Webb’s 11-Hour Stare Catches Carbon Swings on a Rogue Brown Dwarf

Webb’s 11-Hour Stare Catches Carbon Swings on a Rogue Brown Dwarf

Twenty-seven researchers, led by the University of Arizona’s Steward Observatory, used the James Webb Space Telescope for eleven uninterrupted hours to study WISE 0855, the coldest known object outside the Solar System. They report irregular water clouds that thicken and thin; the work is accepted by The Astronomical Journal and posted as a preprint. The … Read more

Webb Finds a Lone Emission Line With No Visible Source in Ultra Deep Field

Webb Finds a Lone Emission Line With No Visible Source in Ultra Deep Field

A sixteen-member team led by the University of Minnesota has used the James Webb Space Telescope to detect a single near-infrared emission line in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field where even the deepest images show no catalogued object. Published on 22 September in The Astrophysical Journal, the finding is a study in elimination: nine possible … Read more