NASA James Webb Space Telescope looks back 4.6 billion years.
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fantaskarsef
I guess those "drawn out" galaxies look like this because of gravitational lens effects, correct?
DownwithEA
I've been excited about this for the past decade. Even got to listen to a project lead during an interactive presentation. I was too nervous to ask a question. I wonder how many papers will be written form this image alone. I hope for a prosperous 20 years of operation.
Passus
Embra
This is so awesome!!
schmidtbag
geogan
With that amount of gravitational lensing does that mean there is some large mass in centre like invisible black holes? Or is that just an effect of looking so far back in time and no black holes there?
Also in top right of picture I notice a galaxy that looks very similar to Milky Way - I wonder were there "ancients" who evolved there just like we are here billions of years later... if there was, can't imagine how much more advanced they are by now.
Denial
https://i.imgur.com/ag1Uic6.png
Here's a good comparison vs hubble. I can't find an exact amount of time for hubble but apparently Webb captured it's image in 12 hours while hubble took "weeks"
It's caused by galaxies in the foreground, which contain black holes and other massive objects, but there isn't some massive (singular) black hole that's doing it.
More than twice as old actually - from what I understand the light seen here is ~12.5-13B years old. The solar system is only 4.5B years old. It's kind of nutty thinking about it lol
fantaskarsef
Kaarme
If it could see 4.6 billion years into the future, I'd give it a 50-50 chance of seeing Star Citizen finally released.
schmidtbag
https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2022/nasa-s-webb-delivers-deepest-infrared-image-of-universe-yet
According to NASA, it's 4.6B:
Denial
official image release doesn’t include scientific data, a number of these objects are claimed to have their light come to us from as far back as 13.5 billion years ago: pushing our earliest cosmic views back by approximately 100 million years.
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/webb-first-science/
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/3554004-biden-nasa-unveil-first-full-color-webb-image-looking-back-more-than-13-billion-years/
Dunno
Ya I guess it depends on what you're looking at in the photo:
Although the Dribble
The whole temperature control system is very impressive. A tennis court sized sunshield can reach 230F on the front and the back can get as low as -394F all from something super thin and light. The main instrument is then further refrigerated to -447F. As we are now getting pictures it actually works!
bobnewels
incredible
Martin5000
you sure it isnt 14 billion.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/jul/11/nasa-james-webb-telescope-ancient-galaxy-images
Fediuld
For those interested to compare a picture from the same position of the universe, in relation to earth.
picture from Hubble
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/3c2a9327924ac8b5a5a6d50c7efaf2af0fa7ddcd/0_0_4537_4630/master/4537.jpg?width=4537&quality=85&s=2d9a7990febe70ad8ffd1cb0a1e86c5c
picture from James Webb.
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/b716c953348f164cd6015d7dc80829a0e3106bdd/0_0_4537_4630/master/4537.jpg?width=4537&quality=85&s=783a989fb99252b0eaa0e5ad6f6239b9
fantaskarsef
It's basically what Hubble looked like in comparison to w/e was before Hubble.