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Swirling galaxy arms, a cosmic sombrero, and a dead supernova: Our favorite JWST images from 2024
- The James Webb Space Telescope has provided a steady stream of remarkable images throughout the year 2024.
- Some of the spectacular images include Spiral galaxy, A neutron star in the remnants of a supernova, Incredibly distant and ancient objects, The Horsehead Nebula in detail, Two images of galaxies colliding, A possibly unknown phase of galactic formation and many others.
- The images of Spiral galaxies combine data from the James Webb Space Telescope’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIR-Cam) and Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) with visible-light images from the Hubble Space Telescope.
- The James Webb Space Telescope's infrared cameras discovered the theorized neutron star in a cloud of dust after the explosion of a star in the Large Magellanic Cloud around 168,000 years ago.
- GN-z11, the oldest and hence the most distant galaxy ever observed and JADES-GS-z14-10, the most distant galaxy ever observed by JWST including other celestial objects like supermassive black holes and black hole merger from the Big Bang era were discovered.
- The various events of galaxy collision and formation including the Penguin Galaxy has been captured by JWST.
- A rare gravitational effect and “hyperbolic umbilic gravitational lens[ing].” effect were seen using the telescope.
- JWST found the first evidence for brown dwarfs outside our galaxy, in a young star formation region called NGC 602, which is in the outer part of the Small Magellanic Cloud.
- The Sombrero Galaxy also known as Messier 104 was imaged by the Hubble telescope earlier.
- The JWST continues to reveal new insights in the field of astrophysics.
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