Conceptual image showing the Universe's galaxies reflected in the mirror of the James Webb Space Telescope. JWST is expected to peer deeper into the cosmos than ever before, potentially revolutionising some of our understanding of it....

... he other) through the ‘transit’ method, when the planet is in front of its star. Working on a relatively small (2-metre) telescope, the instrument aims to explain the 'Neptunian desert' - an apparent dearth of Neptune-sized planets at short orbit ...

From a NOIRLab press releases, for which this image was commissioned: 'Astronomers studying a powerful gamma-ray burst (GRB) with the Gemini South telescope, operated by NSF’s NOIRLab, may have detected a never-before-seen way to destroy a star. Un...