Image credits: Photo: Twitter @NASAWebb

Deep dive: unprecedented images of Galaxies are released by NASA

By Erika Yukari / 12/07/2022 / 2 minutes reading

The most advanced telescope on Earth has recorded details of hundreds of galaxies that have never been captured before. After releasing the first record yesterday, NASA made public this Tuesday a series of new images.

First image released. Photo: Twitter NASA Webb Telescope

Photo: Twitter Space Telescope Science

Photo: Twitter Space Telescope Science Institute

A North American Aerospace Agency (NASA) d disclosed* this Tuesday a sequence of unprecedented color images of the cosmos recorded by the James Webb Space Telescope. According to the agency, this is the “sharpest and deepest” record of the universe ever made.

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The first image of this set had been released yesterday, the 11th, in a live broadcast on social media, and shows a group of hundreds of galaxies that had never been seen with such a level of clarity. The details of the images allow astronomers to observe, for example, the process of star formation and the interaction between galaxies.

And it's just the beginning. James Webb is an infrared telescope which was built from the most advanced space science instruments. Its objective is to capture what the human eye cannot, and the main mission of the project is to study stars and galaxies that emerged from the Big Bang. The astronomical community believes that, in this way, Webb can go to “billions of years in the past” to bring new discoveries to contemporary science.

RELEASE: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI

RELEASE: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI

*content translated via Google Translate

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