Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. NASA’s James Webb SpaceTelescope (JWST) has been hit by a micrometeoroid, which has damaged one of the 18 beryllium-gold ...
Nov. 12, 2024 — The standard model for how galaxies formed in the early universe predicted that the James Webb SpaceTelescope (JWST) would see dim signals from small, primitive galaxies.
From its halo-like orbit nearly a million miles from Earth, the James Webb SpaceTelescope is seeing farther than human eyes have ever seen. In May, astronomers announced that Webb detected the ...