James Webb has captured a beautiful image of an Einstein Ring, which community members have translated to fully colorized images.
from James Webb in July. Since then, the space telescope has captured evidence of a supernova, carbon dioxide in an exoplanet’s atmosphere, and now James Webb has captured an image of a beautiful Einstein Ring.A close-up view of the Einstein Ring James Webb observed. Image source:The image was created using data captured by James Webb’s MIRI detector. It was also observed using the telescope’s NIRCam detector.
An Einstein Ring is essentially when light from a galaxy or star passes another galaxy or a massive object en route to Earth. Because the large object’s gravity bends the light, it creates gravitational lensing. This creates a ring-life effect, making the galaxy’s light appear as a nearly perfect ring. In this new image, James Webb has captured the galaxy SPT-S J041839-4751.8.
The light from SPT-S J041839-4751.8 appears like an Einstein Ring because of a foreground galaxy that has bent the light from it. So, this new James Webb image of an Einstein Ring isn’t actually the galaxy that is creating the light. Instead, we simply see the light from that galaxy as it bends around the foreground galaxy.
Still, the image itself is breathtaking. Spaceguy44 created the image using data downloaded from the Space Telescope Science Institute archives. The Einstein Ring that James Webb captured is roughly 12 billion light-years from Earth. To colorize the image, Spaceguy44 says they used a set of filters, which they also published in theirJames Webb continues to be one of the most powerful observational instruments that humankind has ever created.
on distant planets. With tools like this, the next era of space exploration has a chance to unravel some of the universe’s greatest mysteries.
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