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Webb captures galaxies merging through shroud of dust

October 31, 2022October 31, 2022cpooldigitalLeave a Comment

The European Space Agency (ESA) recently released an image taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, showing two galaxies plunging into one another in a galactic merger. The galactic merger is named IC 1623 and lies around 270 million light-years away from us in the constellation Cetus. Starburst caused by galactic merger By colliding into […]

Webb captures ‘unprecedented’ image of galaxies merging near supermassive black hole

October 27, 2022October 27, 2022cpooldigitalLeave a Comment

According to Johns Hopkins University, this image offers an “unprecedented opportunity to observe how billions of years ago galaxies coalesced into the modern universe.” “We think something dramatic is about to happen in these systems. The galaxy is at this perfect moment in its lifetime, about to transform and look entirely different in a few […]

James Webb Space Telescope captures Orion nebula and its young, hot, massive stars

September 14, 2022September 14, 2022cpooldigitalLeave a Comment

James Webb Space Telescope captured this image of the Orion nebula young stars cocooned by disks of gas and dust. The image is actually a composite of several filters which represent emissions from ionised gas, hydrocarbons, molecular gas, dust and scattered starlight. It was released by the PDSRs4ALL international team of astronomers. The full image […]

Listen to James Webb Space Telescope’s first images translated into sound

September 1, 2022September 1, 2022cpooldigitalLeave a Comment

A team of scientists, musicians and a member of the visually impaired community have collaborated to adapt data from the James Webb Space Telescope and translate its first images into sound. The new soundtracks will allow users to “hear” the cosmic cliffs of the Carina Nebula and contrast the different tones of the two images […]

James Webb Space Telescope captures stunning new images of Jupiter

August 23, 2022August 24, 2022cpooldigitalLeave a Comment

The images of Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, have always been the same. A yellowish-orange sphere is how most of us remember the gas giant from our school textbooks and encyclopedias. However, the new images of Jupiter captured by NASA’s newest James Webb telescope show the planet in a very different avatar. […]

Here are the James Webb Space Telescope’s first targets

July 11, 2022July 11, 2022cpooldigitalLeave a Comment

On July 12, NASA will release the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope offering never seen before detailed views of the universe. The images will be released during NASA’s live broadcast starting at 8 PM. Ahead of the broadcast, NASA has released a list. The targets for the initial wave of full-colour scientific […]

NASA to release ‘deepest image of universe ever’ taken with James Webb Space Telescope

June 30, 2022June 30, 2022cpooldigitalLeave a Comment

Ahead of NASA’s release of the James Webb Space Telescope’s first full-colour images and spectroscopic data, we may finally have hints of what the first few operational images will look like. The first pictures from the $10 billion-dollar deep-space observatory will include “the deepest image of our universe that has ever been taken,” according to […]

James Webb Space Telescope to release first full-colour images on July 12

June 5, 2022June 5, 2022cpooldigitalLeave a Comment

NASA announced that it will release the first full-colour images and spectroscopic data from the James Webb space telescope on July 12, 2022. The James Webb Space Telescope was built and deployed in partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and is the largest and most complex observatory ever […]