 |
|
LEFT: IMAGE BY NASA, ESA, CSA, STSCI; IMAGE PROCESSING: JOSEPH DEPASQUALE (STSCI), ALYSSA PAGAN (STSCI); RIGHT: IMAGE BY NASA, ESA, CSA, STSCI; IMAGE PROCESSING: JOSEPH DEPASQUALE (STSCI), ANTON M. KOEKEMOER (STSCI), ALYSSA PAGAN (STSCI)
|
|
|
Behind the dust: The world’s most powerful space telescope is piercing through the cosmic dust that shrouded much of the universe, leaving scientists in awe. Normally, the interstellar dust is “like being in a smoky room,” says Jane Rigby, the operations project scientist with the James Webb Space Telescope. But infrared light (capturing a thunderstorm of gas and dust, above left) is the key to this breakthrough, Nat Geo reports. (Above right, another Webb camera peers nearly formed stars in and behind the Pillars of Creation region in the Eagle Nebula.)
|
|
|
|
