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Webb admires Bejeweled Ring of the Lensed Quasar RX J1131-1231

Webb admires bejewelled ring
CREDIT: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Nierenberg
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This new picture of the month from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope features the gravitational lensing of the quasar known as RX J1131-1231, located roughly six billion light-years from Earth in the constellation Crater.

It is considered one of the best lensed quasars discovered to date, as the foreground galaxy smears the image of the background quasar into a bright arc and creates four images of the object.

Gravitational lensing, first predicted by Einstein, offers a rare opportunity to study regions close to the black hole in distant quasars, by acting as a natural telescope and magnifying the light from these sources...

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Webb makes First Detection of Crucial Carbon Molecule

These Webb images show a part of the Orion Nebula known as the Orion Bar. The largest image, on the left, is from Webb’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) instrument. At upper right, the telescope is focused on a smaller area using Webb’s MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument). At the very center of the MIRI area is a young star system with a protoplanetary disk named d203-506. The pullout at the bottom right displays a combined NIRCam and MIRI image of this young system.
Credits: ESA/Webb, NASA, CSA, M. Zamani (ESA/Webb), and the PDRs4All ERS Team

A team of international scientists has used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to detect a new carbon compound in space for the first time...

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James Webb Space Telescope’s Laser-focused Sight

GIF of mirrors being aligned

Light reflecting off of the primary and secondary mirrors of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope as mirrors are being aligned Credits: NASA/M. McClare

About 1 million miles away from the nearest eye surgeon, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will be able to perfect its own vision while in orbit. Though the Webb telescope will focus on stars and galaxies approximately 13.5 billion light-years away, its sight goes through a similar process as you would if you underwent laser vision correction surgery to be able to focus on an object 10 feet across the room...

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