"It contains over 150 million pixels and is constructed from almost 1,000 separate image files." Catch a dying star "This enormous mosaic is Webb's largest image to date, covering about one-fifth of the Moon's diameter," NASA said. The image casts the quintet in a new light, after they represented angels in Frank Capra's class film It's a Wonderful Life. Researchers hope to learn more about how galaxies merge and interact, including triggering each other to form new stars, and how those processes might be impacted by supermassive black holes.
The visual grouping of five galaxies was captured by Webb's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI). It contains over 150 million pixels and is constructed from almost 1,000 separate image files. The images reflect five areas of space that researchers agreed to target: the exoplanet WASP-96 b the Southern Ring Nebula the Carina Nebula Stephan's Quintet (five galaxies in the constellation Pegasus) and the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723.Īn enormous mosaic of Stephan's Quintet is the largest image to date from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, covering about one-fifth of the Moon's diameter. Everywhere we look, there's galaxies everywhere." "That's something that has been true for every image we've gotten with Webb," she added. The images from the new telescope are "really gorgeous," said NASA's Jane Rigby, the operations project scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope. The universe's splendor and breadth are on display like never before, thanks to a new batch of images that NASA released from the James Webb Space Telescope on Tuesday. It has ejected at least eight layers of gas and dust over thousands of years. A second star, barely visible at lower left along one of the bright star's diffraction spikes, is the nebula's source.
The bright star at the center of NGC 3132, Southern Nebula Ring, while prominent when viewed by NASA's Webb Telescope in near-infrared light, plays a supporting role in sculpting the surrounding nebula.
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