JWST Offers Interesting Facts About Space and Stars

After many years of waiting, NASA James Webb Space Telescope launched into space last year. The first images from the telescope, which started its mission to show us the unexplored sides of space, recently had come. The first color photograph taken by the space telescope was shared by NASA at an event with the participation of US President Joe Biden.

After this event held on Tuesday and the images that the whole world is eagerly waiting for, super powerful optical instrument More images are sure to come from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), named The first five images are considered a huge success and the culmination of a 26-year process to enable humanity to look into space in even greater detail. Let’s take a look at what these five images want to tell us about the universe.

Signs of water and clouds appear on exoplanet

Only in the Milky Way more than 5,000 approved exoplanet or planets orbiting a star other than the sun. The existence of so many exoplanets “Are we not alone in the universe?” raises the question. The exoplanet in the image shared by JWST WASP-96bIt is located 1,150 light-years away. This exoplanet is from twice Jupiter more smallbut a gas giant 1.2 times larger in diameter, in NASA’s terms “fluffy planet” is accepted as

The fluffy planet, which has a short orbital period around its star and is not polluted by the light of nearby objects, has become a prime target for JWST’s optical power. However, this image is a snapshot of transmission diversity, not an exoplanet’s atmosphere. According to the images shared by JWST, it is in an exoplanet. water signs even of the clouds There are traces of its existence.

Stars leave shells of gas and dust as they age

JWST also officially NGC 3132 or “Southern Ring NebulaHe also studied a planetary nebula called ” 2,500 light-years away This nebula has also been imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope before, but NASA has announced that this updated image from JWST offers more details about the elegant structures surrounding the binary star system.

Of the two stars in the image, a fainter, dying star and a younger, brighter star are in the lower left. The images also show NASA’s “shells” surrounding the stars It also marks a period in what he calls a dim, dying star (the white dwarf in the lower left image on the right) loses some of its mass. That is, as the stars age and lose their power, they enter the universe. gas and powder shells it releases.

Stephan’s Quintet’s cosmic dance revealed more clearly

It was first observed by the French astronomer Édouard Stephan in 1877. Stephen’s Quintetshows the bizarre interaction of five galaxies in greater detail than ever before. This latest image shared by JWST was the clearest and largest image to date.

In this somewhat misleading image, the far left galaxy is actually in the foreground and is about 40 million light years away is located. So far, the four galaxy systems are about 290 million light years away. These four galaxies are clustered so close together that they actually interact with each other. One of the most striking aspects of the image is that even a supermassive black hole, roughly 24 million times the mass of the sun, located at the center of the uppermost galaxy, was clearly visualized.

JWST also provided a better study of the Carina Nebula

a region of the Milky Way about 7,600 light-years away Carina Nebula, displayed more clearly thanks to JWST. Hundreds of new stars have been observed forming in the nebula. Thanks to JWST, it became clear that the formation of stars is not a serene event, but one characterized by highly unstable processes that in some ways can be productive as well as destructive.

The flowing amber landscape at the bottom of the image presents a large, chaotic star-forming region of the nebula. This region is so large that NASA “Cosmic Abysses” and the highest points in this amber band are about seven light-years high.

The data from the JWST is expected to give scientists more insight into the star formation process and help determine why certain numbers of stars form in certain regions and how it results in the mass the stars have.