What the $10 Billion James Webb Telescope brought to us here on earth.

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So it's already producing images that is out of this world.
I posted up some pictures and the details of the last picture for those that don't click on links.
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This landscape of “mountains” and “valleys” speckled with glittering stars is actually the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region called NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. 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.

Called the Cosmic Cliffs, Webb’s seemingly three-dimensional picture looks like craggy mountains on a moonlit evening. In reality, it is the edge of the giant, gaseous cavity within NGC 3324, and the tallest “peaks” in this image are about 7 light-years high. The cavernous area has been carved from the nebula by the intense ultraviolet radiation and stellar winds from extremely massive, hot, young stars located in the center of the bubble, above the area shown in this image.

So this Cosmic cliff is a cool 42 TRILLION miles high. (Won't be climbing that one anytime soon)

 

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So it's already producing images that is out of this world.
I posted up some pictures and the details of the last picture for those that don't click on links.
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This landscape of “mountains” and “valleys” speckled with glittering stars is actually the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region called NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. 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.

Called the Cosmic Cliffs, Webb’s seemingly three-dimensional picture looks like craggy mountains on a moonlit evening. In reality, it is the edge of the giant, gaseous cavity within NGC 3324, and the tallest “peaks” in this image are about 7 light-years high. The cavernous area has been carved from the nebula by the intense ultraviolet radiation and stellar winds from extremely massive, hot, young stars located in the center of the bubble, above the area shown in this image.

So this Cosmic cliff is a cool 42 TRILLION miles high. (Won't be climbing that one anytime soon)

Mighty pretty,for 10 mil it should be.Nice write up pepper!
 

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The first image is a perfect example of extreme gravitational lensing. Thanks for the post.
 

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The pictures are amazing, I am looking forward to more pictures.
 

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First and second pic, anything with the rays is a star in our own galaxy. EVERYTHING else is a galaxy! Mind blowing. Thanks for the shots. Very amazing.
This was from the Hubble telescope.
The write up with the photo is pointing to one part of our milky way.
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The Hubble Space Telescope captured this glittering scene using its Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys.

Globular clusters are stable, tightly bound groups of tens of thousands to millions of stars. As this image demonstrates, the hearts of globular clusters are densely packed with stars. Terzan 9 is dotted with so many glittering stars that it resembles a sea of sequins.

This starry snapshot is from a Hubble program investigating globular clusters located toward the heart of the Milky Way, in which its central region holds a tightly packed group of stars known as the galactic bulge, an area rich in interstellar dust. This dust makes globular clusters near the galaxy’s center difficult to study, as it absorbs starlight and can even change the apparent colors of stars in these clusters. Hubble's sensitivity at both visible and infrared wavelengths allows astronomers to measure how star colors change due to interstellar dust. Knowing a star’s true color and brightness allows astronomers to estimate its age, and thereby estimate the globular cluster’s age.
 

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Well I feel really, really small now. :)

In all seriousness, this is absolutely amazing. I remember seeing the first images from Hubble, and this is definitely an advancement. Fascinating stuff.
 

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