NASA, ESA, CSA, JWST Ring Nebula Team photo; image processing by Roger Wesson
The European Space Agency’s Euclid mission took over 11 years to get off the ground (and Earth), but now the nascent space observatory has produced its first test images of the cosmos.
The James Webb Space Telescope captured the eerie punctuation mark, found buried within an image of Herbig-Haro 46/47—a tightly bound pair of actively forming stars located 1,470 light years from Earth.
NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO Production Team
ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, J. Rigby
NASA, ESA, CSA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI)
NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO Production Team
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