6 Mind Blowing Images By NASA's James Webb Space Telescope

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the largest and most powerful space telescope to date. It is taking amazing photos of celestial objects. Check out 6 amazing images captured by JWST in 2024.

Medha Jha | Jul 08, 2024, 14:42 PM IST
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1. Gravitationally Lensed Quasar

Four images of a quasar appear due to gravitational lensing. Quasar looks like an arc with four bright spots.

 

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2. Celestial Fireworks Around Forming Star

Webb captured a protostar, only 100,000 years old. Protostar is hidden in a gas and dust cloud shaped like an hourglass.

 

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3. Galaxy Cluster SPT-CL J0615−5746

Webb discovered gravitationally bound star clusters in a galaxy from 460 million years after the Big Bang.

 

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4. First-of-Its-Kind Detection:

Webb captured aligned protostellar outflows for the first time. Bright red streaks indicate jets of gas from newborn stars.

 

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5. Origins of the Crab Nebula

This image showcases high-resolution mapping of light emitted from the dust in the Crab Nebula.

 

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6. Supernova Science

 Webb identified 10 times more supernovae in the early universe than previously known.

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