The James Webb Space Telescope's imagery of NGC 628 (the "Phantom Galaxy") shows glowing dust in this citizen science image. (Image credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/Judy Schmidt)
Posted on 07/23/2022 1:35:21 PM PDT by LibWhacker
July 22 (UPI) -- NASA's latest deep-space telescope continues to shock astronomers and amateurs with jaw-dropping new images captured from the outer reaches of the cosmos.
The James Webb Space Telescope appears to have pictured a wormhole spinning in the "Phantom Galaxy," a place whose very center scientists believe may contain a black hole.
"I've been doing this for 10 years now, and [Webb] data is new, different and exciting," Judy Schmidt, who processed raw data from NASA into a stunning photo of the Phantom Galaxy, told Space.com. "Of course I'm going to make something with it."
The latest images come as the telescope -- a $10 billion behemoth six times more powerful than its predecessor, the Hubble Telescope -- braves the depths of space in its first series of missions.
Based on the new images, a team of scientists from the University of Manchester now believes the early universe may have included as many as 10 times more galaxies similar to ours.
One of the study's co-authors, Professor Christopher Conselice, told the BBC the new telescope is able to show scientists the nature of objects that "we knew existed but didn't understand how and when they formed."
"We knew we would see things Hubble didn't see -- but in this case we're seeing things differently," Conselice said.
"These are the processes we need to understand if we want to understand our origins," said Conselice, who will present his discovery Saturday in the United Kingdom. "This might be the most important telescope ever -- at least since Galileo's."
Scientists the world over remain abuzz as they sift through piles of data coming from the Webb telescope. Two independent teams have recently said they may have found the very origins of the universe.
"This is the oldest galaxy we've ever seen," tweeted Paul Byrne, an associate professor of earth and planetary science at Washington University in St. Louis, who is on one of the teams.
“It’s full of stars!”
Galileo discovered mountains and craters on the moon, the moons of Jupiter, the phases of Venus, sunspots, double stars, Milky Way stars, all with his tiny little telescope. It was quite the revolution in astronomy. It didn’t cost $10 billion though.
Excellent, we can use this wormhole to travel faster than light.
How far away is it?
They discovered the Book of Genesis?
Then this was before Jimmah Cawtah and Bidenflation.
That’s almost as much as I paid for a full tank of gas last week.
That would make a great youtube video “Galileo meets James Webb telescope for the first time.
That’s a good question. They say it’s the oldest galaxy ever seen (which means it’s farther away than any galaxy ever seen), but even Webb can’t take photos like the one pictured of galaxies that are 13+ billion ly away, afaik. Not with that much detail.
This picture would make a great print for a t-shirt. Looks like a tie dye.
Ping you on a neat photo of a wormhole looking straight down the throat of the singularity, You can see a small speck way down at the end, and I wonder what it is?
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Agree! I’d like mine to show the galaxy on the front and back of the t-shirt. That way it would sort of suggest I was being sucked into the wormhole at the center.
** Ping **
Oh, well that galaxy looks sort of blurry.
I don’t want to visit a wormhole in a blurry galaxy. I’ll wait for one in a better neighborhood.
Also funny, which I know was deliberate on your part, a deliberately funny twist on the matter, was your comment that we could use this wormhole to travel faster than light! HeeHee, not unless we can travel faster than light in the first place just to get there! Still chuckling over that one. :-)
Has it been discussed that we may be seeing multiple images of the same galaxies. We see a galaxy 500 million LYs away. Could we be seeing bv the next same galaxy but 100million LYd ccx away.
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