The James Webb Telescope took an experimental photograph of spaceIt was reported on Thursday that it is powerful enough to go back to the origin of the universe, before NASA releases the first images taken of the device.
The $ 10 billion telescope – which was launched in December last year and now orbits the sun 1.5 million kilometers from Earth – can go where no other telescope has gone before, thanks to its large main mirrors and instruments. They focus using infrared so they can see through dust and gas.
The first fully developed images will be released on July 12, but NASA provided an engineering test image, the result of 72 exposures of 32 hours, which shows Collection of stars and distant galaxiesIt reports the news agency AFP.
The image has some “rough” qualities, NASA said in a statement, but is “among the deepest images of the universe ever taken” and It offers a “promising scenario” that will be revealed in the coming weeksmonths and years.
“When the image was taken, I was excited to clearly see the detailed structure of these faint galaxies,” said Neil Rowlands, a researcher in the telescopic orientation sensor program at Honeywell Aerospace.
The blurry dots in this image are the types of distant galaxies The network will study scientific operations in the first year, says Jane Rigby, network operations researcher at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced last week that James Webb is able to look further into the universe than any other telescope. “It will study solar system objects and the atmosphere of exoplanets “Orbiting other stars reveals how similar these atmospheres are to ours,” Nelson said.
“Some questions will be resolved: Where do we come from? What else is it? about us? And, of course, it will answer questions we have not asked. “
Web infrared features allow you Go back to the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago.
The first cosmological observations date back 330 million years after the Big BangBut with Webb’s capabilities, astronomers believe they can easily break that record. Tel.
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