PHOTOS

6 Mind Blowing Images By NASA's James Webb Space Telescope

Updated:Jul 08, 2024, 02:42 PM IST

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1. Gravitationally Lensed Quasar

Four images of a quasar appear due to gravitational lensing. Quasar looks like an arc with four bright spots.

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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.

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3. Galaxy Cluster SPT-CL J0615−5746

Webb discovered gravitationally bound star clusters in a galaxy from 460 million years after the Big Bang.

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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.

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5. Origins of the Crab Nebula

This image showcases high-resolution mapping of light emitted from the dust in the Crab Nebula.

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6. Supernova Science

Webb identified 10 times more supernovae in the early universe than previously known.