Female astrophysicist on seeing NASA’s Webb telescope pictures
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Female astrophysicist on seeing NASA’s Webb telescope pictures
Astrophysicist Jane Rigby, the project scientist for Webb's operations, recalled her early ideas when she first saw the first NASA telescope photos that have stunned the entire world since then. Rigby said, "Before, the first focused images we took were where they were razor-sharp and it works better than we thought. Personally, I went and cried an ugly.
What the engineers have done to make this thing is amazing." The space agency has released a total of 5 photos taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, ushering in a new era of astronomy. The image is of the distant galaxy cluster SMACS 0723. It appeared 4.6 billion years ago, with several additional galaxies behind and behind the cluster, NASA said.
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has observed the atmosphere of a hot, puffy gas giant planet orbiting a distant Sun-like star to bear the unique signature of water, as well as clouds and haze. There are over 5,000 known exoplanets in the Milky Way, including WASP-96. It is a type of gas giant that has a direct counterpart in our Solar System and lies about 1,150 light-years away in the southern-sky constellation Phoenix.
The last picture is of the Carina Nebula, one of the major stellar nebulae in the sky. It is located at a distance of about 7,600 light years from Earth. The first hidden young stars revealed in the picture "give stars a rare glimpse into their early, rapid formation stages."