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KOMPAS.com – The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), NASA has shocked the world community, with a portrait of the universe that was captured in full color in detail. One of them is a photo of Stephan’s Quintet or the Group of 5 Galaxies of the universe.
Launch The Verge (12/7/2022), Stephan’s Quintet was initially caught on camera from the Hubble telescope. The most reliable telescope for 32 years before the James Webb telescope.
Stephan’s Quintet image of the universe is very representative of the cluster of five galaxies and is one of Hubble’s so-called most stunning images of 2009.
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The 2009 mission sent the Space Shuttle to visit Hubble for the fifth and final time, to upgrade, repair, and perform major adjustments to the observatory, including camera upgrades.
As a result, this beautiful group of five galaxies was obtained from Hubble observations at the time.
Then through the James Webb telescope, Quintet Stephan’s image also got results that are no less amazing.
The image is one of a galaxy cluster that was first observed in 1877.
To note, the one on the top left is the outer group of five galaxies, because they are much closer to Earth than the other four, where the other four are actually very close together.
They are said to be so close that the James Webb telescope can see the shockwaves from the interactions between these galaxies as they attract each other.
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The image above is the largest image ever taken by the James Webb telescope.
This is a mosaic image created with more than 1,000 images taken by two instruments, namely the Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI)>
Both instruments collect wavelengths of infrared light, which help the James Webb telescope see or penetrate gas and dust in space. When combined, they create a beautiful image.
But, as the name suggests, they both collect slightly different wavelengths of infrared light.
Each color in this image has a different meaning, as explained by the Space Telescope Science Institute, which operates JWST.
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In this second image, red shows dusty, star-forming regions, as well as very distant early galaxies and galaxies shrouded in thick dust.
The blue dot source indicates a star or star cluster without dust.
Scattered blue areas indicate dust that has a large number of large hydrocarbon molecules.
Meanwhile, for the small background galaxies scattered throughout the image, the green and yellow colors represent more distant and earlier galaxies that are also rich in these hydrocarbons.
Meanwhile, the super bright spot at the center of the top galaxy is an active supermassive black hole.
Even though we can’t see the black hole, we can see the light from all the matter drawn into it – and it shines brightly on 40 billion suns.
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