NASA’s James Webb Telescope has produced images of galaxies and stars from billions of light years away, releasing photos resembling those from a science fiction movie. .NASA said the first photo was “the deepest, sharpest infrared image of the universe ever.”.“@POTUS previewed the very first image released from the James Webb Space Telescope, the world's most powerful space telescope,” said the agency. .“Capturing this was all in a day’s work.”.Webb captured this image in less than one day, but similar images from Hubble can take weeks. .If a person held a grain of sand to the sky at arm’s length, NASA said the speck would be the size of Webb’s view. It said the combined mass of this galaxy acts as a “gravitational lens,” bending the light rays from more distant galaxies behind it to magnify them. .Another image provided was of Stephan’s Quintet. .“Here, we see five galaxies, four of which interact,” said NASA. .“These colliding galaxies are pulling and stretching each other in a gravitational dance.”.NASA said this mosaic is Webb’s largest image to date, covering an area of the sky one-fifth of the moon’s diameter. It contains more than 150 million pixels and was made from about 1,000 image files.
NASA’s James Webb Telescope has produced images of galaxies and stars from billions of light years away, releasing photos resembling those from a science fiction movie. .NASA said the first photo was “the deepest, sharpest infrared image of the universe ever.”.“@POTUS previewed the very first image released from the James Webb Space Telescope, the world's most powerful space telescope,” said the agency. .“Capturing this was all in a day’s work.”.Webb captured this image in less than one day, but similar images from Hubble can take weeks. .If a person held a grain of sand to the sky at arm’s length, NASA said the speck would be the size of Webb’s view. It said the combined mass of this galaxy acts as a “gravitational lens,” bending the light rays from more distant galaxies behind it to magnify them. .Another image provided was of Stephan’s Quintet. .“Here, we see five galaxies, four of which interact,” said NASA. .“These colliding galaxies are pulling and stretching each other in a gravitational dance.”.NASA said this mosaic is Webb’s largest image to date, covering an area of the sky one-fifth of the moon’s diameter. It contains more than 150 million pixels and was made from about 1,000 image files.
