The biggest and most powerful telescope that's been sent into space was unveiled by NASA on Tuesday. The images were taken with a 21-foot mirror and reveal the deepest parts of the universe.
Bill Nelson, NASA's administrator, told an audience of engineers and scientists who contributed to the telescope's development that every image will give them a view of the universe they've never seen before. You're going to see stars forming and black holes being devoured. Nelson said that it would reveal all of this.
The first year of normal science operations began over the weekend. Bill Ochs said Tuesday that that is now in full swing. It takes a village. It took a town of 20,000 people across 29 US states and 14 countries.
We have been here for 25 years. John Mather, the senior project scientist who has worked on the project since 1995, said after the image reveal that they have at least 25 left.
After more than two decades of development, the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope was launched. The $10 billion telescope has traveled more than 1 million miles from Earth and is now in a stable position. It is possible to see far into the past with the help of the invisible light that is invisible to the human eye.
Nelson told the White House that they were going back to 13 and a half billion years. We are going back almost to the beginning since we know the universe is more than 13 billion years old.
The space agency has a new eye in the sky.
One of the new images shared Tuesday was of the Carina Nebula, a large group of gas and young stars 7,600 light-years away. The region is home to young, extremely massive stars, including the volatile system of two massive stars.
The Southern Ring Nebula is 2000 light-years away from Earth. A cloud of gas surrounds a dying star in this large planetary nebula, which is half a light-year in diameter. The two stars which spawned the nebula were visible in the image.
Stephan's Quintet is a collection of five galaxies that are close to Earth. Giardino described the merger as a sort of Cosmic Dance driven by the force of gravity. 40 million light-years away is the location of the fifth galaxy.
The atmospheres of planets outside the solar system are being peered into by scientists.
The spectrum of WASP 96-b was released on Tuesday. They used a tool that provides information on the chemical makeup of a planet. Astronomers can use it to identify the fingerprints of small Molecules, such as carbon dioxide and water, and offer clues about Habitability of other worlds.
Knicole Coln, an exoplanet scientist at NASA, said on Tuesday that it's exciting because they have not had access to that wavelength before. Coln said that the data showed the signature of water in this exoplanet.
SMACS-0723 is a massive group of galaxy clusters that act as a magnifying glass for the objects behind them. A deep field image is a long-exposure observation of a region of the sky, which allows the telescope to capture the light of extremely faint, distant objects. The streaks of light are caused by the pull of the SMACS. The deepest view of the universe to date was created by this creation. Nelson told Biden that if he held a grain of sand at arm's length, it would represent the universe he saw.
During Tuesday's reveal, Jane Rigby, the operations project scientist, said that there was a sharpness and clarity that they had never had before. The most distant galaxies are more than 13 billion years old and scientists know what they are made of.
The telescope is just beginning its work. Nelson told reporters at a news briefing last week that they were only beginning to understand what the man could do.
We have some questions about where we come from. There is more to come. We are not sure who we are. Nelson said that it will answer some questions that we don't know what they are.
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