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'Just like shielding the Sun from your eyes with an upraised hand can allow you to focus on the view in front of you,' NASA explains.Įach image was taken using a different filter to capture different wavelengths - and each filter has been assigned a different colour. It works by blocking out the brighter object's light which makes it possible to capture the dimmer object nearby. The equipment allows astronomers to take pictures of very faint objects around a central bright object, a NASA fact sheet says. They were taken using JWST's Near infrared Camera (NIRCam), which covers infrared wavelength range from 0.6 to 5 microns.

#NEW JAMES WEBB IMAGES SERIES#

In fact, the image above is actually a series of separate exposures which were originally in grey scale and were beamed back to Earth. Not exactly - the colours you see in the image above aren't as they appear to the human eye.

'Our own Sun experienced a phase like this, long ago, and now we have the technology to see the beginning of another star's story.' Loading. 'Webb's image of Rho Ophiuchi allows us to witness a very brief period in the stellar life cycle with new clarity,' NASA's Klaus Pontoppidan says. So, in a way, this image is like an ultrasound of baby - except the baby is a planetary system. 'Our own planetary system around the Sun was formed in this same way.' 'These clumps become larger, forming planets and moons, and eventually a solar system grows around the star.

'As dust grains and gas swirl around a star, gravity clumps them together,' a NASA fact sheet explains. Some of the stars have shadows that suggest the presence of what's called a proto planetary disk, which sounds like a solid object but it's actually a massive ring of space dust and gas leftover from the star's formation. The brightest white circle in the green-yellow swirl of cosmic dust is a star called S1, which NASA says is 'significantly more massive than the Sun'. There's about 50 young stars in the image, most of them being a similar mass to the Sun or smaller. 'These occur when a star first bursts through its natal envelope of cosmic dust, shooting out a pair of opposing jets into space like a newborn first stretching her arms out into the world,' NASA says. Webb’s infrared telescope will explore a wide range of science questions to help us understand the origins of the universe and our place in. The James Webb Space Telescope's revolutionary technology will study every phase of cosmic historyfrom within our solar system to the most distant observable galaxies in the early universe. Those red areas pictured above are jets of molecular hydrogen. The Latest NASA Released Webb Image is featured on this page.

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