NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has discovered the oldest star clusters ever seen.
Astronomers have spotted the first stunning images of the most distant globular clusters ever discovered, found in a 9-billion-year-old galaxy. According to scientists, star clusters may include clumps of millions of the first and oldest stars in the universe.
The results come from scientific analysis of James Webb’s first image, Webb’s First Deep Field. This image, containing thousands of shimmering galaxies, became famous as the first image released from the new telescope.
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Riyadh Newspaper | “James Webb” .. The first image of a planet outside the solar system
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“James Webb” .. The first image of a planet outside the solar system
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first direct image of an exoplanet, according to what the US space agency NASA announced.
The image taken is of a gas giant planet that is not habitable according to the concept of humans.
NASA quoted Sasha Hinckley, a professor of astrophysics at the University of Exeter, as saying that what James Webb had achieved “marks a turning point not only for him but for astronomy in general.”
The planet, named HIP 65426 b, is six to 12 times larger than Jupiter, an estimate that the telescope should confirm.
NASA stated that the planet, which dates back between 15 and 20 years, is small compared to the planets, specifically Earth, which dates back to 4.5 billion years.
This is not the first time that a direct image of a planet outside the solar system has been taken, as the Hubble Space Telescope, which was launched in 1990 and is still in operation, has previously accomplished this task.
NASA explained that this image “would show the path that James Webb should follow in the process of planetary exploration.”
She added that James Webb’s ability to capture the image “indicates the existence of future possibilities for studies of distant worlds.”
The image was published in four copies, each with a different optical filter.
The planet was easily distinguished from its star thanks to the great distance separating them.
“Getting this picture was like searching for a treasure in space,” said Erin Carter, a researcher at the University of California, Santa Cruz who worked on analyzing the footage.
“James Webb” and “Hubble” meet to photograph the Phantom Galaxy (photo)
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The James Webb Space Telescope has dazzled the world since it began sending images back to Earth, but sometimes the most advanced space telescope needs a little help. About 32 million light-years from Earth, it has been a favorite of astronomers since it was discovered by Pierre Michen in 1780.
What makes the image different from the one we’ve seen in the past is that it’s a composite, and includes visible and ultraviolet wavelengths, captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, with James Webb’s use of infrared light.
Separate photos taken can be seen below.
It is noteworthy that the “Web” snapshot of the galaxy highlights all the gas and dust at its outer edge, and the image also shows the nuclear star cluster in its center.
These images are evidence that Hubble can still help the scientific community, and the European Space Agency says that Hubble’s observations of “Messier 74” It revealed star formations known as ‘Hill’ regions within the galaxy. This is impressive for a telescope that was only expected to be in operation for 15 years, but has been going strong for 32 years.
A new documentary reveals the secrets of historical color images of the universe about “James Webb”
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More information regarding the James Webb space telescope will be released on Sunday, the BBC announced, in a new documentary.
The new documentary also includes the moment scientists looked at color images for the first time, with those showing “stellar nurseries” and “cosmic dances” of five galaxies.
The network stated that the £ 8 billion telescope uses infrared radiation to see the sky, which is the longest wave of light that our eyes can sense.
The James Webb Telescope, the successor to the Hubble telescope, has given scientists the ability to look deep into the universe and study the atmospheres of planets in our Milky Way galaxy to see if there is life there.
The new technology is the most technically advanced telescope ever, and it looks back in time more than the Hubble telescope, to the era regarding 200 million years following the Big Bang when the first stars and galaxies appeared, some from 13 billion years ago.
Webb’s primary mission is to capture the faint light from these objects at the edge of our observable universe so that scientists can learn how they formed.
The telescope was first designed in the late 1980s and consists of a mirror six times larger than the Hubble mirror.
The BBC documentary will take a deep look into the world of the James Webb Space Telescope, the lives of the engineers who built it and the astronomers who will use it.
Meanwhile, NASA has detected water on a gas giant planet more than 1,150 light-years from Earth using groundbreaking technology.