Following the release of the first image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723, NASA released more images from the Webb Space Telescope, which you can view at webbtelescope.org , as well as a user-generated comparison of Hubble and Webb’s images of the same region of space , showing Webb’s photo quality is clearly far superior. The newly released images include : A spectrogram of the exoplanet ” WASP-96b ” in the Milky Way, which is located about 1,150 light-years from Earth in the southern constellation Phoenix. The spectrogram shows for the first time that the planet has water, haze and Clouds and other features; the Southern Ring Nebula , about 2,000 light-years from Earth, which image shows the planetary nebula in its entirety; Stephen ‘s Quintet in Pegasus, which reveals the velocity and composition of gas near the galaxy’s supermassive black hole ; the Carina Nebula , image showing its earliest, rapidly forming stages.
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