That question mark, our profound cosmic ignorance, is one of the great gifts of science. Dennis Overbye joined The Times in 1998, and has been a reporter since 2001.

Two of our galaxy’s most famous stars were recently photobombed by what appears to be a celestial question mark. The symbol was spotted in a new image from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST ...

SPACE – A new photo from the James Webb Space Telescope is leading to a giant question – or moreover one about a giant question mark.The photo was released by the European Space Agency on July 26.

The question mark can be found near the bottom-center of the image. (Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, J. DePasquale (STScI), CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO) The James Webb Space Telescope recently celebrated one year of ...

A cosmic object in the shape of a glowing question mark has photobombed one of the latest images captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope — and scientists think they know what it might be ...

Their interactions may have caused the distorted question mark-shape,” representatives of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, which manages the telescope’s science operations ...

In August 2023, an image of outer space went viral on social media because it allegedly documented a mysterious formation in the shape of a "question mark." NASA's James Webb telescope has spotted ...

So, the curved shape that made the question mark could be a tidal tail. The image taken by the telescope, released last month, shows Herbig-Haro 46/47, which is a star forming cloud, Caplan explained.

Experts in the UK say the question mark is perhaps less cryptic than it appears - and could simply show two merging galaxies, with one being stretched out by the gravity of the other.

A stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a pair of actively forming stars. But many people are more curious about the tiny question mark visible toward the bottom of the frame.

The image, released last week, shows Herbig-Haro 46/47, and an apparent question mark in deep space (as shown by yellow indicators at bottom center) Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, Gizmodo The unexpected ...