Top 5 NASA ‘Picture of the Month’ captured by James Webb Space Telescope
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Check out these breathtaking ‘picture of the month’ images captured by the $10 billion NASA James Webb Space Telescope.
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The James Webb Space Telescope was developed by NASA in partnership with ESA and CSA to study the history of our Universe.
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The space telescope was launched on December 25, 2021, with upgraded equipment, technology, and capabilities than the Hubble Space telescope.
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Unlike Hubble, the Webb telescope orbits the Sun from the second Lagrange point which is 1.5 million kilometers away from Earth.
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Check out the top 5 “Picture of the Month” images by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.
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Globular cluster, May 2024: This image showcases the star cluster, NGC 6440 located around 28000 light-years away from Earth.
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Galaxy I Zwicky 18, March 2024: This galaxy was first spotted by Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky in the 1930’s. It is located 59 million light-years away from Earth
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Galaxy NGC 1559, February 2024: James Webb Space Telescope captured this image of the spiral galaxy, located 35 million light-years away from the Earth.
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Nebula N79, January 2024: This nebula is found in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way.
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Galaxy cluster SDSS J1226+2152, December 2024: This image showcases a rear gravitational lensing phenomenon.