NASA’s James Webb Telescope captured a new image of a group of galaxies 6 billion years away that reveals a triple phenomenon where gravity distorts “space-time”.
According to NASA, the new space images taken by the James Webb Telescope:
- Galactic arcs and streaks or streaks appear in space.
- The curvature of galaxies in time and space is revealed in a phenomenon known as “gravitational lensing”.
- This effect helps to magnify distant galaxies as well.
Gravitational lensing is “the effect of gravitational matter, present and distributed between the distant light source and the observer,” and it is a literal distortion of what is known as “space-time.” As if captured by a lens”, according to the European Space Agency.
Essentially, the celestial body distorts the galaxies and stars behind it relative to a person looking at it from far away.
Gravitational lensing also has a magnifying glass effect, which makes it useful for scientists studying distant galaxies that can be very difficult to spot.
James Webb captured the recent image of the SDSS J1226+2149 galaxy cluster about 6.3 billion light-years away, in the constellation Coma Berenices, according to the European Space Agency.
Because of this effect, the James Webb NIRCam, or Near Infrared Camera, a camera that operates on the basis of the near-infrared spectrum, was able to capture a clearer and brighter image of the “space sea horse” galaxy, which appears in the form of “a long, bright and distorted arc that extends Close up heart-shaped.
The James Webb telescope, which continues to capture some of the clearest and clearest images of the depths of space, captured last year using the “gravitational lens” technology, a picture of the cluster galaxy SMACS 0723, known as the “deep field” image, and it was the first full-color image captured by the James Webb telescope and revealed It was reported by NASA on July 11, for galaxies more than 13 billion years old.