The Penguin and the Egg... The Webb Space Telescope continues to reveal the cosmic surprise

<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr">Weather of Arabia - The James Webb Space Telescope was able to observe two intertwined radiant galaxies, located about 326 million light-years away from Earth, where a light-year is equivalent to more than 5.8 trillion miles.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The telescope is managed by NASA and the European Space Agency, and it captured images of these galaxies surrounded by a blue haze of stars and gas. This discovery was announced on Friday, on the occasion of the anniversary of the start of scientific operations of the James Webb Telescope, according to a report published by the Associated Press. .</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><p lang="en" style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Galactic penguin honors the 2nd anniversary of James Webb Space Telescope&#39;s 1st images <a href="https://t.co/jKiGipAHgq">https://t.co/jKiGipAHgq</a> <a href="https://t.co/ZJ5xkWcei5">pic.twitter.com/ZJ5xkWcei5</a></p> — SPACE.com (@SPACEdotcom) <a href="https://twitter.com/SPACEdotcom/status/1811805790656680365?ref_src=twsrc... 12, 2024</a> </blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> You may also be interested in:</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <a href="https://www.arabiaweather.com/ar/content/%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3... the first week of July, 3 astronomical phenomena decorate the sky</a></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><h2 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The penguin and the egg</h2><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Dubbed the “penguin and the egg,” these neighboring galaxies have been tangling with each other for tens of millions of years, and will eventually merge to form a single galaxy, according to NASA. The agency indicated that such an interaction would occur between our Milky Way galaxy and the Andromeda galaxy after four billion years.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> In late May, NASA announced that the James Webb Telescope had discovered a galaxy that formed only about 290 million years after the Big Bang, and has characteristics that have a “major impact” on our understanding of the early ages of the universe. This galaxy, called JADES-GS-z14-0, is not “the type of galaxy predicted by theoretical models and computer simulations in the very young universe,” according to two researchers involved in the discovery.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><h2 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Remote observation means going back in time</h2><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> In astronomy, distant observation means going back in time. For example, sunlight takes eight minutes to reach us, so we see it as it was eight minutes ago. By looking as far away as possible, we can therefore observe objects as they were billions of years ago.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> But light from very distant objects stretches out until it reaches us, &quot;reddening&quot; along the way, making it invisible to the naked eye and appearing at an infrared wavelength.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> What distinguishes &quot;James Webb&quot; is that it only works in infrared. Since its launch in December 2021, the telescope has observed galaxies that were considered the most distant galaxies ever discovered, but the galaxies that were announced recently made it break its own records, according to Agence France-Presse.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> GEMS Webb is stationed 1.6 million kilometers from Earth and is used by scientists from around the world for observations.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> See also:</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <a href="https://www.arabiaweather.com/ar/content/%D9%82%D9%85%D8%B1-%D9%85%D8%AD... Muharram moon is in the first quarter phase... decorating the sky today</a></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <a href="https://www.arabiaweather.com/ar/content/%D8%A8%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86-%D9%85... water or oxygen...the moon really rusts?</a></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><hr /><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Sources:</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> space.com</p>