Few things are as amazing as the profound view of space.
The powerful James Webb Space Telescope captured an unprecedented deep-field view. This is an image of part of the universe exposed over many hours. It enables astronomers — you also — to see some of the most remote, oldest objects we can see today. Specifically, Webb looks deep into Pandora’s cluster of galaxies, where multiple clumps of galaxies reside, revealing a rich picture of diverse and distant galaxies, including spiral shapes similar to our own Milky Way. bottom. This cosmic panorama has about 50,000 objects.
In a way, a cosmic Pandora’s box has been opened. (I think it’s free of all mythical evils and curses.)
“The ancient Pandora myth is about human curiosity and the discoveries that distinguish the past from the future, and this is the new realm of the universe that the Webb is opening up, including this deep image of Pandora’s star cluster. I think it’s the right connection,” said Rachel Bezanson, an astronomer at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, in a statement.(opens in new tab)Bezanson is the leader of a project called . Discover(opens in new tab) It uses the web to take deep images of the universe, and in doing so, look back deep into time.
Webb telescope’s new galaxy pictures are amazing
Most of these objects are galaxies. A cluster of galaxies is made up of bright, hazy white galaxies. The lights of the six spikes in the foreground are stars. Also, some of the very distant red spots of light could be other things, such as evidence of early black holes.
Several large clusters of galaxies in Pandora’s cluster.
Credits: NASA / ESA / CSA / Ivo Labbe (Swinburne) / Rachel Bezanson (University of Pittsburgh) // Image processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI)
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The telescope has captured impressive pictures of Pandora’s Box before, but not this time. The web is designed to see infrared light (light that we can’t see), but this light travels at longer wavelengths than visible light, so it essentially slips through the dust and gas clouds of space. , can reveal what lies ahead. Webb’s mirror is also 21 feet in diameter, more than twice his Hubble Space Telescope size. This means you can capture more light and get more detailed information.
But it’s not just Webb’s prodigious ability that makes this deep field view amazing. That is the nature of Pandora’s clusters. The cluster creates a natural “gravitational lens” that magnifies objects beyond. All these galaxies are very massive objects. billions of stars, Millions of black holes, and possibly trillions of planets. The combined mass of these galaxies distorts space like a bowling ball on a mattress.
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This warped space essentially creates the “lens” through which we see. So the light from the galaxies behind this cluster that we (or the Webb telescope) ultimately see is distorted. As explained by the Space Telescope Science Institute, which operates the telescope,(opens in new tab): “It’s like having a camera lens between us and a more distant galaxy.” stretched or distorted. These are some of the earliest galaxies ever formed. It is a spectacle made possible on screen through the combination of technology and the power of nature.
“My first reaction to the image was that it looked very beautiful and looked like a galaxy formation simulation.”
“Webb’s image of Pandora’s star cluster shows the most powerful, broadest, deepest and most remarkable lens we’ve ever seen,” said an astronomer at Swinburne University of Technology in Australia, who said the image’s Ivo Labbe, who also collaborated on the shoot, said: statement. “My first reaction to this image was that it was very beautiful and looked like a simulation of galaxy formation. We knew this was real data and that we are now working on a new era in astronomy.” I had to remember.”
stay tuned. Webb, a scientific collaboration of NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency, has not been operational for a year. It’s not just discoveries about the galaxy.
