NASA’s James Webb telescope has come closer to the Big Bang than ever before.
NASA administrator, Bill Nelson, announced that on July 12 that space agency will reveal “the deepest image of our universe that has ever been taken,” which was taken by the James Webb telescope.
“If you think about it, this is it the farthest that humanity has ever seenNelson said during a press conference at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore,
The James Webb telescope it is able to observe in space far beyond more than any other telescope has ever made, thanks to its huge main mirror and infrared focusing tools, which allow it to pass through cosmic gas and dust.
NASA’s new James Webb telescope has a unique ability to peer into the Universe’s past.
The infrared capabilities of the Webb telescope they allow you to see deeper behind in the time towards the Big Bang, which occurred 13.8 billion years ago, that is, it can dig into the past of the universe. Current science believes and states that the universe we are born into is through a great “initial explosion”, the famous Big Bang.
As the universe expands, the light of the first stars shifts from the ultraviolet wavelengths in the visible spectrum in which it was emitted to the longer ones, corresponding to the infrared wavelengths that Webb is ready for. to detect a unprecedented resolution.
The star named 2MASS J17554042 + 6551277, taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. Now the same NASA instrument will send a “historical” image for its depth.
Currently, the furthest observations of the cosmos are in the 330 million years after the Big Bang, but with Webb, astronomers believe that the limit can be easily exceeded.
Source: Clarin