With the largest mirror ever flown in space and a suite of instruments sensitive to infrared light, JWST will peer further into the past than any telescope, making it Science’s 2022 Breakthrough of the Year.
JWST captures the birth of a star, only visible in the infrared light the telescope is designed to capture. 2022 Breakthrough of the YearDaniel Clery
Seen with JWST’s midinfrared instrument, the newborn stars of the Tarantula nebula fade into the background while clouds of dust and gas take center stage, including hydrocarbons that will later form planets.suggest it was all worthwhile. They are “beautiful” and “mind-blowing,” according to astronomers who have spoken withthose images only hint at what is to come
JWST’s near-infrared camera imaged the Solar System’s most distant planet, Neptune, showing its rings and high-altitude clouds of methane ice.Astronomers also wanted to capture enough light from the far reaches of the universe to separate it out into a spectrum of its constituent colors, which reveal what an object is made of and how it’s moving.
NASA; ESA; CSA; STSCI; HUBBLE HERITAGE PROJECT/STSCI/AURA; JOSEPH DEPASQUALE, ANTON M. KOEKEMOER, AND ALYSSA PAGAN/STSCIEuropean Ariane 5 rocket deposited JWST in space JWST’s first direct image of an exoplanet, the young giant HIP 65426 b. With optical masks blocking glare from the star , the planet’s warm glow can be seen at multiple wavelengths.Already, that nursery is looking crowded.. Broader surveys are now underway to see whether the crowding is an anomaly—a localized cluster of galaxies—or an artifact due to a telescope calibration issue or more recent galaxies shrouded in dust that reddens them and makes them look older.
JWST’s view of the Cartwheel galaxy, whose unusual shape is the result of a galaxy collision 400 million years ago. JWST’s near- and midinfrared image shows old and new star populations and its “spokes”—a remnant of the spiral structure of one of the original galaxies.Earlier observations had hinted at some of these gases, but JWST picked up two others never previously detected around an exoplanet: carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide.
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