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James Webb Space Telescope Sees Features Astronomers Have Yet to Explain


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Give Become a memberWall of HonorWays to giveHost an Event The full view of the James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) instrument reveals a 50 light-years-wide portion of the Milky Way’s center. On September 24, 2023, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft’s sample return capsule parachuted into the Utah desert, carrying precious material it had collected three years earlier from Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid more than 1,600 feet in diameter. The canister carrying asteroid particles inside a glovebox at Goddard Space Flight Center.Earlier generations of scientists who wanted to conduct direct analysis of the rocky objects in our solar system had to rely on meteorites that fell haphazardly to Earth.

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