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Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, a team led by the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has identified a previously ...
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) last around a millisecond, and in doing so, encode otherwise unattainable information on the plasma ...
At just about 10 km (6 miles) in diameter, S/2025 U1 is incredibly small as far as moons go; it’s so tiny that Voyager 2, ...
Tiny Moon NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a tiny moon orbiting Uranus, expanding the number of the planet's ...
NASA confirmed that the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) on Webb detected a faint, brief point of light in a series of ten ...
The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) reveals a stunning view of star-forming region Sagittarius C ...
There’s probably a lot more of them and we just need to keep looking,” said Matthew Tiscareno, a senior research scientist at ...
NIRCam is capable of taking images of the 18 primary mirror segments, and it generated the selfie for engineering and alignment purposes, NASA said on its blog Friday (Feb. 11).
NIRCam’s resolution is able to detect tiny knots of gas, comprised of sulfur, oxygen, argon and neon from the star itself.
Webb’s latest challenge was a trial run of the Near Infrared Camera, or NIRCam, identifying dots of starlight from the same star in each of the 18 hexagonal segments of its massive mirror.
Jupiter has rings! Jupiter and some of its moons—and its rings—are seen through NIRCam’s 3.23 micron filter. NASA, ESA, CSA, and B. Holler and J. Stansberry (STScI) ...
NIRCam (Near Infrared Camera) is one of four science instruments on board Webb. Responsible for doing a lot of the cutting-edge science, NIRCam can detect infrared light from the earliest stars ...