From 16:30, NASA will publish new stunning images of the distant universe. The $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope – the successor to the famous Hubble Space Telescope – is taking pictures of the first stars in the universe.
This was the first color photograph taken by James Webb and released to the public.
“We can get to places no one’s been to before,” said US President Joe Biden, whose photo was shown at a White House news conference. The following images will show details of a cluster of stars, a ball of gas around a dying star, and a “cosmic dance” among a group of galaxies, according to a report. BBC.
The first color photo has been published
The image is said to be the deepest and most detailed infrared image of the universe to date, containing light from galaxies that took billions of years to reach us.
NASA will release more images that first appeared from James Webb in a presentation on Tuesday. The $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which launched last December 25, has been announced as the successor to the famous Hubble Space Telescope. It will perform all kinds of sky observations, but it has two overarching goals. The first is to take pictures of the first stars in the universe, which shone more than 13.5 billion years ago; The other is to examine distant planets to see if they are habitable.
The presented image can achieve the first goal. What they’re seeing is a cluster of galaxies in the southern hemisphere of the Volan constellation called SMACS 0723. In fact, the cluster itself isn’t very far—”only” about 4.6 billion light-years away.
NASA on Tuesday Streaming onlineTo view more images of the new telescope. The presentation can also be seen on the European Space Agency’s TV web channel.
