Little red dots are a class of small, red-tinted astronomical objects with unexpected characteristics observed using the James Webb Space Telescope. First reported in a preprint in June 2023 and first
The little red dot J1148-18404 (center) in false color, located about 12.6 billion light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major.
RUBIES footprint of 18 NIRSpec/MSA pointings in the UDS and EGS fields. Purple pointings correspond to the first half of observations in January to March 2024. Background images show the NIRCam F444W image mosaics, primarily constructed from public imaging of the CEERS and PRIMER surveys. The outline of the PRIMER MIRI imaging footprint for the UDS is shown in pink.
NIRSpec/PRISM spectrum of The Cliff. The orange points show NIRCam and MIRI photometry.
An artist's impression of a black-hole star
The James Webb Space Telescope is a space telescope designed to conduct infrared astronomy. It is the largest telescope in space, and is equipped with high-resolution and high-sensitivity instruments,
Little Red Dots
…Little red dots (LRDs) are a class of small, red-tinted astronomical objects with unexpected characteristics observed using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). First reported in a preprint in June 2023 and first published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal in March 2024, they appear to have existed…
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Test unit of the sunshield stacked and expanded at the Northrop Grumman facility in California, 2014
Engineers cleaning a test mirror with carbon dioxide snow, 2015