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| New images from the James Webb Telescope: Views from Jupiter to distant galaxies |
The world's largest and most powerful space telescope has captured the most spectacular and surprising images of Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system.
These images taken by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope are unprecedented in the past.
Polar lights, giant storms, moons and rings around Jupiter can be seen in these images, which will give scientists more clues about the internal conditions of this planet.
This telescope, which was sent into space last year, has so far taken some amazing pictures of space. Let's look at some of them.
A land-sweeping storm
Jupiter's Great Red Spot, the famous storm so large it could engulf the entire Earth, appears white in the image.
Viewed horizontally, the image shows the dim rings of Jupiter, which is a million times fainter than the planet, along with its two moons Amalthea and Adresti.
James Webb is an international space mission led by NASA and partnered by the European and Canadian space agencies.
The telescope was launched into space in December 2021 and is currently at a distance of 1.6 million kilometers from Earth.
Early scenes of the universe
James Webb released his first full-color image on July 12.
It is being described as the most detailed infrared view of the universe ever, showing light from galaxies that took billions of years to reach Earth.
This successor to the Hubble Space Telescope has since opened a new window for mankind on the universe.
Carina Nebula
This image, taken by James Webb, shows previously hidden stars and star clusters in the Carina Nebula.
Carina is the largest and brightest nebula in the sky, located 7600 light-years from Earth.
Nebulae are clouds of gas and dust in which new stars form.
A dying star
The southern nebula, or 'Eat Burst Nebula', is a giant cloud of gas and dust illuminated by the light of a dying star at its centre.
Over time, stars change the way they produce energy and release their outer layers, and when stars become too hot, they energize all the material they previously ejected.
The Southern Hemisphere is about half a light-year in diameter and is 2,000 light-years away from Earth.
Evolution of galaxies
One of the new images from the James Webb Space Telescope also includes new details of a galaxy cluster called the 'Stephens Quintet'. These galaxies were the first group of their kind to be discovered.
According to NASA, the new image details how galaxies stimulate each other's star formation process and how the gas in these galaxies moves.
The images also show the outflow from a black hole in the Stephens Quintet in a never-before-seen detail.
50 million light years away from us
This image of the Cartwheel Galaxy, captured by the James Webb Telescope, has revealed new details about star formation and the galaxy's central black hole.
This galaxy is located at a distance of 50 million light years from Earth.
According to NASA, this image shows a new view of changes in the Cartwheel galaxy over billions of years.
The images taken so far by the James Webb Telescope have been described by astronomers as 'incredible' and there is much excitement and anticipation about what James Webb will capture next.
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