Technical Trivia: Which of these techniques involve placing a specially designed mask with several small pinholes in the light path through a telescope? A: Coronagraphy B: Aperture masking interferometry C: Integral Field Unit Spectroscopy D: Multi-Object Spectroscopy

Who doesn't love a good mystery?! 🔍🔴 Little Red Dots (LRD), first detected by Webb, are very distant, seemed to emerge ~600 million years/mysteriously decline by ~1.5 billion years post-big bang. What if they didn’t disappear, they just evolved? t.co/wjGjkeZYE7 🔗 go.nasa.gov/4h44W5g

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Wake up, babe! There’s a new planet around Beta Pictoris! Webb spotted a new giant planet hiding in one of the most studied planetary systems in our galaxy. t.co/WDsrOd2kpA 🔗 science.nasa.gov/missions/w...

Four years of Webb science! And what a time it has been! We've learned so much about our universe and ourselves. Here are some of our favorite images and most interesting science results!

Four years of Webb science! And what a time it has been! We've learned so much about our universe and ourselves. Here are some of our favorite images and most interesting science results!

Galaxy cluster formation is a messy process! Webb captured the formation of this young galaxy cluster in progress. Its two-sub-clusters have slammed through each other and travelled over a million light-years apart, repeating this process until they finally merge.

Many of the glowing red points in the MIRI image are dust-rich stars or stellar nurseries. Dust is a raw ingredient for new stars and planets and vital to the ongoing life cycle of the galaxy. At the heart of the galaxy, an actively feeding supermassive black hole shines brightly, surrounded by...

July 12th is Webb’s 4th science anniversary! When we dive deeper into the familiar galaxy Centaurus A, our view becomes richer and stranger— a vivid record of cosmic history. t.co/lUTv8fE451 🔗 go.nasa.gov/4wvZJYr

Gonna shine across that sky 🎶 In the infrared, Webb reveals bright protostars flowering from within the thick dust of the FS Tau star system. Set against a tapestry of background galaxies, this star-forming nebula is home to baby stars. t.co/5iBJPkLfCi 🔗 science.nasa.gov/missions/w...

You’re a spark in the dark 🎶 Webb looked at gas giant planet WD 1856 b, which closely orbits a white dwarf - the remains of a Sun-like star. Did it survive the death of its star or did it migrate to its current location later? t.co/zxmzpMe0r5 🔗 science.nasa.gov/missions/w...

Webb’s new view of M82, added to archival data from @NASAHubble, is giving us a more complete picture of this starburst galaxy. t.co/hbHTnt7Ujv 🔗 science.nasa.gov/missions/w...

You might have heard of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. We don't get the opportunity to study objects like this often. Webb took a look at the comet's composition. It's showing us how unusual our own solar system might be. Here's what we've learned 👇

One well-done gas giant planet, coming right up! Webb examined a “hot Jupiter” exoplanet called HD 80606 b, with four times Jupiter’s mass, and a very elliptical orbit that sweeps close by its Sun-like star. t.co/X3s69WG4qQ 🔗 go.nasa.gov/3QtN6xr

Webb teamed up with @NASAHubble to examine a relic from our galaxy’s formation. This object might look like a globular cluster of stars, but is actually something much odder and rarer - a “bulge fossil fragment.” t.co/5isHyQ92aV 🔗 science.nasa.gov/missions/w...

Go far and wide with @NASARoman! NASA’s next space telescope will be joining Webb in L2, a million miles away to join us and your name can come too! Get your boarding pass to send your name with Roman as we work to create the most complete picture of the univer... 🔗 my.nasa.gov/specialevents/s...

Webb has delivered the strongest evidence yet that its discovery of mysterious Little Red Dots (LRD) are “black hole stars.” They appear starting ~600 million years after the big bang, and scientists are still working out exactly what they are. t.co/MIEwfifyzi 🔗 science.nasa.gov/missions/w...

Beyond the Orion Nebula is a long and massive filament of cold gas and dust divided into four parts and collectively called the Orion Molecular Clouds. This image shows just a small portion of one of the clouds. t.co/N5ahKPVSJO 🔗 esawebb.org/images/potm2605a/

Webb is looking at the chemical fingerprints of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS in the mid-infrared 🔎 New data points to a very different formation environment and chemistry for this object compared to most comets that formed in our own solar system. t.co/6xJl3L6W9K 🔗 science.nasa.gov/blogs/3iat...

Which came first, galaxies or black holes? New Webb observations show that some supermassive black holes were enormous from their beginnings, shifting traditional ideas around how black holes form and grow. t.co/YNSs2QIFbu 🔗 go.nasa.gov/4vaEASC

To MoM-z14 & back! 💐 Let a caregiver in your life know your appreciation for them reaches the farthest galaxy ever detected! Read more about MoM-z14: t.co/ejbBjLSlQr 🔗 go.nasa.gov/4d1kt3l

Don’t let anyone dull your shine 💫 The heart of galaxy M77 nearly outshines the galaxy itself in this mid-infrared Webb image. Gas rapidly orbits the central black hole, heating up, and radiating light. t.co/LDOGmXEytb 🔗 esawebb.org/images/potm2604a/

We won both the Webby and People's Voice awards for best education and science social campaigns in @TheWebbyAwards! Saying we're grateful for you all doesn't even scratch the surface! Thank you so much for following, engaging, and voting!💗 t.co/D70y4d2vWW 🔗 winners.webbyawards.com/202...

Shine, dream, smile! Oh, let us light up the night… with a pair of new stars, and maybe some planets! Webb captured edge-on views of two protoplanetary disks, which will help us better understand the process of planet formation. t.co/kxzH0WR3Uu 🔗 esawebb.org/images/potm2603a/

The end is near! The fate of this nebula's central star and Webby voting is the same, both reaching the end. There are a few hours left to get your Webby vote in! Voting ends tonight (Thursday, April 16) at 11:59 PM PDT. Click here to submit yours: t.co/H77VV0SoUd 🔗 vote.webbyawards.com/Public...

There's still one more day to cast your vote in @TheWebbyAwards! If you've enjoyed unfolding the universe with us this year, vote here: t.co/H77VV0SoUd To MoM-z14 and back 💞 🔗 vote.webbyawards.com/Public...

Wait, there's more Webb in this year's @TheWebbyAwards! Vote for Cosmic Dawn as the best longform documentary by Thursday, April 16: t.co/PDnjMJrZPp 🔗 vote.webbyawards.com/Public...

Webb directly imaged 29 Cygni b, an object 15 times the mass of Jupiter, to find out if it formed like a planet or a star, since they result from different processes. Data show it's a planet! t.co/K48elMpcRs 🔗 science.nasa.gov/missions/w...

There’s nothing we love more than sharing the universe with you all. If you feel the same, vote for us in @TheWebbyAwards by Thursday, April 16! Vote here: t.co/H77VV0SoUd 🔗 vote.webbyawards.com/Public...

Nature’s magnifying glass 🔎 Galaxies in these images might look stretched or warped. That’s due to gravitational lensing, a tool that allows us to peer even further into the universe! https://go.nasa.gov/3KLgN9Y https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G2GJ7ibW0AA2ZMm.jpg