Last night, I tuned into a TV program on Fox discussing the building of NASA's James Webb Telescope...totally new to me. So I searched online to find some of the images captured by this amazing piece of engineering. I simply could not believe the beauty of the universe and wondered at those in heaven...do they have a front row seat to this kind of jaw dropping scenery? I don't know but the thought of it makes me deliriously happy!
"With Webb, the science team can now see where stars formed and how they are distributed, in a similar way to how the Hubble Space Telescope is used to study local galaxies. Webb’s view provides a unique opportunity to study star formation and the inner workings of infant galaxies at such an unprecedented distance." Rob Landers, Florida Today January 28, 2025
Here are some of the images I found in Landers' article (link below) for more images and information about current NASA ventures into galaxies as far as 35 billion light years away.
NGC 1559 resides approximately 35 million light-years away in the little-observed southern constellation Reticulum (The Reticule). |
This image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope features an H II region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way. ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, O. Nayak, M. Meixner
NASA, ESA, CSA, Tea Temim (Princeton); Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI) |