James Webb Space Telescope reveals that most galaxies rotate clockwise(smithsonianmag.com)

333 points by instagraham 1 year ago | 276 comments

Smithsonian Magazine Smart News article on a JWST-based study finding most distant galaxies rotate clockwise, with possible explanations including a black-hole universe.

JWST reveals its first direct image discovery of an exoplanet(smithsonianmag.com)

319 points by divbzero 1 year ago | 138 comments

Smithsonian magazine article on the James Webb Space Telescope's first exoplanet discovery via direct imaging, made by blocking the host star's glare.

Earth's organisms developed via evolution. What if the cosmos did, too?(smithsonianmag.com)

62 points by JulianPGough 1 month ago | 44 comments

Images of gamma-ray flare from supermassive black hole M87(newsroom.ucla.edu)

47 points by gmays 1 year ago | 9 comments

The Webb Telescope further deepens the Hubble tension controversy in cosmology(quantamagazine.org)

327 points by nsoonhui 2 years ago | 321 comments

Quanta Magazine article on a long-awaited James Webb Space Telescope study of the cosmic expansion rate that deepens the Hubble tension in cosmology.

The Biggest-Ever Digital Camera Is This Cosmologist's Magnum Opus(quantamagazine.org)

9 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 0 comments