Incredible Images Captured by Webb Space Telescope in 2022 - Geospatial World

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was launched on December 25, 2021. As the largest optical telescope in space, its high resolution and sensitivity allow it to view objects too old, distant, or faint for the Hubble Space Telescope.

Here are some amazing pictures of space captured by NASA’s JWST:

Cosmic Cliffs

NGC 3324 (Image: NASA via AFP)

This seemingly appearing image of a crested hill filled with flickering stars is actually the birthplace of a star-forming region called NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. Captured in infrared light it is the edge of the giant, gaseous cavity within NGC 3324, and the tallest “peaks” in this image are about 7 light-years tall.

Stephan’s Quintet

This image of Stephan’s Quintet, a visual grouping of five galaxies is taken by MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) through its powerful mid-infrared vision which pierces through enshrouded regions to reveal huge shock waves and tidal tails, gas and stars stripped from the outer regions of the galaxies by interactions.

Stephan’s Quintet (Image: NASA via AFP)

Southern Ring Nebula

Informally known as the Southern Ring Nebula, this planetary nebula catalogued as NGC 3132 is approximately 2,500 light-years away and has been sending out rings of gas and dust for thousands of years.

NGC 3132 (Image: NASA via AFP)

Jupiter

Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system is seen with faint rings which are a million times fainter than the planet itself. Also visible are two tiny moons called Amalthea and Adrastea.

Jupiter (Image: NASA via AFP)

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