How do images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) appear so colorful, and where do the colors come from?

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is known for looking deep ... these objects would have existed as they appeared in the deep-field image. Are JWST images 'real'? The colors in JWST's images ...

The marvelous telescope made "Hubble" a household word, synonymous with wonderous astronomy. Today, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope pushes the frontiers of knowledge over 10 times farther than Edwin ...

What better way to end than with some examples of said beauty and utility? After all that reading, we'll leave you with a few glamour shots of our favorite nebula: Messier 16, better known as the ...

Astronomers are celebrating the completion of a 2.5-billion-pixel panoramic picture of the entire Andromeda Galaxy. The team includes several UC Santa Cruz researchers who made significant ...

Cosmic Leviathan: A galaxy cluster, resembling a submerged sea monster, distorts spacetime around it, as captured by the ...

Released in December 2011, this vibrant Hubble image was created by combining visible and near-infrared light collected by the telescope's Wide Field Camera 3. The light emitted by hot hydrogen ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is known for looking deep into the universe with an ... you might see something that resembles the images from telescopes that see the universe visual light, like the ...