NASA Webb Telescope

@NASAWebb

The Official *NASA* Webb X account. The world's most powerful space telescope. Launched: Dec. 25, 2021. First images revealed: July 12, 2022.

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#1
Happy Halloween! 👻 Like a spectral form rising out of a cold mist, @NASAHubble and Webb have captured a hauntingly dynamic star-forming scene, which lies within the vast Carina Ne…
NASA Webb Telescope @NASAWebb · 6 小时前
#2
Pspspsp! Just in time for Halloween, NASA’s Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes recently stared at an eerie star-forming scene within the Carina Nebula, a massive gas and dust…
NASA Webb Telescope @NASAWebb · 1 天前
#3
Rest easy, Captain. We have the helm. ✨ This is Webb’s look at Westerlund 1, a super star cluster. Because our galaxy is past its peak of star formation, and because stars live re…
NASA Webb Telescope @NASAWebb · 1 天前
#4
Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble 🧙‍♀️ This turbulent cauldron of star formation, N159, resides about 161,000 light years away in the Large Magellanic…
NASA Webb Telescope @NASAWebb · 2026-10-22
#5
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) - enigmatic, millisecond-long flashes of radio emission from the distant universe - were first discovered in 2007. Their origins are difficult to pinpoint…
NASA Webb Telescope @NASAWebb · 2026-10-08
#6
Brewing up new stars 🪄 Webb’s unique view of the stellar nursery known as NGC 7129 reveals numerous stars formerly hidden in this cosmic cauldron, helping astronomers study the st…
NASA Webb Telescope @NASAWebb · 2026-10-06
#7
They say planet formation’s a cruel endeavor Violent collisions, like that between a proto-Earth and a Mars-sized object named Theia 4.5 billion years ago, shaped our home planet.…
NASA Webb Telescope @NASAWebb · 2026-10-01
#8
Seeing double… or quadruple! 👀 In this Webb image of galaxy cluster MACS J0454.1-0300, gravitational lensing shows us 4 or more images of the same galaxy. This is the first time r…
NASA Webb Telescope @NASAWebb · 2026-09-29