25 amazing photos taken by the James Webb telescope (26 photos)

The James Webb telescope is more than a year old, and during this time it took many amazing pictures in space. This is the largest and most most powerful telescope in history, on the creation of which scientists have worked for 25 years. He photographs galaxies, and supernovae, and nebulae, and planets - and the views of all this do not cease to fascinate us. Let's take a look at the most interesting pictures taken by the telescope.





1. In the photo - the spiral galaxy M51, also known as NGC 5194. Photo taken with a MIRI mid-infrared instrument.



2. Photo of the galaxy M51 from the near-infrared camera (NIRCam)





3. Planetary nebula Ring. It is 2300 light years away from Earth.



4. In the center of the spot in the middle are two small stars, which move chaotically for thousands of years, absorbing gas and dust around myself



5. El Gordo - a remote cluster of galaxies that appeared when the universe was about 6 billion years old



6. A picture of the Ring Nebula taken by the MIRI mid-infrared instrument.



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8. Here, the telescope captured the "fire hourglass" during the formation of a new star.



9. This is an image from the James Webb telescope, which was combined with older images from the Chandra X-ray Observatory



10. And this is the original photograph from the telescope, without the "X-ray" component



11. Webb also discovered complex organic molecules in a galaxy more than 12 billion light-years away from Earth. This is a record for the detection range of complex molecules



12. Snapshot of the galaxy NGC 6822, one of the closest to us



13. Spiral galaxy NGC 1672, located 60 million light years from Earth



14. During one study, Webb discovered the most remote an active supermassive black hole, a couple more small black holes, and 11 "young" galaxies



15. Ro Ophiuchus is a double star. This is one of the closest The sun is a star-forming region located 420 light years away



16. Snapshot of the galaxy NGC 3256, which appeared 500 million years ago as a result of the collision of two spiral galaxies



17. Star WHL0137-LS, also known as Earendel



18. Snapshot of Jupiter



19. Region NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula



20. Saturn



21. In this protoplanetary disk around the young star d203-506, astronomers first discovered the methyl cation (CH₃+)



22. "Pillars of Creation" in the Eagle Nebula, where new stars form in dense clouds of gas and dust



23. Webb has been photographing supernova SN 1987A since 1990.



24. Supernova SN 1987A. Webb captured the sharpest and most detailed image of this star to date.



25. Stephen's Quintet, a group of five galaxies in the constellation Pegasus