These remarkable James Webb Space Telescope images show stars, galaxies, and space in all their sparkling glory.
The warped, fisheye-like effect in this image is the result of what’s called gravitational lensing. A massive object in the foreground—a cluster of galaxies—is distorting the space-time around it. As light travels through that warp toward JWST, it bends, causing the appearance of streaks and arcs.JWST’s Mid-infrared Instrument can sense the gas patterns, arranged here like the strands of a cobweb, within a galactic structure.
JWST’s Near-Infrared Camera captured our solar system’s glowing gas giant, whose rings shine a million times fainter than the planet itself.In the first publicly released image taken by JWST, the galaxy cluster known as SMACS 0723 is a swarm of stars and spirals. Thanks to the lensing effects of gravity, JWST was able to detect super-distant galaxies—some shown here are from the universe’s first billion years.Life as we know would be impossible without the element carbon.
NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, M. Tiscareno , M. Hedman , M. El Moutamid , M. Showalter , L. Fletcher , H. Hammel ; image processing by J. DePasquale This protostar is a hot mass of gas that’s drawn into a central core. Once that core is sufficiently dense and scorching, it will trigger nuclear fusion, becoming a sun.This unevenly shaped galaxy, about the same size as the Milky Way, shows the scars of a collision.
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