#jameswebspacetelescope — Public Fediverse posts

A Zoom in to the Butterfly Nebula

I haven’t used my Youtube channel very much recently so to avoid disappointing my subscribers, of whom there are several, I have today uploaded a video showcasing the work of colleagues in the Physics Department at Maynooth.

This zoom in from an optical Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image shows how infrared observations by the James Web Space Telescope reveal the surprising details of the structure at the heart of the Butterfly Nebula, NGC 6302

https://youtube.com/shorts/jLcugADvO3I?feature=share

For background to this video, see here.

#ButterflyNebula #ChorizoGate #HST #HubbleSpaceTelescope #JamesWebSpaceTelescope #JWST #NGC6302

Webb finds evidence for a neutron star at heart of young supernova remnant

https://esawebb.org/news/weic2404/?lang

The supernova, known as SN 1987A, occurred 160 000 light-years from Earth in the Large Magellanic Cloud. #SN1987A was a type II supernova that was observed on Earth in 1987, the first supernova that was visible to the naked eye since 1604 — before the advent of telescopes.

@astronomy

#astronomy #JamesWebSpaceTelescope #supernova

Webb unlocks secrets of one of the most distant galaxies ever seen

https://esawebb.org/news/weic2406/?lang

Looking deep into space and time, two teams using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have studied the exceptionally luminous galaxy GN-z11, which existed when our 13.8 billion-year-old Universe was only about 430 million years old.

@astronomy

#astronomy #JamesWebSpaceTelescope #nasa #esa #universe #galaxies

3 hours to JWST launch

https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/countdown.html
https://youtube.com/watch?v=21X5lGlDOfg
https://nitter.kavin.rocks/nasawebb?lang=en

#JWST #GetLaunched #IRL #JamesWebSpaceTelescope