"It was so stunning to not just see the auroras, but the detail and clarity of the signature really shocked me."

Long-Sought Auroral Glow Finally Emerges Under Webb’s Powerful Gaze Neptune lies in the cold, dark reaches of the outer edges of our solar system, about 3 billion miles from the Sun, at the farthest edge of the planetary lineup.

Herbig-Haro 49/50, aka the 'Cosmic Tornado', as seen by Spitzer in January 2006. The source of the 'tornado', a Class 1 protostar named CED 110 IRS4, is located beyond the right edge of the image. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/J. Bally (University of Colorado))

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has provided a direct look at the multiple gas giant planets within the iconic planetary system HR 8799. Located 130 light-years away, this system is young—about 30 million years old—and could offer clues on planet formation.

Webb’s exquisite details reveal a chance, random alignment of a protostellar outflow and a distant spiral galaxy. When we observe the universe, we're looking at a three-dimensional space projected onto a two-dimensional image.

Using Webb's instruments, an international team of scientists determined that this galaxy's redshift is 13.0, meaning it was seen just 330 million years after the big bang. The universe's age is estimated to be a little over 13 billion years.

Current science highlights include a report on the extinction risk faced by fungi, vital for ecological balance and human uses, and the James Webb Space Telescope's observation of JADES-GS-z13-1. This galaxy offers clues on the universe's transition from the 'dark ages' soon after the Big Bang.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been a key target for planet formation studies.

For the first time, the James Webb Space Telescope (JSWT) has revealed bright auroral activity on the planet Neptune. Capturing the auroral activity on the ice giant has been long in coming, even though similar areas of trapped solar energetic particles have been successfully imaged in the atmospheres of Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus.

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured a beautiful juxtaposition of the nearby protostellar outflow known as Herbig-Haro 49/50 with a perfectly positioned, more distant spiral galaxy.

Recent findings include the James Webb Space Telescope spotting an ancient galaxy crucial to the universe's early development, Swiss scientists' efforts to partially preserve the largest glacier in the Alps amidst accelerating ice loss,