From the cosmic cliffs of a stellar nursery to a quintet of galaxies bound in a celestial dance, these mind-blowing images from NASA have ushered in a new era of space discovery. Read more here:
Webb also revealed never-before-seen details of Stephan's Quintet, a grouping of five galaxies including four that experience repeated close encounters, which provide insights into how early galaxies formed at the start of the universe.
A dim star at the centre of the Southern Ring Nebula was found for the first time to be cloaked in dust, as it spews out rings of gas and dust in its death throes. Launched in December 2021 from French Guiana on an Ariane 5 rocket, Webb is orbiting the Sun at a distance of 1.6 million kilometres from Earth, in a region of space called the second Lagrange point.
Webb's primary mirror is over 6.5 metres wide and is made up of 18 gold-coated mirror segments. Like a camera held in one's hand, the structure has to remain very still for the best shots, with Webb's engineers minimising its wobble to just 17 millionths of a millimetre.
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