Public
- Public
- Network
- Groups
- Popular
- People

A mostly black deep sky image, dotted with thousands and thousands of swirls, whorls, and diffuse blobs of light. Each is a galaxy, ranging in color from bluish-white to yellow to orange-red. Only a few pinpricks of light have the characteristic six-fold diffraction spikes that indicated stars images by JWST.

Download link

A mostly black deep sky image, dotted with thousands and thousands of swirls, whorls, and diffuse blobs of light. Each is a galaxy, ranging in color from bluish-white to yellow to orange-red. Only a few pinpricks of light have the characteristic six-fold diffraction spikes that indicated stars images by JWST.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/110/521/106/133/427/141/original/60c3cbd904be6b43.png

Notices where this attachment appears

Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-Jun-2023 17:30:52 UTC Robert McNees

Over 45,000 galaxies are visible in this recent image from JWST’s Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey, captured with the Near-Infrared Camera.
If it has diffraction spikes it’s a star. Otherwise, it’s a galaxy!
Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, B. Robertson (UCSC), B. Johnson (CfA), S. Tacchella (Cambridge), M. Rieke (U. Arizona), D. Eisenstein (CfA)
Processing: A. Pagan (STScI)

In conversation Saturday, 10-Jun-2023 17:30:52 UTC from mastodon.social permalink