This comparison of Hubble's and Webb's images of the Carina Nebula shows just how much detail we've gained with the new Webb telescope. Read more about JWST's unprecedented first images:
Stephan’s Quintet is a group of five galaxies, four of which are about 90 million parsecs from Earth. The topmost galaxy, NGC 7319, harbours a supermassive black hole that is pulling in stellar material around it.The views of the Universe just keep getting better. NASA’s US$10-billion James Webb Space Telescope released four new scientific images on 12 July, including newborn stars sparkling through dramatic ‘cliffs’ of gas, and galaxies interacting in an intricate cosmic dance.
The cosmic cliffs is a star-forming region in the Carina Nebula that is roughly 2,330 parsecs away. Webb captured this image in exquisite detail, showing bubbles, cavities and protostellar jets, formed by interstellar wind, intense radiation and gathering dust from newborn stars.Other cosmic action appears in a new Webb image of the Carina Nebula, a star-forming region around 2,330 parsecs away.
Webb captured this spectrum of water in the atmosphere of the exoplanet WASP-96b, a hot gas giant. From the spectrum, researchers calculated the atmosphere’s temperature: 725°C .Perhaps the least visually striking, but most scientifically compelling, image of NASA’s release is a chemical analysis, or spectrum, of the atmosphere of a distant planet known as WASP-96b. This planet is around half the size of Jupiter but orbits its star in just 3.
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