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NASA’s Webb Space Telescope shows Jupiter’s auroras, tiny moons!

August 23, 2022 admin

Cape Canaveral, Florida – The world’s newest and largest space telescope shows Jupiter like never before, the aurora borealis and everything. On Monday, scientists released footage of the largest planet in the solar system. The James Webb Space Telescope snapped the images in July, capturing unprecedented views of Jupiter’s northern and southern lights, and the vortex of polar fog. Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, a storm large enough to swallow the Earth, stands out brightly alongside countless smaller storms. One of the wide-field images is particularly exciting, as it shows the…

The Webb Space Telescope captures the Starship Wheel Galaxy in a new image

August 2, 2022 admin

Webb Space Telescope keeps releasing amazing new images with each passing day it works. On Tuesday, NASA revealed a stunning new image of the Cartwheel Galaxy, a huge pink cosmic cloud 500 million light-years away. Scientists, located in the constellation of the Sculptor, believe that the galaxy was once two separate galaxies before the larger one could swallow the smaller one. “We think this galaxy started as a spiral galaxy before it collided with a smaller galaxy hundreds of millions of years ago,” says one of NASA’s social networking sites…

The Webb Telescope may have spotted the first supernova

August 2, 2022 admin

The Webb Space Telescope opens new horizons with each passing day as scientists and astronomers search through data returned by the space observatory. As one group now suggests, the telescope may have already picked up evidence of its first record-breaking supernova, or according to lay people, the death of a star. Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) astronomer Mike Engeser said in a recent interview with inverse. “But it’s one of the things we’re showing that we can do in a kind of customized way.” Engiser and his team have discovered…

The Webb Telescope looks at solar system researchers who think it could harbor life

July 31, 2022 admin

The James Webb Space Telescope has been busy examining the farthest point in space since it officially went live earlier this month. While most images released by NASA and researchers to date feature high-quality images of cosmic entities previously captured by Webb’s ancestors, the observatory has now returned the first confirmed images of the TRAPPIST-1 system. Using data made publicly available by NASA, redditor u/arizonaskies2022 shared the image that they were able to craft the mythical system. Although incredibly pixelated to the untrained eye, the image shows the star system…

New Webb Space Telescope Snapshot Spots Galaxy that looks upside down

July 27, 2022 admin

The James Webb Space Telescope has been in operation for two weeks, and the space observatory is already returning some of the best images we’ve ever seen of the farthest reaches of space. After NASA’s first official disclosure earlier this month, some citizen scientists got their hands on the data captured by Webb and are crafting images of their own. Case in point, Jodi Schmidt shared a recent image she was able to conjure up from data for the “ghost galaxy,” a spiral galaxy about a million miles from Earth.…

NASA Takes New Images of Jupiter Using the Webb Space Telescope

July 16, 2022 admin

NASA has been busy releasing images from the James Webb Space Telescope, taking space enthusiasts on a virtual journey to the edges of the universe. While the first batch of images released included a look at the farthest reaches of the known universe, the outfit recently revealed a shot of something much closer. The space agency on Thursday released an image of the Webb Space Telescope that captures Jupiter and its moon Europa. As you might expect from the planet, the massive Great Red Spot is prominently displayed, swirling in…

Internet excitement about the first photo released

July 12, 2022 admin

After months of anticipation, NASA has officially unveiled the first image captured from the James Webb Space Telescope. The high-resolution image captures hundreds of galaxies that remain in the smallest part of the universe. The image is the best look yet at the cluster of galaxies officials are calling SMACS 0723. The composite image was taken at different wavelengths over a 12-and-a-half hour period, to capture a clearer image than the Hubble Telescope can capture in weeks. Thanks to the rules of science, the light captured in the image appears…

The first image of the James Webb Space Telescope has been released

July 11, 2022 admin

Ahead of a larger event on Tuesday, President Joe Biden unveiled the first image from the James Webb Space Telescope, the most expensive project ever created by NASA. Biden and NASA Administrator Bill Nelson were at the White House Monday afternoon to reveal the image, hailed as humanity’s deepest look at space yet. As Nelson explained in the live broadcast, the image shows galaxies over 13 billion light-years away. This means that yes, it took the light of those galaxies 13 billion years to reach us, which means that we…

NASA Shows Looks At The Universe We’ve Never Seen Before

July 11, 2022 admin

NASA plans to release the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope for weeks. Now, it seems that those interested in the cosmic gadget can expect to see at least one of the images a day early. The space agency announced over the weekend that President Joe Biden will be there to reveal the first image from the Webb Space Telescope at a ceremony at the White House on Monday. The event begins at 5 p.m. EDT on July 11, and the president will reveal the first image taken…

NASA’s Hubble Discovered the Farthest Star Discovered So Far: Earndel

March 31, 2022 admin

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered the most distant star seen so far. The star is more than 12.9 billion light-years away and likely existed within the first billion years after the beginning of the universe. The star system is officially called WHL0137-LS, but it was given the name “Earendel”, which means “morning star” in Old English. While plenty of evidence indicates that Earndel is a star, scientists will have to wait for more data before confirming whether it’s a single star or a group of two or more. The…