The James Webb Space Telescope has taken its first direct image of a planet in a distant star system nearly 400 light years away, producing an image with a clarity that exceeds JWST’s designers’ expectations by about ten times. HIP 65426 b is a Jupiter-sized gas planet 385 light years awayread more

The James Webb Space Telescope is just weeks away from commencing its gathering of scientific data in earnest—already, the high-flying observatory has discovered a handful of distant galaxies while it was merely being calibrated—a mission that will allow astronomers to peer far deeper into the universe than ever before. But anotherread more