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6 Mind Blowing Images By NASA`s James Webb Space Telescope
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the largest and most powerful space telescope to date. It is taking amazing photos of celestial objects. Check out 6 amazing images captured by JWST in 2024.
1. Gravitationally Lensed Quasar
Four images of a quasar appear due to gravitational lensing. Quasar looks like an arc with four bright spots.
2. Celestial Fireworks Around Forming Star
Webb captured a protostar, only 100,000 years old. Protostar is hidden in a gas and dust cloud shaped like an hourglass.
3. Galaxy Cluster SPT-CL J0615−5746
Webb discovered gravitationally bound star clusters in a galaxy from 460 million years after the Big Bang.
4. First-of-Its-Kind Detection:
Webb captured aligned protostellar outflows for the first time. Bright red streaks indicate jets of gas from newborn stars.
5. Origins of the Crab Nebula
This image showcases high-resolution mapping of light emitted from the dust in the Crab Nebula.
6. Supernova Science
Webb identified 10 times more supernovae in the early universe than previously known.