James Webb Space Telescope Images

Carina Nebula

Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI

This landscape of “mountains” and “valleys” speckled with glittering stars is actually the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming area called NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula which is Captured in infrared light by NASA’s new James Webb Space Telescope, this image reveals for the first time previously invisible areas of star birth. Read More...

Stephan's Quintet

Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI

Stephan’s Quintet is a visual group of five galaxies, and is best known for being prominently featured in the holiday classic film, “It’s a Wonderful Life". Today, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reveals Stephan’s Quintet in a new light. This huge mosaic is Webb’s largest image to date, covering about one-fifth of the Moon’s diameter. It includes over 150 million pixels and is constructed from nearly 1,000 separate image files. The information given by Webb provides new insights into how galactic interactions may have driven galaxy evolution in the early universe. Read More...

Southern Ting Nebula

Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI

The dimmer star at the center of this scene has been sending out rings of gas and dust for thousands of years in all directions, and NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has discovered for the first time that this star is cloaked in dust. Two cameras aboard Webb captured the latest image of this planetary nebula, cataloged as NGC 3132, and known as the Southern Ring Nebula. It is approximately 2,500 light-years away from earth. Webb will allow astronomers to dig into many more specifics about planetary nebulae like this one – clouds of gas and dust expelled by dying stars. Understanding which molecules are present, and where they lie throughout the shells of gas and dust will help researchers clarify and improve their knowledge of these objects.

WASP-96 b

Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the distinct signature of water, along with evidence for clouds and haze, in the atmosphere surrounding a hot, puffy gas giant planet orbiting a distant Sun-like star. The observation, which discovers the appearance of specific gas molecules based on tiny decreases in the brightness of precise colors of light, is the most detailed of its kind to date, demonstrating Webb’s unprecedented ability to analyze atmospheres 100 light-years away from earth. While the Hubble Space Telescope has analyzed numerous exoplanet atmospheres in the past two decades, capturing the first clear detection of water in 2013, Webb’s immediate and more detailed observation marks a giant leap forward in the quest to characterize potentially habitable planets beyond Earth.

SMACS 0723

Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date. Known as Webb’s First Deep Field, this image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 is overflowing with detail. Thousands of galaxies – including the faintest objects ever observed in the infrared – have appeared in Webb’s view for the first time. This slice of the vast universe covers a patch of sky approximately the size of a grain of sand held at arm’s length by someone on the ground.

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