Photons lost in space for 13.8 billion years were stopped in their tracks by a thousand-angstrom thickness of gold coating the 25 square meters of the James Webb Space Telescope, producing out-of-this-world images of the most distant galaxies detected t...
Photons lost in space for 13.8 billion years were stopped in their tracks by a thousand-angstrom thickness of gold coating the 25 square meters of the James Webb Space Telescope. The data from this encounter, beamed a million miles back to earth, produced - I'm going to say it - out-of-this-world images of the most distant galaxies detected to date.
"It's a region where the gas and dust in that big cloud, that big nebula is actually condensing, falling in on itself to form new stars," said Mike Menzel of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center,"And what we're seeing in that nebula, we believe is the same process that, formed our sun about four and a half billion years ago."
"It's performed excellently. I mean, there's no other way to say it. It, it's behaving about twice as good as we had thought," said Menzel, meaning the resolution they're getting out of it is double the mean expectation. "We've seen a galaxy whose light has been traveling to us for 13.4 billion years with James Webb. And believe me, we weren't even trying.
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