The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a stunning image looking back 270 million years.
James Webb Space Telescope shocked we with its capabilities since its launch. NASA’s $10 billion space telescope has captured breathtaking images of distant galaxies, star clusters, black hole and more. In fact, it is going back in time hundreds of millions of years ago. Now, the telescope has achieved another feat of looking back in time and capturing stunning images of colliding galaxies, which occurred more than 270 million years ago.
ESA has released stunning images showing a pair of entwined galaxies from the constellation Cetus around 270 million years ago. JWST is co-managed by NASA and ESA. ESA explained in one Blog below the image, “The two galaxies in IC 1623 are crashing into each other in a process known as galactic merger. Their collision triggered a frenzy of star formation known as a stellar explosion, creating new stars at more than twenty times the speed of Earth. Milky Way Galaxy. “
Although this same galaxy was previously captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, JWST’s infrared imaging tools have far more advanced technology that captures this stunning image. The team of scientists captured images through the infrared parts of the electromagnetic system with the help of JWST’s MIRI, NIRSpec and NIRCam instruments.
JWST is having problems
Just a few months ago, the James Webb Space Telescope experienced a problem with one of its instruments. According to NASA, the Mid-Range Infrared Instrument on JWST was not performing optimally due to a problem with one of its four observation modes. NASA said in a Blog“On August 24, a mechanism supporting one of these modes, known as medium resolution spectroscopy (MRS), showed what appeared to be increased friction during setup for a scientific observation.”
This is not the first time 10 billion USD space telescope There was a problem during operation. In June, the telescope was hit by a meteor that caused some damage to one of the telescope’s 18 mirror fragments and required NASA to make up for the damage.
