Hubble and its wonders
Pillars of Creation: This famous image captured the Eagle Nebula, showcasing towering columns of gas and dust where new stars are forming. It's one of the most recognized astronomical images.
Hubble Deep Field: This image is a deep-sky survey revealing thousands of galaxies in a tiny patch of sky. It provided insight into the early universe and helped scientists understand galaxy formation and evolution.
Hubble Ultra Deep Field: Similar to the Hubble Deep Field, but even more profound, this image delves deeper into space, revealing even fainter and more distant galaxies, pushing our understanding of the early universe further.
Sombrero Galaxy: This image shows the Sombrero Galaxy (M104), a stunning spiral galaxy with a prominent dust lane resembling the brim of a sombrero. It's a beautiful example of a galaxy viewed edge-on.
Carina Nebula: Capturing a region of intense star formation, the Carina Nebula image displays a colorful and chaotic scene of gas, dust, and newly formed stars. It's a spectacular showcase of stellar birth and death processes.
These images have not only been visually captivating but also immensely valuable for scientific research, contributing to our understanding of the universe. You can easily find these images by searching their names on reputable astronomy websites or through NASA's Hubble Space Telescope image gallery.
Pillars of creation
Ultra deep field
Carina nebula
Sombrero galaxy
Deep field
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
A combined optical/mid-infrared image, featuring data from both the Hubble Space Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope, shows M74, otherwise known as the Phantom Galaxy, on August 29, 2022 [NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope
The United States space agency NASA launched the James Webb Space Telescope, the largest telescope ever put into space, just over a year ago. Since then, we have been given a whole new picture of the universe – image after image of stars, planets and galaxies, farther into the universe than humans have ever seen. How close it really is to detecting signs of life on other planets
Regarded as the largest black hole in the universe
And with its Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI), it has deeper infrared vision than Hubble.But that's not a slight on Hubble, which was launched in 1990 and designed to capture ultraviolet and visible light.JWST, by comparison, was launched in 2021 — so its technology is much more advanced."Using Hubble, we would see the starlight from galaxies, but some of the light was blocked by the dust of galaxies," University of Alberta astronomer Erik Rosolowsky said."With Webb's view in the infrared, we can see through this dust to see stars behind and within the enshrouding dust."
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has gazed at the Crab Nebula in the search for answers about the supernova remnant’s origins. This image by Webb’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) and MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) reveals new details in infrared light. The supernova remnant is comprised of several different components, including doubly ionized sulfur (represented in red-orange), ionized iron (blue), dust (yellow-white and green), and synchrotron emission (white). In this image, colors were assigned to different filters from Webb’s NIRCam and MIRI: blue (F162M), light blue (F480M), cyan (F560W), green (F1130W), orange (F1800W), and red (F2100W). Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Tea Temim (Princeton University)
One of the first pictures taken by the James Webb Space Telescope
Galaxy NGC3132 by JWST
NGC 3132 (also known as the Eight-Burst Nebula, the Southern Ring Nebula, or Caldwell 74) is a bright and extensively studied planetary nebula in the constellation Vela. Its distance from Earth is estimated at about 613 pc or 2,000 light-years.
Quasar captured by JWST
For the first time, astronomers have detected starlight from distant galaxies that host extremely bright supermassive black holes called quasars.
Data from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal that four of these galaxies are massive, compact and possibly disk-shaped, astronomers report June 12 at the JWST First Light meeting. Studying the galaxies could help solve the mystery of how black holes in the early universe grew so big so fast (SN: 1/18/21).
The Orion nebula as seen by James Webb
An ancient image discovered September 2023
Last September, the James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, discovered JWST-ER1g, a massive ancient galaxy that formed when the universe was just a quarter of its current age, forming 3.4 billion years after the Big Bang. Surprisingly, an Einstein ring is associated with this galaxy. That’s because JWST-ER1g acts as a lens and bends light from a distant source, which then appears as a ring — a phenomenon called strong gravitational lensing, predicted in Einstein’s theory of general relativity.
The total mass enclosed within the Einstein radius — the radius of the Einstein ring — has two components: stellar and dark matter components.re...