2023-12-09 23:15:24
New York – agencies
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured an eerie image of a screaming face in deep space. The image was taken during the discovery of a galaxy that produces hundreds of stars annually by scientists at the University of Texas at Austin.
According to the British Daily Mail website, the image appeared in the form of a ghostly body with eyes and a large open mouth. The astronomers identified the strange red dot in the telescope’s data and mapped the galaxy to have formed about 900 million years after the Big Bang. It is important to note that the images produced by the James Webb Space Telescope are data visualizations recreated by artists, not actual images of the objects depicted.
This significant discovery has the potential to change scientists’ understanding of the early universe. Previously, it was believed that massive stellar nurseries were rare, but it now appears that they may be three to 10 times more common than previously thought.
Jed McKinney, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Texas at Austin, described the discovery as “a real beast,” explaining, “Even though it looks like a small bubble, it actually forms hundreds of new stars every year.”
This groundbreaking finding offers new insights into the formation and prevalence of galaxies in the early universe. The image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope opens up the possibility of further exploration and understanding of the cosmos.
Written by Al Bilad newspaper
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