Meanwhile, distant galaxies glimmer in the background of the image ... when NASA's now-retired Spitzer Space Telescope observed the Sombrero galaxy, the outer ring appeared smooth, but Webb's ...

A trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded ...

The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...