NASA shows amazing cosmic images of newborn stars and spinning galaxies
The $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope’s first image, a tangle of far-off galaxies that reached farther into the universe than humanity has ever seen.
On Tuesday, NASA presented a fresh set of photographs taken with its brand-new, very effective space telescope, among them a frothy blue and orange photograph of a dying star.
The $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope’s first image, a tangle of far-off galaxies that reached farther into the universe than humanity has ever seen, was shown Monday at the White House.
More views of cosmic beauty were included in the four more images that were made public on Tuesday.
The most recent photos, with one exception, revealed regions of the cosmos visible to other telescopes. However, Webb’s enormous power, remote location from Earth, and use of the ir led spectrum revealed them in a fresh way.
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson gushed over photographs showing “the creation of stars, consuming black holes” on Tuesday, saying that “each image is a fresh discovery and it will give mankind a vision of the humanity that we’ve never seen before.”
The telescope can see through the cosmic dust because of Webb’s usage of the infrared light spectrum, which enables it to “see light from remote light from the corners of the cosmos,” he added.
According to Josef Aschbacher, director general of the European Space Agency, “We’ve fundamentally transformed the knowledge of our cosmos.”
Together with NASA, the space agencies of Europe and Canada built the robust telescope.
NASA has unveiled a batch of images from its James Webb Space Telescope, offering the deepest look of the cosmos yet.
This new image of the Carina Nebula "reveals for the first time previously invisible areas of star birth," according to the agency. https://t.co/zbgwPm6aHR pic.twitter.com/RN5XmijdF3
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The Southern Ring Nebula, often known as “eight-burst.” It displays an increasing cloud of gas encircling a dying star some 2,500 light-years distant. 5.8 trillion miles make up a light-year.
The 7,600 light-year-distance Carina Nebula, one of the bright star nurseries in the sky.
Five galaxies 290 million light-years distant performing a cosmic jive. 225 years ago, the constellation Pegasus provided the first sighting of Stephan’s Quintet.
The WASP-96b planet, a blue-green giant. It is 1,150 light-years distant and around Saturn’s size. It is a gas planet and not a prospect for life elsewhere, but scientists have set it as a top target.
At a NASA Goddard Space Center celebration where cheerleaders wore pompoms matching the colour of the telescope’s golden mirrors, the photographs were unveiled one at a time.
The world’s biggest and most powerful space telescope was started up from French Guiana in South America in December. It travelled 1.6 million miles to reach its observation point in January. The difficult task of aligning the mirror, getting the infrared detectors cold enough to operate, and calibrating the science apparatus then began beneath the protection of a parasol the size of a tennis court which keeps the telescope cool.
