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James Webb Space Telescope pics
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RE: James Webb Space Telescope pics
Some more pics?
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Stephan’s Quintet, a visual grouping of five galaxies, is best known for being prominently featured in the holiday classic film, “It’s a Wonderful Life.” Today, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reveals Stephan’s Quintet in a new light. This enormous mosaic is Webb’s largest image to date, covering about one-fifth of the Moon’s diameter. It contains over 150 million pixels and is constructed from almost 1,000 separate image files. The information from Webb provides new insights into how galactic interactions may have driven galaxy evolution in the early universe.

With its powerful, infrared vision and extremely high spatial resolution, Webb shows never-before-seen details in this galaxy group. Sparkling clusters of millions of young stars and starburst regions of fresh star birth grace the image. Sweeping tails of gas, dust and stars are being pulled from several of the galaxies due to gravitational interactions. Most dramatically, Webb captures huge shock waves as one of the galaxies, NGC 7318B, smashes through the cluster.
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This landscape of “mountains” and “valleys” speckled with glittering stars is actually the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region called NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. Captured in infrared light by NASA’s new James Webb Space Telescope, this image reveals for the first time previously invisible areas of star birth.

Called the Cosmic Cliffs, Webb’s seemingly three-dimensional picture looks like craggy mountains on a moonlit evening. In reality, it is the edge of the giant, gaseous cavity within NGC 3324, and the tallest “peaks” in this image are about 7 light-years high. The cavernous area has been carved from the nebula by the intense ultraviolet radiation and stellar winds from extremely massive, hot, young stars located in the center of the bubble, above the area shown in this image.
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Some stars save the best for last.

The dimmer star at the center of this scene has been sending out rings of gas and dust for thousands of years in all directions, and NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed for the first time that this star is cloaked in dust.

Two cameras aboard Webb captured the latest image of this planetary nebula, cataloged as NGC 3132, and known informally as the Southern Ring Nebula. It is approximately 2,500 light-years away.

Webb will allow astronomers to dig into many more specifics about planetary nebulae like this one – clouds of gas and dust expelled by dying stars. Understanding which molecules are present, and where they lie throughout the shells of gas and dust will help researchers refine their knowledge of these objects.
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James Webb Space Telescope pics - by pocaracas - July 12, 2022 at 9:47 am
RE: James Webb Space Telescope pics - by Anomalocaris - July 12, 2022 at 10:37 am
RE: James Webb Space Telescope pics - by polymath257 - July 12, 2022 at 10:42 am
RE: James Webb Space Telescope pics - by pocaracas - July 12, 2022 at 10:53 am
RE: James Webb Space Telescope pics - by polymath257 - July 12, 2022 at 11:03 am
RE: James Webb Space Telescope pics - by zebo-the-fat - July 12, 2022 at 11:01 am
RE: James Webb Space Telescope pics - by Pat Mustard - July 13, 2022 at 5:05 am
RE: James Webb Space Telescope pics - by pocaracas - July 12, 2022 at 4:24 pm
RE: James Webb Space Telescope pics - by Jehanne - July 12, 2022 at 7:54 pm
RE: James Webb Space Telescope pics - by Deesse23 - July 13, 2022 at 2:07 am
RE: James Webb Space Telescope pics - by pocaracas - July 13, 2022 at 7:07 am
RE: James Webb Space Telescope pics - by polymath257 - July 13, 2022 at 9:04 am
RE: James Webb Space Telescope pics - by Jehanne - July 13, 2022 at 7:01 am
RE: James Webb Space Telescope pics - by Jehanne - July 13, 2022 at 9:35 am
RE: James Webb Space Telescope pics - by Anomalocaris - July 13, 2022 at 1:59 pm
RE: James Webb Space Telescope pics - by zebo-the-fat - July 13, 2022 at 2:38 pm
RE: James Webb Space Telescope pics - by Jehanne - July 16, 2022 at 2:57 pm
RE: James Webb Space Telescope pics - by Fake Messiah - December 8, 2022 at 3:00 am

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