The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered not one, but two of the earliest and most distant galaxies ever seen, continuing to break the records it previously set. The most distant galaxy, JADES-GS-z14-0, is seen as it was about 300 million years after the Big Bang, existing at least 100 million years earlier than … Read more
Space flight doesn’t usually come to mind when you think of the quiet, green mountains of North Carolina. It is true that, in the early 1960s, NASA built the (now defunct) Rosman Satellite Tracking and Data Acquisition facility among the rolling hills of Appalachia to track Soviet satellites and relay communications for the Gemini and … Read more
Dwarf galaxy NGC 4449 is the star of the show The James Webb Space Telescopehis latest cosmic portrait. Located 12.5 million light-years away in the constellation of Canes Venatici, the Hunting Dogs, NGC 4449 has a lot in common with our own. Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), orbiting satellite galaxy Milky Way. Both are small and … Read more