James Webb Space Telescope

Just some magnificent image made by the James Webb Space Telescope. I show them to my own telescope promising that it will be able to do that some day when he has grown up.🤓

Every time I come across images of this magnitude I will place them here.

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You’re looking at the deepest view of the universe ever captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. This deep field image was created by taking a long-exposure shot of a tiny patch of sky over 120 hours, allowing the telescope to collect light from the faintest and most distant galaxies.

Adding to the drama is a massive galaxy cluster acting as a gravitational lens—its immense gravity bends and magnifies the light from even more distant galaxies hiding behind it. The elongated and stretched shapes in the image are galaxies distorted by this lensing effect.

Every dot, fuzzy smudge, or arc you see is a galaxy, some dating back to just 200 million years after the Big Bang. The bright stars with diffraction spikes are much closer to us, sitting in our own galaxy.

At the center lies a large, bright elliptical galaxy, the core of the foreground galaxy cluster. Surrounding it are other massive ellipticals, while the curved, red arcs are distant background galaxies—magnified snapshots of the early universe.

120 Hours, Countless Galaxies, One Deep Gaze 🌌

Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, H. Atek, M. Zamani (ESA/Webb), Acknowledgement: R. Endsley.