Tag: NIRCAM

The supernova remnant SN 1987A observed by the James Webb Space Telescope

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The James Webb Space Telescope, the flagship observatory of NASA/ESA/CSA, has turned its gaze toward the supernova remnant SN 1987A, revealing its structure with an unprecedented level of detail.   About 400 years after Kepler supernova, which exploded in 1604, the skies of the southern hemisphere witnessed another supernova relatively close to us. This was SN 1987A, which exploded on

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The program “Testing protoplanetary disk evolution and brown dwarf formation in starburst: NIRCAM and MIRI observations of the young cluster Westerlund 1” of M. G. Guarcello (INAF – OAPA) is among the accepted proposals of the JWST Cycle 1

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The James Webb Telescope (JWST) will be the most complex and powerful telescope ever launched into space. Built by a consortium formed by NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), thanks to its primary mirror with a diameter of 6.5 meters (for comparison, the mirror of the Hubble Space Telescope has a diameter of 2.5 meters) and its four

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