James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

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Job 26:14 really... Space is beautiful

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Uranus Close-up (NIRCam image)
December 18, 2023 10:00AM (EST)
Release ID: 2023-150

Caption
This image of Uranus from NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows the planet and its rings in new clarity. The Webb image exquisitely captures Uranus’s seasonal north polar cap, including the bright, white, inner cap and the dark lane in the bottom of the polar cap. Uranus’ dim inner and outer rings are also visible in this image, including the elusive Zeta ring—the extremely faint and diffuse ring closest to the planet.

This Webb image also shows 9 of the planet’s 27 moons. They are the blue dots that surround the planet’s rings...

Read more:
https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/2023/150/01HHFNNWQTA69J6K680PVZN4A1?news=true


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Dwarf Irregular Galaxy Springs to Life with Dazzling Newborn Stars

 

Wed, Dec 20, 2023 10 AM

Release ID: 2023-020

 

Hubble’s colorful snapshots show that the universe always looks like it's in a holiday spirit. The dwarf irregular galaxy UGC 8091 is an opulent example. The dizzying interplay of matter and energy bubbles up to create dazzling blue, newborn stars that look like a festive string of lights. They are swaddled in glowing cocoons of hot, pink hydrogen gas. The galaxy is a collection of approximately 1 billion stars. That sounds like a lot, but it is 1/100th the stellar population inside our full-grown Milky Way galaxy..

 

The billion stars in galaxy UGC 8091 resemble a sparkling snow globe in this festive Hubble Space Telescope image from NASA and ESA (European Space Agency).

 

https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2023/news-2023-020.html

 

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The top 15 JWST images of 2023

The Universe is an amazing place. Under the incredible, infrared gaze of JWST, it's coming into focus better than ever before.

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/top-jwst-images-2023/

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NASA's Hubble Watches 'Spoke Season' on Saturn

December 21, 2023 10:00AM

Release ID: 2023-023

Levitated Dust Takes a Carousel Ride Around the Giant Ringworld
Though Saturn's unusual-looking "cup handle" features were first noted by Galileo in 1610, it would be another 45 years before they were described by Christiaan Huygens as a disk surrounding Saturn

 

https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2023/news-2023-023.html

 

This photo of Saturn was taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope on October 22, 2023, when the ringed planet was approximately 850 million miles from Earth. Hubble's ultra-sharp vision reveals a phenomenon called ring spokes.

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[A fascinating run down of just how confused we are...]

Cosmology in Crisis
By Ben Turner

For decades, measurements of the universe's expansion have suggested a disparity known as the Hubble tension, which threatens to break cosmology as we know it. Now, on the eve of its second anniversary, a new finding by the James Webb Space Telescope has only entrenched the mystery...

The new result leaves the answer wide open, splitting cosmologists into factions chasing staggeringly different solutions. Following the Hubble Space telescope result, an official attempt to resolve the issue at a 2019 conference at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) in California only caused more frustration. ..

https://www.livescience.com/space/after-2-years-in-space-the-james-webb-telescope-has-broken-cosmology-can-it-be-fixed

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A 3 min video (set to music) highlighting JWST 2023 shots.
 

 

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[Leonard Match Valid]

I was watching a recent video on a channel I follow about astronomy and I came across something interesting that I'd never thought of:

he made a video talking about the theory that the sun has a small black hole inside it, the size of the planet Mercury.

Has anyone come across this idea before?

Do you have any decent information about it?

I thought it was interesting because if it were true, it would imply that maybe Jehovah conducted things differently with our sun.

 

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Oversized Ancient Galaxy Isn't What Astronomers First Thought

30 December 2023

By MICHELLE STARR

 

The early Universe was a wild time. In the first 2 billion years following the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago, star formation positively roiled, and galaxies flared to life in the darkness, collided, and grew.

 

Interpreting the light that has traveled so far across space and time can be difficult, and we don't always get it right. In fact, the most powerful space telescope in operation has just revealed what might be a fascinating case of mistaken identity.

 

Discovered in 2013 as the source of rampant star formation just 880 million years after the Big Bang, a 'galaxy' named HFLS3 is not a galaxy at all. According to an analysis of data from the James Webb Space Telescope, HFLS3 is actually six galaxies undergoing an epic, giant collision at the dawn of time.

 

https://www.sciencealert.com/oversized-ancient-galaxy-isnt-what-astronomers-first-thought

 

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Unprecedented Detail: The Running Chicken Nebula Captured in 1.5-Billion-Pixel Masterpiece

Running Chicken Nebula comprises several clouds, all of which we can see in this vast image from the VLT Survey Telescope (VST), hosted at ESO’s Paranal site. This 1.5-billion-pixel image spans an area in the sky of about 25 full Moons. The clouds shown in wispy pink plumes are full of gas and dust, illuminated by the young and hot stars within them. Credit: ESO/VPHAS+ team. Acknowledgment: CASU

https://scitechdaily.com/unprecedented-detail-the-running-chicken-nebula-captured-in-1-5-billion-pixel-masterpiece/

 

 

(I don't know why the nebula crossed the road) 
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 all who know Jehovah can only be amazed at the unbelievable Beauty in his celestial creations... to realize these endless lovely designs exist & continue to move in perfect order for how many billions of years (or however Jehovah measures time for them)

  Thank you for all these beautiful posts ! i am adding them to my collection 

 

   "When I see your heavens, the works of your fingers, The moon and the stars that you have prepared, 

         What is mortal man that you keep him in mind, And a son of man that you take care of him? Ps 8:3,4

 

   it makes one ask "who are you Really Jehovah?"

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Isaiah implies that the universe was all blueprinted up and everything named before energy and creation started... Not one was missing.  Anothrr scripture says inflated like a tent.

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Hubble captures a busy frame of four overlapping spiral galaxies

By Georgina Torbet

January 6, 2024 6:30PM

 

 

The tricky part of this image is that while it appears that the three galaxies on the right are clustered close together, and the one on the left is further away, that isn’t actually the case. The two LEDA galaxies appear on top of NGC 1356, but they are millions of light-years apart and only appear so close because of the angle at which we are viewing them. They appear in the same patch of sky when observed from Earth, but their distances from us are vastly varied.

 

https://www.digitaltrends.com/space/hubble-overlapping-spiral-galaxies/

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Beautiful Collision of Two Spiral Galaxies Captured by Hubble: Arp 122

Jan 8, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

 

This cosmic encounter is known as Arp 122 and is seen here as imaged by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

 

Two spiral galaxies, NGC 6040 and NGC 6039, are merging together at the right side of this Hubble image. NGC 6039 is seen face-on and is circular in shape. NGC 6040 seems to lie in front of the first one. In the lower-left corner, cut off by the frame, the elliptical galaxy NGC 6041 — a central member of the galaxy cluster that Arp 122 resides in — appears as light radiating from a point. The color image was made from separate exposures taken in the visible and infrared regions of the spectrum with Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and the Dark Energy Camera, which is mounted on NSF’s Víctor M. Blanco 4-m telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. Four filters were used to sample various wavelengths. The color results from assigning different hues to each monochromatic image associated with an individual filter. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / J. Dalcanton / Dark Energy Survey / DOE / FNAL / DECam / CTIO / NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / L. Shatz.

 

https://www.sci.news/astronomy/arp-122-collision-two-spiral-galaxies-hubble-12590.html

 

 

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And scientists are scratching their heads  on this one https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-67950749 I wonder if they need cat or dogs to help them out?

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Hubble Finds Weird Home of Farthest Fast Radio Burst

January 09, 2024 3:15PM (EST)

Release ID: 2024-001

 

To the naked-eye, the sky looks deceptively quiet. But to radio astronomers there are powerful bursts of energy that pop off all over the sky like camera flashes at a stadium performance. The gusher of radiation released can briefly outshine an entire galaxy. The blasts come and go so fast, winking out in less than a couple seconds, they've earned the name fast radio bursts (FRBs).

 

https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2024/news-2024-001

 

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NASA's Webb Discovers Dusty 'Cat's Tail' in Beta Pictoris System

January 10, 2024 3:15PM (EST)

Release ID: 2024-101

 

Star system Beta Pictoris. 

A thin, elongated horizontal orange line appears at the center of the frame, extending almost to the edges. This is a debris disk seen edge-on. A thin blue-green disk is inclined about five degrees counterclockwise relative to the orange main disk. Cloudy, translucent gray material is most prominent near the orange main debris disk. Some of the gray material forms a curved feature in the upper right, resembling a cat’s tail. The central star, represented as a small white star icon, is blocked by an instrument known as a coronagraph, which forms a large black circle at center and two small disks pointing to the upper left and lower right. The background of space is black...

 

 

Since the 1980s, the planetary system around the star Beta Pictoris has continued to fascinate scientists. Even after decades of study, it still holds surprises.

 

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has unlocked an exciting new chapter of Beta Pic’s story, which includes new details about the composition of its debris disks and a never-before-seen dust trail resembling a cat’s tail.

 

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2024/news-2024-101.html

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NASA's Roman to Search for Signs of Dark Matter Clumps

 

Astronomers plan to use data from the upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to hone in on these globular cluster streams, potentially of our neighboring Andromeda galaxy, to look for gaps created by passing clumps of dark matter. What they learn may deepen our understanding of this mysterious, major “ingredient” in the universe.

 

Summary

The Roman Space Telescope’s fine resolution and panoramic views will allow researchers to examine streams of stars pulled from globular star clusters

 

 

Roman's Simulated View over the Andromeda Galaxy

January 17, 2024 11:00AM (EST)

Release ID: 2024-201

 

Graphic shows a simulated Roman Space Telescope image of a portion of the Andromeda galaxy overlaid on a ground-based image of the entire Andromeda galaxy. A photograph of the full Moon is in the upper right corner for scale. The Moon takes up about one-thirtieth of the full image. Andromeda is in the middle. It is oval-shaped and is oriented 45 degrees clockwise from horizontal. It fills about one-third of the image, 10 times the area covered by the full Moon. Overlaid on the upper left portion of Andromeda is a 3-by-6 array of squares representing Roman’s field of view. Instead, the squares are slightly separated and offset from each other. Within the squares is simulated Roman imagery of Andromeda, which is noticeably more detailed than the ground-based imagery. The entire array, including the space between the squares, covers about one-fifth of the galaxy, or nearly twice the area of the full Moon.

 

https://www.stsci.edu/contents/news-releases/2024/news-2024-201

 

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Keep rewriting the books. https://www.yahoo.com/news/webb-telescope-discovers-oldest-black-162143508.html

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Webb Shows Many Early Galaxies Looked Like Pool Noodles, Surfboards

 

January 17, 2024 10:00AM 

Release ID: 2024-104

 

Sample Shapes of Distant Galaxies Identified in Webb’s CEERS Survey

 

Summary

Hang Ten! Researchers using Webb found that many distant galaxies have flattened oval disk and tube-like shapes, not spiral or elliptical structures...

 

There are still gaps in our knowledge – researchers not only need an even larger sample size from Webb to further refine the properties and precise locations of distant galaxies, they will also need to spend ample time tweaking and updating their models to better reflect the precise geometries of distant galaxies. “These are early results,” said co-author Elizabeth McGrath, an associate professor at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. “We need to delve more deeply into the data to figure out what’s going on, but we’re very excited about these early trends.”

 

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2024/news-2024-104?news=true

 

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Summary

January 29, 2024 10:00AM

Release ID: 2024-105

A treasure trove of Webb images has arrived! Near- and mid-infrared images show off every facet of these face-on spiral galaxies.

 

 

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2024/news-2024-105.html

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I like how you tube is destroying what the world thinks about the universe after James Webb shows how wrong to think things just happened.

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Awesome pictures https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/mind-blowing-james-webb-telescope-222847059.html

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NASA's Roman to Use Rare Events to Calculate Expansion Rate of Universe

February 07, 2024 10:00AM

Release ID: 2024-202

 

Astronomers investigating one of the most pressing mysteries of the cosmos – the rate at which the universe is expanding – are readying themselves to study this puzzle in a new way using NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Once it launches by May 2027, astronomers will mine Roman’s wide swaths of images for gravitationally lensed supernovae, which can be used to measure the expansion rate of the universe

 

https://www.stsci.edu/contents/news-releases/2024/news-2024-202.html

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NASA's Hubble Traces 'String of Pearls' Star Clusters in Galaxy Collisions
February 08, 2024 10:00AM

Release ID: 2024-004
Summary
Long Trail of Clumpy Stars Follows Galaxy Interactions

When galaxies go bump in the night, they cook up new generations of stars that might otherwise have never been born. These close encounters between galaxies cause a gravitational tug-of-war, and gas and dust are drawn out into large streamers. The Hubble Space Telescope's vision is so sharp that it can see clusters of newborn stars strung along these tidal tails. They form when knots of gas gravitationally collapse to create about 1 million newborn stars per cluster. These "string of pearls" features are probably more common in the early universe when galaxies collided more frequently.

https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2024/news-2024-004.html


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