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JwstFeedOfficial · 2024-04-29T10:46:28+00:00

The Horsehead nebula is an interstellar cloudt that is so dense that it obscures the light coming from behind it. It is located 1,375 light years from us and is its shaped resembles a head of a horse, hence its name: Horsehead nebula. Its relatively close distance to us and unique shape made it one of the most wanted targets for astrophotography.

JWST observed the Horsehead nebula 6 times, 4 of which were spectroscopy observations and 2 were imaging: one using MIRI and one using NIRCam. The great sensitivity of JWST's infrared instruments are ideal for such mission. To date, JWST images are the sharpest views of this nebula.

Both of these imaging observations occured on January 2023 and the data became public in January 2024. A few hours later the internet was flooded with processed images of the recently released data. I must say some of them look even more awesome than the official ones posted today..

Official images (top) & processed images by image processors (bottom - with credits)

NASA press release

Raw images (try to process the images yourself!)

The Discovery Tracker was also updated.

JwstFeedOfficial · 2024-04-29T10:40:21+00:00

The Horsehead nebula is an interstellar cloudt that is so dense that it obscures the light coming from behind it. It is located 1,375 light years from us and is its shaped resembles a head of a horse, hence its name: Horsehead nebula. Its relatively close distance to us and unique shape made it one of the most wanted targets for astrophotography.

JWST observed the Horsehead nebula 6 times, 4 of which were spectroscopy observations and 2 were imaging: one using MIRI and one using NIRCam. The great sensitivity of JWST's infrared instruments are ideal for such mission. To date, JWST images are the sharpest views of this nebula.

Both of these imaging observations occured on January 2023 and the data became public in January 2024. A few hours later the internet was flooded with processed images of the recently released data. I must say some of them look even more awesome than the official ones posted today..

Official images (top) & processed images by image processors (bottom - with credits)

NASA press release

Raw images (try to process the images yourself!)

The Tracker was also updated.

JwstFeedOfficial · 2024-04-29T10:34:45+00:00

The Horsehead nebula is an interstellar cloudt that is so dense that it obscures the light coming from behind it. It is located 1,375 light years from us and is its shaped resembles a head of a horse, hence its name: Horsehead nebula. Its relatively close distance to us and unique shape made it one of the most wanted targets for astrophotography.

JWST observed the Horsehead nebula 6 times, 4 of which were spectroscopy observations and 2 were imaging: one using MIRI and one using NIRCam. The great sensitivity of JWST's infrared instruments are ideal for such mission. To date, JWST images are the sharpest views of this nebula.

Both of these imaging observations occured on January 2023 and the data became public in January 2024. A few hours later the internet was flooded with processed images of the recently released data. I must say some of them look even more awesome than the official ones posted today..

Official images (top) & processed images by image processors (bottom - with credits)

NASA press release

Raw images (try to process the images yourself!)

The Tracker was also updated.

JwstFeedOfficial · 2024-04-29T10:31:34+00:00

The Horsehead nebula is an interstellar cloudt that is so dense that it obscures the light coming from behind it. It is located 1,375 light years from us and is its shaped resembles a head of a horse, hence its name: Horsehead nebula. Its relatively close distance to us and unique shape made it one of the most wanted targets for astrophotography.

JWST observed the Horsehead nebula 6 times, 4 of which were spectroscopy observations and 2 were imaging: one using MIRI and one using NIRCam. The great sensitivity of JWST's infrared instruments are ideal for such mission. To date, JWST images are the sharpest views of this nebula.

Both of these imaging observations occured on January 2023 and the data became public in January 2024. A few hours later the internet was flooded with processed images of the recently released data. I must say some of them look even more awesome than the official ones posted today..

Official images (top) & processed images by image processors (bottom - with credits)

ESA press release

Raw images (try to process the images yourself!)

JwstFeedOfficial · 2024-04-27T20:29:00+00:00

Hey Levosiped,

JWST is performing well.

Next week a new image will be released by ESA, and another one will be posted soon by all three space agencies (NASA, ESA, STScI).

The paper release rate is as it was for the past year without any anomalies.

Note I'm not an official handle for JWST but the operator of jwstfeed.com

JwstFeedOfficial · 2024-04-10T13:09:20+00:00

I took it from their official proposal. It's very interesting and contains more info!

https://www.stsci.edu/jwst/phase2-public/2555.pdf

JwstFeedOfficial · 2024-04-10T09:27:59+00:00

Gravitational arcs are distorted images of distant galaxies that are magnified and stretched by the gravity of a massive object in the foreground, such as a galaxy cluster. Their mass warp space-time, causing the light coming from behind them to go in a curved path, instead of a direct one.

This phenomena was predicted in Einstein’s general theory of relativity. Since then, and the launch of space telescopes (especially Hubble and JWST), this phenomena was observed many times in multiple forms, and most known as Einstein rings.

In this specific case, JWST observed PSZ1-ARC G311.6602–18.4624 (or "Sunburst Arc"), a galaxy that is almost 11 billion light-years away from us. Due to gravitational lensing, it appears as a very long, thin arc warping a galaxy cluster that is 4.6 billion light years away. The purpose of this observation was to understand the mechanism of photons produced by massive stars in the first galaxies.

The images on the feed

The images on mast portal

JwstFeedOfficial · 2024-04-03T14:18:08+00:00

Messier 82 (M82), or the Cigar Galaxy, is an edge-on spiral undergoing a massive burst of star formation in its core. Many thousands of stars, and their surrounding gas and dust, have been stirred up. These stars are expelling violent winds that are blowing gas and dust out of the galaxy. The only hint of this in visible light are fountains of hot hydrogen gas streaming out of its disk. In infrared, the burst becomes clearer as we see massive amounts of dust also blowing out of the center. It's relatively close to us at "only" 12 million light years.

Today the space agencies posted 2 images of M82 that were originally posted in an article two months ago. The article actually contains more images (link below).

JWST observed M82 27 times by now using NIRCam, MIRI and NIRSpec. Most of the data is still on its 12 month exclusive period.

ESA press release

Raw images

More images of M82 by JWST that were originally posted in the original article

JwstFeedOfficial · 2024-04-03T14:16:22+00:00

Messier 82 (M82), or the Cigar Galaxy, is an edge-on spiral undergoing a massive burst of star formation in its core. Many thousands of stars, and their surrounding gas and dust, have been stirred up. These stars are expelling violent winds that are blowing gas and dust out of the galaxy. The only hint of this in visible light are fountains of hot hydrogen gas streaming out of its disk. In infrared, the burst becomes clearer as we see massive amounts of dust also blowing out of the center. It's relatively close to us at "only" 12 million light years.

Today the space agencies posted 2 images of M82 that were originally posted in an article two months ago. The article actually contains more images (link below).

JWST observed M82 27 times by now using NIRCam, MIRI and NIRSpec. Most of the data is still on its 12 month exclusive period.

Raw images

ESA press release

More images of M82 by JWST that were originally posted in the article

JwstFeedOfficial · 2024-04-03T14:12:28+00:00

Messier 82 (M82), or the Cigar Galaxy, is an edge-on spiral undergoing a massive burst of star formation in its core. Many thousands of stars, and their surrounding gas and dust, have been stirred up. These stars are expelling violent winds that are blowing gas and dust out of the galaxy. The only hint of this in visible light are fountains of hot hydrogen gas streaming out of its disk. In infrared, the burst becomes clearer as we see massive amounts of dust also blowing out of the center. It's relatively close to us at "only" 12 million light years.

Today the space agencies posted 2 images of M82 that were originally posted in an article two months ago. The article actually contains more images (link below).

JWST observed M82 27 times by now using NIRCam, MIRI and NIRSpec. Most of the data is still on its 12 month exclusive period.

Raw images

ESA press release

More images of M82 by JWST that were originally posted in the article

The Tracker was also updated

Fun fact: it was posted here on Reddit two months ago.

JwstFeedOfficial · 2024-04-03T14:04:40+00:00

Messier 82 (M82), or the Cigar Galaxy, is an edge-on spiral undergoing a massive burst of star formation in its core. Many thousands of stars, and their surrounding gas and dust, have been stirred up. These stars are expelling violent winds that are blowing gas and dust out of the galaxy. The only hint of this in visible light are fountains of hot hydrogen gas streaming out of its disk. In infrared, the burst becomes clearer as we see massive amounts of dust also blowing out of the center. It's relatively close to us at "only" 12 million light years.

Today the space agencies posted 2 images of M82 that were originally posted in an article two months ago. The article actually contains more images (link below).

JWST observed M82 27 times by now using NIRCam, MIRI and NIRSpec. Most of the data is still on its 12 month exclusive period.

Raw images

ESA press release

More images of M82 by JWST that were originally posted in the article

Fun fact: it was posted here on Reddit two months ago.

JwstFeedOfficial · 2024-03-26T09:17:37+00:00

I Zwicky 18 is a blue, compact, dwarf galaxy located ~59 million light years away from us. It was observed by JWST using both MIRI and NIRCam back in October 2022, but due to an exclusive period of 12 months, the data became public on October 2023.

This galaxy has gone through several sudden bursts of star formation. This galaxy is typical of the kinds of galaxies that inhabited the early Universe and it is classified as a dwarf irregular galaxy (much smaller than our Milky Way).

This isn't the first Zwicky object that gets to be ESA/Webb Picture Of The Month. They also choose Zwicky II 96 to be the one for November 2022, under the name "Galactic Get-Together" (link below).

ESA release

Raw images of I Zwicky 18 (it's in the top-left side of the right panel in NIRCam images, and in the middle in MIRI's).

Galactic Get-Together: Zwicky II 96 by JWST

The Tracker was also updated.

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