Webb captures ‘haunting portrait’ of the pillars of creation

Webb captures ‘haunting portrait’ of the pillars of creation

This is not an illustration of dementors from the Harry Potter universe, nor is it a digital artist’s imagination of what spirits look like. This is actually an image of the pillars of creation—clouds of interstellar gas in the Eagle Nebula—captured by the James Webb Space Telescope in the mid-infrared spectrum. These pillars were first […]

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

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

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 […]

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Scientist uses James Webb Space Telescope data to create ‘purple swirl’ image of distant galaxy

Scientist uses James Webb Space Telescope data to create ‘purple swirl’ image of distant galaxy

A stunning image of the spiral galaxy NGC 628 taken by the James Webb Space Telescope looks like something straight out of a science fiction movie and could help scientists understand how dust behaves in galaxies. The image was shared on Twitter by Gabriel Brammer of the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. According to the […]

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Goose bumps build for the Webb’s 1st snapshots of the universe

Goose bumps build for the Webb’s 1st snapshots of the universe

On Tuesday morning, NASA will show off the first pictures and data from the new James Webb Space Telescope. That will bring to an end some 30 years and $10 billion of planning, building, testing and innovating, followed by six months of terror, tension and anticipation. The pictures constitute a sightseeing tour of the universe […]

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NASA to showcase Webb space telescope’s first full-color images

NASA to showcase Webb space telescope’s first full-color images

Drawing back the curtain to a photo gallery unlike any other, NASA will soon present the first full-color images from its James Webb Space Telescope, a revolutionary apparatus designed to peer through the cosmos to the dawn of the universe. The highly anticipated unveiling this week of pictures and spectroscopic data from the newly operational […]

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