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01/17/2024 : WEBB SHOWS MANY EARLY GALAXIES LOOKED LIKE POOL NOODLES, SURFBOARDS
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Researchers analyzing images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found
that galaxies in the early universe are often flat and elongated, like
surfboards and pool noodles – and are rarely round, like volleyballs or
frisbees. “Roughly 50 to 80% of the galaxies we studied appear to be flattened
in two dimensions,” explained lead author Viraj Pandya, a NASA Hubble Fellow at
Columbia University in New York. “Galaxies that look like pool noodles or
surfboards seem to be very common in the early universe, which is surprising,
since they are uncommon nearby.”
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Image Details - Researchers analyzing distant galaxies that show up in the
Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) Survey from NASA’s James Webb
Space Telescope found an array of odd shapes when the universe was only 600
million to 6 billion years old. The inset at the top left shows a galaxy that
looks more like a sphere, and is the least common in Webb’s results, along with
an example of a galaxy that appears as an edge-on disk but may be better
classified as elongated. Elongated shapes are one of the most common identified
so far in Webb’s survey.

CREDITS - NASA, ESA, CSA, Steve Finkelstein (UT Austin), Micaela Bagley (UT
Austin), Rebecca Larson (UT Austin)

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VIDEO TOUR


In July 2022, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope observed El Gordo, a galaxy
cluster that existed 6.2 billion years after the big bang. It was selected as
the most massive galaxy cluster known at that time in cosmic history. The
resulting image reveals a variety of gravitationally lensed galaxies, including
striking objects nicknamed the Fishhook and the Thin One. Come with us on a
video tour of this new infrared image from Webb. Transcript of Video.

Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA. SCIENCE: Jose M. Diego (IFCA), Brenda Frye (University
of Arizona), Patrick Kamieneski (ASU), Tim Carleton (ASU), Rogier Windhorst
(ASU). IMAGE PROCESSING: Alyssa Pagan (STScI), Jake Summers (ASU), Jordan C. J.
D'Silva (UWA), Anton M. Koekemoer (STScI), Aaron Robotham (UWA), Rogier
Windhorst (ASU)


ZOOM IN TO RHO OPHIUCHI

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Travel to the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex. The journey begins with a ground-based
image by astrophotographer Akira Fujii, then transitions into a plate from the
Digitized Sky Survey. Next a two-color image from the now-retired infrared NASA
Spitzer Space Telescope appears, and then finally the video arrives at the James
Webb Space Telescope’s image of the star-forming region.

The star-forming region captured in Webb’s image is small and not particularly
active compared to other well-known star-forming regions. It is the region’s
proximity to Earth (390 light-years) that allows Webb to capture it in such
detail, emphasizing the structure of jets bursting from young solar-mass stars,
and a dusty “cave” of glowing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Note: There is
no audio.

Credits:NASA, ESA, CSA, Alyssa Pagan (STScI)


DRAGGABLE COMPARISON: HUBBLE / WEBB NIRCAM

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IMAGE COMPARISON INFO:

 * The chaotic merging galaxies II ZW 96 have been examined in two distinct
   wavelengths in these images from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the
   NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope.
 * The image on the left was taken by Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys and
   gives a view over the visible-light spectrum of this merger, clearly showing
   the starburst systems that have formed between the two galactic cores with
   their older stars.
 * The image on the right, Webb’s image from the Near-InfraRed Camera shines
   particularly brightly in infrared light. The star-forming regions which have
   been activated by the galactic tumult are particularly luminous in the
   infrared, which placed ZW II 96 as one of Webb’s first targets.
 * Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, L. Armus, A. Evans; the Hubble Heritage Team
   (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration

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