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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Tue Jul 12, 2022, 12:21 PM Jul 2022

NASA's new telescope shows star death, dancing galaxies

GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — NASA on Tuesday unveiled a new batch of images from its new powerful space telescope, including a foamy blue and orange shot of a dying star.

The first image from the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope was released Monday at the White House — a jumble of distant galaxies that went deeper into the cosmos than humanity has ever seen.

The four additional photos released Tuesday included more cosmic beauty shots.

With one exception, the latest images showed parts of the universe seen by other telescopes. But Webb’s sheer power, distant location off Earth and use of the infrared light spectrum showed them in new light.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/nasas-new-telescope-shows-star-death-dancing-galaxies/ar-AAZuKPR

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NASA's new telescope shows star death, dancing galaxies (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2022 OP
LITERALLY in new light! lastlib Jul 2022 #1

lastlib

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1. LITERALLY in new light!
Tue Jul 12, 2022, 12:26 PM
Jul 2022

The telescope is capturing parts of the infrared spectrum that no other telescope has had the capability to capture. And the results shown this morning and last night are STUNNING! As I saw those images, I thought, insert sound of jaw hitting floor here. WOWOWOWOW!!

(some of that "new" light is over 13 billion years old!)

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