Essay: James Webb telescope – a scientist explains what its first, amazing images show, and how it will change astronomy

Following the release of the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope this week, MARTIN BARSTOW, professor of astrophyics and space science at the University of Leicester, explains – in an article first published on The Conversation – what they show…
Biden releases first image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope

US President Joe Biden unveiled the first image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope in an event at the White House on Monday. The image – which covers a patch of sky approximately the size of a grain of sand held at arm’s length by someone on the ground – reveals thousands of galaxies and provides the […]