New images from the James Webb Space Telescope show a look at distant galaxies
A new batch of stunning photos from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope was released Tuesday, providing a never-before-seen window into the universe and its myriad galaxies.
A new batch of stunning photos from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope was released Tuesday, providing a never-before-seen window into the universe and its myriad galaxies.
President Biden released the first image from the $10 billion telescope on Monday, stunning Americans with images of light from the oldest galaxies dating back more than 13 million years.
New images from the James Webb Space Telescope show a look at distant galaxies
✋🏼 Galactic high five!
In Webb’s image of Stephan’s Quintet, we see 5 galaxies, 4 of which interact. (The left galaxy is in the foreground!) Webb will revolutionize our knowledge of star formation & gas interactions in these galaxies: https://t.co/tlougFWg8B #UnfoldTheUniverse pic.twitter.com/b2kH1tSyMs
— NASA Webb Telescope (@NASAWebb) July 12, 2022
In one, NASA’s Webb captured the final “performance” of a dying star in incredible detail. The telescope shows the star in the South Ring Nebula surrounded by a massive circle of gas.
Webb remarkably located an exoplanet more than 1,000 light-years away that showed evidence of water vapor in the planet’s atmosphere, the Space Telescope Science Institute said.
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The telescope was deployed on Christmas Day last year and is already a million miles from Earth. It was launched from French Guiana in South America, and is the largest and most powerful of its kind ever used.
In another image released Tuesday, the machine showed five galaxies called Stephan’s Quintet, and four of them interact with each other. Galaxies push and pull on each other with gravity, NASA said.
Put a ring on it! 💍
Compare views of the Southern Ring nebula and its pair of stars by Webb’s NIRCam (L) & MIRI (R) instruments. The dimmer, dying star is expelling gas and dust that Webb sees through in unprecedented detail: https://t.co/tlougFWg8B #UnfoldTheUniverse pic.twitter.com/yOMMmQcAfA
— NASA Webb Telescope (@NASAWebb) July 12, 2022
Webb’s images represent a new era of space exploration, as the telescope succeeds the Hubble Space Telescope and provides new images of the cosmos in much greater detail.
“Six and a half months ago, a rocket carrying the world’s newest and most powerful deep space telescope was launched from Earth on a 1 million-mile journey into the cosmos,” Biden said Monday.
“Taken together, it’s a new window into the history of our universe. Today we are going to take a look at the first light shining through that window. Light from other worlds, stars orbiting far beyond our own, amazes me,” he added.
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