New year, new milestone: A cosmic quirk of nature has allowed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to capture images of 44 individual ... soon-to-explode — Betelgeuse perched on the right ...

CfA's Sun found this treasure trove of stars while inspecting JWST images of a galaxy known as ... that many are red supergiants, similar to Betelgeuse in the constellation of Orion, which is ...

It can seem like JWST arrived out of nowhere, but the telescope has been the collective effort of tens of thousands of scientists over decades. Here are some of this year’s best new images.