TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – Telescope Webb can do things that other telescopes can’t. It is the most powerful observatory in space ever built.
New video from the European Space Agency (ESA), in partnership with NASA and the Canadian Space Agency, demonstrates how the Webb Telescope can view distant cosmic objects with unprecedented detail and clarity, Mashable reports, July 30, 2022.
The video shows the Southern Ring Nebula (Southern Ring Nebula), which is the site of a dramatic stellar death some 2,500 light-years away. A star the size of the sun has run out of fuel and ejected a huge cloud of gas into space. It’s a spectacular sight.
The European Space Agency video goes well beyond our Milky Way galaxy to illustrate what the James Webb Space Telescope – with its 21-foot (6.4-meter) wide mirror – sees in the distant universe.
Unlike the legendary Hubble Space Telescope, which captures the light we can see, the Webb telescope captures another type of light, with a longer wavelength, called infrared light.
These longer wavelengths of light can slip through clouds of dust and gas, illuminating things that were previously enveloped (like a dying star spilling gas at the center of the South Ring Nebula) or cloudy.
“It lifts the veil,” Jean Creighton, an astronomer and director of the Manfred Olson Planetarium at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, told Mashable last year.
The Webb Telescope is just getting started. This device will look at some of the oldest galaxies in the universe. This will reveal what the atmospheres of mysterious exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system, are made of.
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