It is no exaggeration to say the James Webb Space Telescope represents a new era for modern astronomy. Let's have a look at images that have demonstrated the staggering power of this new window to the universe.
from the fully aligned mirror. Although it was just a calibration image, astronomers immediately compared it to existing images of that patch of sky — with considerable excitement.This image shows a portion of the ‘Pillars of Creation’ in the infrared ; on the left taken with the Spitzer Space Telescope, and JWST on the right. The contrast in depth and resolution is dramatic.
It depicts a star-forming region in the Eagle Nebula, where interstellar gas and dust provide the backdrop to a stellar nursery teeming with new stars. The image on the right, taken with the Only visible in the infrared, an "accretion disk" of material falling in will eventually enable the protostar to gather enough mass to start fusing hydrogen, and a new star will be born.
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