Starry nights: Most mesmerising photographs clicked from James Webb Telescope in 2023
Launched on Christmas Day 2021, the James Webb Telescope has managed to click some mesmerising images of the outer space. The $10 billion observatory will complete its two years on December 25th.
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The telescope is located in the region where the gravity of the Earth and the sun neutralize each other, allowing the Webb telescope to hang stationary in space.
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This year the telescope recorded an image of Orion Nebula, a stellar nursery that is home to about 700 young stars. Webb image focused not on the entirety of the nebula, but only the Orion Bar.
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The telescope imaged a Wolf-Rayet star located at a distance of 15,000 light years. According to NASA, only 220 of this species exists in the Milky Way.
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In 2023, the observatory also recorded the Orion Nebula and Trapezium Cluster which are home to relatively handful of young but very bright stars.
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The Telescope also imaged the Pandora's Cluster, formally, known as Abell 2744. It is a cluster of four clusters which long ago collided with one another.
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In December this year, the Webb imaged ice giant Uranus is a dynamic world with rings, moons, storms, extreme seasons, and more.