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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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 Cloud, one of the satellite galaxies orbiting our Milky Way.
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With its quick reflexes, flexible scheduling, and multiwavelength vision, our Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has made discoveries with nearly every NASA space telescope during its 22 years in space.
As the mission winds down, let’s see how Swift’s collaborations have helped us unravel the mysteries of the cosmos.
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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, but Webb found the host galaxy to the most distant FRB seen to date.
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Happy World Space Week!
If you're searching up space facts today, you might run into our newest image! 👇
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 star lifecycle in more depth.
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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 star lifecycle in more depth.
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Free downloadable mini poster of Webb's look at Centaurus A!
Scientists used Webb and @NASAHubble to study some of the most far-flung bodies in our solar system, Trans-Neptunian Objects, unexpectedly finding that the number and colors followed the same relationships as their larger family members.
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How close is too close to a black hole? Asking for a friend. 😬
Webb just revealed dust and water surviving in the extreme environment of a star located near our Milky Way's supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*!
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Like a collage made of layered sheets of colored cellophane, a vibrant new image layers observations of the Tarantula Nebula from NASA's Chandra (blue), Hubble (green), and Webb (red). More:
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Take a deep dive into some mysterious space rabbit holes, curated by us, for you. Bizarre enough to keep you locked in, and it all starts at
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#ThrowbackThursday# to #JWST#'s test telescope structure, about to head off to @NASA_Johnson for cryo testing! #TBT#
