We’re celebrating two years of science for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope! 🎉
The telescope continues to impress the world with new discoveries, showing the next generation of scientists, explorers, and dreamers that anything is possible.
NASAWebb is the largest telescope ever launched into space, and its specialty is observing infrared light — allowing it to see the earliest galaxies in the universe, peer into exoplanet atmospheres, see the beginnings of planetary systems, and more.
Its second anniversary image shows two interacting galaxies called the Penguin (NGC 2936) and the Egg (NGC 2937), entwined in a slow cosmic dance. Webb’s observations show that they are joined by a blue haze, a mix of stars and gas. The pair have been in the process of merging for tens of millions of years, and will become a single galaxy in hundreds of millions of years.
Head to NASAWebb’s bio for more details.
Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI
Image description: Two interacting galaxies known...
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