Nasa's James Webb telescope reveals millions of galaxies

Image source, NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI

Our own Milky Way was 10 times more common than previously thought.

One of the first studies of images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope contains this Cosmic Insight.

The University of Manchester's Prof Christopher Conselice is one of the authors.

This gave us insights about objects in space that we didn't know how and when they formed.

The researcher said that disc galaxies dominated the population.

Our nearest neighbour is 2.5 million light-years away and is a disc.

He told the news that discs formed late in the evolution of the universe.

Astronomers had a view so far back in time that they were able to see through the telescope.

The first image released from the telescope was used in the study because it has yet to be reviewed by other scientists.

There is a cluster of galaxies in this picture. The light of the distant universe has been magnified by the gravity of this mass of objects. The universe was only 600 million years old after the Bigbang.

It is possible to resolve their shapes with the help of the golden mirror and super-sensitive instruments.

We knew we'd see things Hubble hadn't seen. Prof Conselice will be presenting some of his discoveries at the Bluedot Festival at Jodrell Bank on July 23rd.

The processes that created stars and planets long before our own came into existence can be seen in the images that the JWST is capturing.

If we want to understand our origins we need to understand these processes.

He said that the telescope might be the most important one ever. Since Galileo's.

The American, European and Canadian space agencies are working together on a project.

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