What is a Webb Telescope?
The Webb Telescope is a joint project between NASA and the European Space Agency, which was originally intended to look back in time more than 10 billion years ago. The telescope is also designed to look beyond our solar system’s current boundaries and find out more about what alien worlds may be like. It’s not space-bound, but it still gives us amazing views of faraway galaxies and nebulae. The space agency has released two spectacular photos they captured with the telescope that astronomers are buzzing about. The first picture shows the pillars of creation that are near a molecular cloud in the Eagle Nebula. The pillars are extremely sharp and easily visible with the naked eye, but they can be huge. The photo is so pretty, you could even mistake it for an art piece!
In the second photo below, you can see the first actual crop of galactic structure we’ve ever been able to completely make out of gas clouds. This picture was taken with the Hubble Space Telescope and shows three galaxies emitting stars across space. It’s estimated that there are tens of billions of galaxies in existence. We’re only just scratching the surface on our exploration of other worlds! The picture is one-of-a-kind because it shows just how much more we have to learn about these incredible organisms that we call “suns.
