Hubble Space Telescope

Scientists have observed swirling motions of clouds of sand in the atmosphere of a distant planet, having a 22-hour day and orbiting two stars over a 10,000-year period. The international team of researchers, including those from the University of Exeter, UK, made the discovery using data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The researchers used the state-of-the-art telescope to study the motions of the clouds which were bringing hotter material up and pushing colder material down on the planetary mass companion VHS 1256 b, about 40 light-years away from Earth. Identifying for the first time the largest ever number of molecules at once on a planet outside our solar system, the team also discovered clear detections of water, methane and carbon monoxide with Webb's data, and found evidence of carbon dioxide. The study is published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. "This result speaks to the incredible combination of capabilities that is offered by JWST, and a huge amou

For the first time, Webb and Hubble have simultaneously captured imagery from the same target in the cosmos

The giant telescope shall also try to identify supermassive black holes that sit at the centre of almost every large galaxy

Thirty years, $8.8 billion, multiple mishaps and budget crises and a threatened congressional cancellation later, the James Webb Space Telescope is finally ready

They also found that the halo has a layered structure, with two main nested and distinct shells of gas. This is the most comprehensive study of a halo surrounding a galaxy

The team was looking for answers about when and how the first stars and galaxies in the universe were formed after the Big Bang

The telescope was put into safe mode and suspended its science collection activities on October 5 while Earth-based engineers tried to fix the problem