The James Webb Space Telescope has already expanded humanity's vision further into time and space than ever before, giving a breathtaking sneak peek of the deepest and clearest image of the early Universe to date.
NASA has just released five more stunning full-color images captured by the telescopes.
In the lead up to the reveal, Gregory L. Robinson teased, "You ain't seen nothing yet!"
He was correct. These visions are more detailed and clearer than we have seen before.
This is just five days worth of images, so if you're not already blown away, think again. It's a culmination of decades of hard work and it's only the beginning.
The shells of gas from dying stars are what you're seeing here.
The Southern Ring Nebula is located in the southern constellation of Vela and is 2,500 light years away.
Two stars are in the center of it. A white dwarf is a star that was up to eight times the mass of the sun. The core was packed into an object the size of Earth after it blew off its outer layers. It is just from residual heat. It will cool to a dead object.
The star is covered in dust for the first time. The brighter star is in the early stages of evolution and will one day explode into its own nebula.
The space agency, as well as the CSA, and theSTScI, are involved.
A blue haze of hot ionized gas from the leftover heated core of the dead star can be seen on the left side of the camera.
The blue hydrocarbons in the image are similar to the orange in the previous image because they gather on the surface of hydrogen dust rings.
The star is surrounded by dust for the first time in this picture.
NASA says that webb will allow them to dig into many more details. Researchers will be able to refine their knowledge of objects by knowing which molecule is present and where it lies.
In 1998 Hubble took a view of the Southern Ring Nebula.
There is a hubble.
You can read more about the image.
We have already seen the deep field image of SMACS-0723, filled to the brim with galaxies frozen in time billions of years ago. The team gave more information about the image today.
Why do some of the galaxies in this image appear bent? The combined mass of this galaxy cluster acts as a "gravitational lens," bending light rays from more distant galaxies behind it, magnifying them. The light from the farthest galaxy here traveled 13.1 billion years to us. pic.twitter.com/XaZkngQqvg
— NASA Webb Telescope (@NASAWebb) July 12, 2022
You can read more about the image.
WASP-96b is a hot puffy world that is so close to its star that it has just a 3.5 Earth-day retrograde. The star is 1,150 light-years away.
Clouds and haze in the exoplanet's atmosphere have been detected by the JWST.
The space agency, as well as the CSA, and theSTScI, are involved.
By observing tiny decreases in the brightness of specific colors of light over a 6.4 hour period on June 21, the JWST was able to reveal the presence of specific gas molecule around the planet. The most detailed observation of an exoplanet's atmosphere has been received.
Is it possible that it works? A small amount of the star's light should pass through the star's atmosphere if it has one. The spectrum of that light can be looked at by scientists to see if the light has been absorbed and re-emitted by the atmosphere. This can give us an idea of what those elements are.
The previous observations suggested that WASP-96b had no clouds. We still don't know a lot about this strange exoplanet.
This isn't the first time we've detected water in an exoplanet's atmosphere, but the detection by the Hubble Space Telescope is more detailed and hints at the potential of what lies ahead.
You can read more about the observations.
The red areas in the image below are from Stephan's Quintet, a group of galaxies locked in a Cosmic Dance with Collisions and New Stars.
An area of the sky one-fifth of the Moon's diameter is covered by a huge image of Stephan's Quintet. It was built from around 1,000 image files.
The space agency, as well as the CSA, and theSTScI, are involved.
Scientists were able to identify the signs of material around a massive black hole in the topmost galaxy in this image. Its light energy is 40 billion times that of the Sun.
The one on the left is 40 million light years away from us, which is much closer to the others than the ones on the right.
You can compare the two images.
Webb's mosaic is its largest image to date, covering an area of the sky 1/5 of the Moon's diameter (as seen from Earth). It contains more than 150 million pixels and is constructed from about 1,000 image files. Compare the new image to @NASAHubble's 2009 view, shown here! pic.twitter.com/SbulK1GIjN
— NASA Webb Telescope (@NASAWebb) July 12, 2022
You can read more about it here.
The gorgeous Carina Nebula is complete with hundreds of brand new stars and it's the last one. The edge of a young star forming region is shown in the image.
There is an amazing sense of depth and texture in the image, and there are many new structures to explore.
The space agency, as well as the CSA, and theSTScI, are involved.
The tallest peak in this image is 7 light years high and has blue ionized gas steamed off it.
The top is where newborn stars explode into life and the stellar wind pushes the orange-y gasses away, which in turn ignites new stars or can snuff them out before they're ever made.
We are all composed of the same star stuff, which is crazy.
You can read more about the picture.
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