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Jaw-Dropping New Infrared View of Saturn from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope - Just when you thought Saturn couldn’t get any more stunning… NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope delivers this breathtaking infrared image captured on November 29, 2024. The icy rings glow in neon white, the atmospheric bands shift from deep orange at the poles to warm tan near the equator, and both poles have this mysterious greenish-grey glow. You can clearly see moons Janus, Dione, and Enceladus floating nearby. Paired with Hubble’s visible-light view from August 2024, these are hands-down the most comprehensive images of Saturn released to date. See the hidden ribbon wave, lingering storm remnants, the faint edges of the famous north polar hexagon, and how differently the planet appears across wavelengths. Full story with the full side-by-side comparison and more images here. Reblog if space stuff like this makes your day brighter. What surprises you most — the glowing rings or the secret layers underneath? Drop it in the tags or comments!

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600 Million Years After the Big Bang: We discovered Firefly Sparkle galaxy | Researchatory.AI | Aakash Khurana

Imagine seeing the universe as it was just 600 million years after the Big Bang. Thanks to the James Webb Telescope, we can! This is 'Firefly Sparkle,' a small but mighty galaxy with star clusters that shine like cosmic fireflies, providing invaluable insights into early galaxy formation. #JamesWebbSpaceTelescope #JWST #Astronomy #Space #Galaxy #Cosmos #Universe #SpaceExploration #Astrophysics #FireflySparkle #EarlyUniverse #GalaxyFormation #WebbTelescope #CosmicDiscovery #SpaceFacts #ScienceNews #AmazingSpace

In essence, "Firefly Sparkle" is a window into the past, allowing us to witness the building blocks of galaxies as they came together.

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James Webb Space Telescope Captures Stunning Image of the Carina Nebula

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a stunning image of the Carina Nebula, one of the largest and brightest nebulae in the sky. The image is the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the Carina Nebula ever taken, and it reveals previously unseen details of the region.

The Carina Nebula is a star-forming region located about 7,600 light-years from Earth. It is home to some of the most massive stars and hottest stellar nurseries in the Milky Way galaxy. The new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows the Carina Nebula in unprecedented detail, revealing hundreds of previously unseen stars and dozens of new jets and outflows of gas and dust.

The image is also the first to show the Carina Nebula in infrared light at multiple wavelengths. This allows astronomers to study different regions of the nebula in more detail, and to learn more about the processes that are taking place there.

The James Webb Space Telescope is the most powerful telescope ever built, and it is already revolutionizing our understanding of the universe. This new image of the Carina Nebula is just a taste of what is to come in the years ahead.

What do you think of this amazing image? Let us know in the comments below!

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Rho Ophiuchi (James Webb/JWST)

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Today i want to teach you something if you didnt know.

The James webb deepspace telescope.for the ones whom find this interesting. The James Webb space telescope is the second space telescope that NASA has sent up into space where it is very far from Earth a few hundred thousand km if I'm mistaking or not. This telescope took NASA round about 25 years to build and a few billion dollars away it has real gold on its dick or mirror which exist out of hexagons it's only gold-plated though but it's good for reflection reflecting the lights and processing it we are filters like infrared or ultraviolet or even life itself. The James Webb has called already a lot of interesting photos realistic pictures that you can say it's like staring back in time because of distance between stars how it is now and how it really is at this very moment there where it is because of distance time difference the way we see this object it's absolute crazy. The James Webb telescope was launched in 2001 like it is Sky launched and it took about a half a year or a year to get to its destination which is in the shade of the Earth far far away. It can not get into the sunlight because the systems has to be very cold to be able to function the way they want it to function every temperature degree makes a difference in what the result will be absolute perfect design Judas telescope so fragile but yet so strong already it has damage to a mirror if I'm not mistaken because of a meteor and meteorite which is very a small but travel at a very fast speed and like scratch the glass order to gold. Here are a few previews of the James Webb space telescope and the remarkable images photos it took why it's amazing new look through infrared and the rest. By ginger

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A cropped close-up of the James Webb Space Telescope image of two merging galaxies known as ZW II 96 (also II Zw 96). . . . . . . . . A merging galaxy pair cavort in this image captured by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. This pair of galaxies, known to astronomers as II ZW 96, is roughly 500 million light-years from Earth and lies in the constellation Delphinus, close to the celestial equator. As well as the wild swirl of the merging galaxies, a menagerie of background galaxies are dotted throughout the image. The two galaxies are in the process of merging and as a result have a chaotic, disturbed shape. The bright cores of the two galaxies are connected by bright tendrils of star-forming regions, and the spiral arms of the lower galaxy have been twisted out of shape by the gravitational perturbation of the galaxy merger. It is these star-forming regions that made II ZW 96 such a tempting target for Webb; the galaxy pair is particularly bright at infrared wavelengths thanks to the presence of the star formation. This observation is from a collection of Webb measurements delving into the details of galactic evolution, in particular in nearby Luminous Infrared Galaxies such as II ZW 96. These galaxies, as the name suggests, are particularly bright at infrared wavelengths, with luminosities more than 100 billion times that of the Sun. An international team of astronomers proposed a study of complex galactic ecosystems — including the merging galaxies in II ZW 96 — to put Webb through its paces soon after the telescope was commissioned. Their chosen targets have already been observed with ground-based telescopes and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, which will provide astronomers with insights into Webb’s ability to unravel the details of complex galactic environments. Webb captured this merging galaxy pair with a pair of its cutting-edge instruments; NIRCam — the Near-InfraRed Camera — and MIRI, the Mid-InfraRed Instrument. If you are interested in exploring the differences between Hubble and Webb’s observations of II ZW 96, you can do so here. #jameswebbspacetelescope #WebbDepot #JWST #Webb #nasawebb #unfoldtheuniverse #JWSTWebb #NASA #ESA https://www.instagram.com/p/Clmz8hhjtu9/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Reposted from @nasa The best of both worlds 🎸⁣ ⁣ Recognize the Pillars of Creation? Two of the James Webb Space Telescope’s images — one taken in near-infrared light and the other in mid-infrared — were fused together for a new take on a familiar classic. This composite sets the star-forming region ablaze with fresh details.⁣ ⁣ Look for thousands of nearly formed stars, looking like bright orange-red spheres that lie at the edges of the dusty pillars. Stars primarily show up in near-infrared wavelengths, so this is the work of Webb’s near-infrared camera (NIRCam).⁣ ⁣ Meanwhile, Webb’s mid-infrared instrument (MIRI) is all about dust. That’s clearest in the layers of diffuse, orange dust draping the top of the image. The densest regions of dust are cast in deep indigo hues, obscuring our view of the activities taking place inside the dense pillars. Dust is a major ingredient of star formation, one the reasons why the region is overflowing with stars.⁣ ⁣ Download this image and learn more at the link in @NASAWebb’s bio.⁣ ⁣ Image description: Three prominent pillars of semi-opaque gas and dust, in between shades of rust brown and gray-blue, start at the bottom left and reach toward the top right. From left to right, each pillar is consecutively smaller. The background blends from dark blue in the bottom left corner to bright orange-red in the upper right. The strongest bright orange hues dip into a V shape at the top center. Many of the tips of the pillars appear tinged with what looks like lava. Assorted eight-pointed yellow and blue stars litter the scene. There are also tiny orange-red dots at the edges of the pillars, which are newly born stars.⁣ ⁣ ⁣ Credits: NASA, @EuropeanSpaceAgency/@ESAWebb, @CanadianSpaceAgency, @Space_Telescopes; with image processing by Joseph DePasquale (STScI), Alyssa Pagan (STScI), Anton M. Koekemoer (STScI)⁣ ⁣ #JWST #JamesWebbSpaceTelescope #NASA #PillarsOfCreation #Timeless #BestOfBothWorlds #Space #Stars#eugenelacroix1 @eugenelacroix1 #photography https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl3b4otIXkb/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=