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 loose interpreted data and artist composites. Funny all these pictures leave off very important asterisks.
Paging Superman.
I won’t be the least bit surprised if we find out that Zelenskyy is selling everything we give him to the highest bidder, Russia included.
Given the intense gravity of the black hole in the center, can we trust the image from the light in the center of that galaxy?
How do they know it’s the oldest galaxy in the universe?
Distance has nothing to do with age...
More Astro-Babble...
Most distant that they have found so far. Light has a finite speed, its well known. Not astro babble!
So I would still like to see the wormhole photo, but don’t know where to look.
Basically, this is an ‘attention getting’ article. It’s an example of a Science PR staff gone wild. It’s like “Girls Gone Wild” but without the wet tee-shirt contest and without the girls!
In theory a wormhole structure linking disparate points in spacetime. It’s speculative but interesting speculation. It is based on a special solution of the Einstein field equations. Wormholes are consistent with the general theory of relativity. So far to the best of my knowledge nothing definitive physically has been found that directly says they exist or even implies they exist. Theory has led the way before so they may exist so stay tuned!
Light year = the distance light travels in a year.
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