Live: NASA releases more images from the depths of our universe
The US space agency is releasing additional images obtained from the advanced telescope, which give us a glimpse of what happened in the universe billions of years ago
Yinon Ben Shoshan
12/07/2022
Tuesday, 12 July 2022, 17:25
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Live broadcast from the unveiling of James Webb's documentation (Photo: NASA)
Less than a day after the first photo was published by President Biden and senior NASA officials at a gala event held at the White House, the US space agency NASA released more photos from the early universe tonight (Tuesday).
This is an image taken by James Webb, the largest and most advanced telescope ever built by mankind, and launched six months ago into space after 25 years of research and development.
In total, during 72 exposures over 32 hours, Webb took the oldest picture of the universe.
"Webb has an optics system consisting of 18 connected mirrors that work together as one 2.5-diameter mirror, which allows light to be collected from distant bodies as well as bodies with dim light," says Dr. Adi Nino Greenberg, scientific advisor to the Israel Space Agency in the Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology. The sensors shoot in infrared, which makes it possible to see through interstellar dust and see bodies at low temperatures. "
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The photo revealed by Biden, yesterday (Photo: Official website, NASA)
"Today's announcement will feature images covering the wide range of targets that the Web Webs Space Telescope will observe," said Dr. Eliad Peretz, a space mission leader, director of technology development at the US Space Agency, a Technion graduate and a NASA Medal of Excellence. Among other things, we will see Wasp-96b, which is a planet outside the solar system.
The spinal nebula in which stars are born and the southern ring nebula of a star that has completed its life cycle.
A group of galaxies known as the Stephen Quintet
, including galaxies in conflict. "
Much more - and much older - than any other telescope.In the most expensive scientific instrument built in the current generation about ten billion dollars were invested, and its launch was postponed 13 times - and took four times as long as the original design.
"Looking back more than 13 billion years. Going back almost to the beginning."
James Webb (Photo: AP)
The design and development of James Webb lasted more than 25 years, with an investment of about $ 10 billion.
During its mission, the capabilities of the Space Telescope, the successor to the ancient "Hubble", will enrich our world with further observations of some of the most distant bodies in the universe, which cannot be observed with the existing means in space available to mankind.
A greeting from 13 billion years ago
In a picture released tonight (Tuesday), NASA presented the cluster SMACS 0723, which formed about 4.6 billion years ago. Its combined mass distorts space to amplify light coming from distant galaxies. In fact, the farther away objects are, the more light is emitted. Of them earlier, as it took him longer to reach Earth.So, among the details in the picture, there is also one that dates back more than 13 billion years ago, that is: less than a billion years since the Big Bang, which occurred 13.8 billion years ago.
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