45K views · 2.3K reactions | Galaxy NGC 4696 is 150 million light-years from Earth and has a "bright core wrapped in system of dark, swirling, thread-like filaments," according to the Space Telescope Science Institute. https://goo.gl/Bhdt42 | Space.com | Facebook

7.1K views · 356 reactions | The NASA's James Webb Space Telescope mission operations team began the first steps in the process of tensioning the first layer of Webb’s sunshield this morning around 10 a.m. EST. It will take the team two to three days to tension the five-layer sunshield. The plan for today is to focus on the first layer, the largest and the one closest to the Sun: https://go.nasa.gov/3zlSndo | Space Telescope Science Institute | Facebook

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Travel through time in this visualization of the Hubble Space Telescope’s Ultra Deep Field. Farther away in space and time, galaxies are smaller and redder. The James Webb Space Telescope is building on Hubble’s deep fields to see light that is even older and redder—from some of the first galaxies ever to form. Together, the two telescopes are revealing more of the universe’s history. Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI. | Space Telescope Science Institute

Explore the universe with the James Webb Space Telescope! Find the latest news and discoveries—as well as NASA-released images—all in one place: https://webbtelescope.org/ | Space Telescope Science Institute

The James Webb Space Telescope has wowed again—showing not one, but FOUR shells of dust in a star system known as Apep for the first time. Previous observatories only detected one. Two aging Wolf-Rayet stars produce and eject these dusty shells (and are shown as a single central pinpoint of light). Researchers using Webb nailed down the stars’ orbit around one another—a lengthy 190 years. The next longest orbit for a Wolf-Rayet binary is about 30 years, and most have orbits between two and 10 ye

Only the James Webb Space Telescope can provide such a detailed view of L1527 IRS—a star still in the process of formation. While the star is shrouded in dust, material has been ejected away from it in an hourglass shape. This is a science visualization of the protostar, which was observed by Webb in 2022. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Ralf Crawford, Leah Hustak, Alyssa Pagan, Frank Summers, Greg Bacon (Space Telescope Science Institute). | Space Telescope Science Institute