There are exciting finds like views of Jupiter and a possible glimpse of the most distant galaxy ever observed, with early data from the James Webb Space Telescope. The Space Telescope Science Institute's MAST archive contains a lot of the data that is being shared. Astronomers are digging through the data to make their own analyses, and have created some amazing visuals.
This incredible and faintly terrifying image was created and shared by an associate professor at the University of Copenhagen. As part of the PHANGS-JWST project, it was captured in the mid-Infrared range.
We should just see what was observed yesterday. Then, repeating all of our feelings.
The purple color of the image is due to the way the data is processed in order to show off the structures of dust and hydrocarbons. The data was taken at three different wavelength in the mid-IR.
The European Southern Observatory's New Technology Telescope captured an image of the universe in visible light.
The PHANGS project is a survey that uses Hubble and ground-based telescopes to study how stars form from clouds of dust. The project will work with Webb in order to peer through the clouds of dust in order to see the star formation going on inside.
The leader of the Webb part of the PHANGS research said before the observations began that they could give vital insights into understanding the life of stars. When gas collapses to form stars, webb will show them.
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