Nobody better slam my girl Hubble Telescope after the Webb Telescope pics came out, alright? For YEARS she was the baddest bitch around and we owe her nothing but gratitude

A Dusty Fingerprint in Space

A new image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope reveals a remarkable cosmic sight: at least 17 concentric dust rings emanating from a pair of stars. Just 5,300 light-years from Earth, the star duo are collectively known as Wolf-Rayet 140. Each ring was created when the two stars came close together and their stellar winds (streams of gas they blow into space) collided so forcefully that some of the gas was compressed into dust. The stars' orbits bring them together about once every eight years, and forms a half-shell of dust that looks like a ring from our perspective. Like a cosmic fingerprint, the 17 rings reveal more than a century of stellar interactions—and the "fingerprint" belonging to Wolf-Rayet 140 may be equally unique. Other Wolf-Rayet stars produce dust, but no other pair are known to produce rings quite like Wolf-Rayet 140.

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This Is A Black Hole Located 230 Million Light-Years Away From Earth, At The Center Of Galaxy J0437+2456. It Is Approximately Three-Million Times Larger Than Our Sun! Also, It Was Determined To Be Moving At The Speed Of 110,000 Miles Per Hour. 🔭

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In a new discovery released on August 21, 2023, James Webb Telescope captures remarkable images of the iconic Ring Nebula.

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Pictures from the Webb telescope are giving me absolute life

Webb Telescope Captures Fiery Formation of New Star

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Earendel in the Sunrise Arc

The Most Distant Star Ever Detected

In 2022, the Hubble Space Telescope broke its own record, and spotted the most distant star yet. This star, nicknamed Earendel, emitted its light within the universe’s first billion years

The star, which the research team has dubbed Earendel, is located in the Sunrise Arc galaxy and is detectable only due to the combined power of human technology and nature via an effect called gravitational lensing. Both Hubble and Webb were able to detect Earendel due to its lucky alignment behind a wrinkle in space-time created by the massive galaxy cluster WHL0137-08. The galaxy cluster, located between us and Earendel, is so massive that it warps the fabric of space itself, which produces a magnifying effect, allowing astronomers to look through the cluster like a magnifying glass

While other features in the galaxy appear multiple times due to the gravitational lensing, Earendel only appears as a single point of light even in Webb’s high-resolution infrared imaging. Based on this, astronomers determine the object is magnified by a factor of at least 4,000, and thus is extremely small – the most distant star ever detected, observed 1 billion years after the big bang

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Got to do some research on this ("Cosmic Cliffs" in the Carina Nebula). I can’t stop staring at it…

Why the webb telescope images have lens flares [x]

What I see.

James Webb space telescope first images (NASA, 2022) // Louis Tomlinson ( Just Hold On, 2016) // Vincent Van Gogh ( Starry night, 1889)

OTD Last Year, The James Webb Telescope released an Eerie picture uncovering dusty structure in Pillars of Creation. Read the full article here

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2024 April 15

A picture of the unusual galaxy M82 is on the left, while the center is expanding and shown in a JWST image on the right. Many red-glowing filaments eminate out from the plane of the spiral galaxy.

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The Cigar Galaxy from Hubble and Webb

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Alberto Bolatto (UMD)

Explanation: Something strange happened to this galaxy, but what? Known as the Cigar Galaxy and cataloged as M82, red glowing gas and dust are being cast out from the center. Although this starburst galaxy was surely stirred up by a recent pass near its neighbor, large spiral galaxy M81, this doesn't fully explain the source of the red-glowing outwardly expanding gas and dust. Evidence indicates that this material is being driven out by the combined emerging particle winds of many stars, together creating a galactic superwind. In the featured images, a Hubble Space Telescope image in visible light is shown on the left, while a James Webb Space Telescope image of the central region in infrared light is shown on the right. Detailed inspection of the new Webb image shows, unexpectedly, that this red-glowing dust is associated with hot plasma. Research into the nature of this strange nearby galaxy will surely continue.

"Looking deep into space and time, two teams using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have studied the exceptionally luminous galaxy GN-z11, which existed when our 13.8 billion-year-old universe was only about 430 million years old."

"The formation of the first stars and galaxies marks a fundamental shift in cosmic history, during which the universe evolved from a dark and relatively simple state into the highly structured and complex environment we see today."

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Can anyone tell me what this might be?

(seen with Webb telescope

Background: Two Micron All Sky Survey

Field of View: 30 arcminutes

Coordinates:+05 39 40.16 -69 25 18.2) coordinates are for what webb was focusing on at the time. this was in a nearby galaxy cluster.

whatever it is, it's MASSIVE.