How Webb telescope's 2023 space captures took us on time travel | Top 10 pics
James Webb Space Telescope, as tall as a 3-story building and as long as a tennis court, is the largest and most powerful space telescope ever built.
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Complex organic molecules similar to smoke or smog are pictured in a galaxy more than 12 billion light-years from Earth, a new record for the most distant detection of these complicated molecules, in a composite image taken by the James Webb Telescope and released by NASA on June 7, 2023. Due to how far light from this galaxy had to travel, 12 billion light-years away, we're seeing this galaxy as it was back when the universe was < 1.5 billion years old. (NASA/ESA via REUTERS)
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This image of Uranus, taken by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), offers a heightened clarity of the planet and its rings. The Webb's image impeccably reveals Uranus's seasonal north polar cap, showcasing both the luminous, white inner cap and the shadowy lane at the polar cap's base. Furthermore, the image captures Uranus's faint inner and outer rings, notably highlighting the elusive Zeta ring—an exceedingly subtle and diffuse ring situated closest to the planet.(NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI)
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Columns of gray gas and dust emerge amid The Eagle Nebula, also called M16, and often referred to as the "Pillars of Creation" in a composite image taken by the James Webb Telescope and released by NASA on May 23, 2023. Backed by dark orange mist, the cloudy gray columns are surrounded by dozens of soft, glowing, pink and purple dots; massive stars emitting enormous amounts of X-rays. (NASA/ESA via REUTERS)
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Intricate networks of gas and dust featured in the web-like spiral galaxy NGC 7496 are seen in a composite image taken by the James Webb Telescope and released by NASA on February 16, 2023. Eight red diffraction spikes extend out from its extremely bright core. Colorful dots in the background represent background galaxies. (NASA/ESA via REUTERS)
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