Astronomy / Space NASA's Webb Delivers Deepest Infrared Image of Universe Yet.

[R-Irish]

(Source: https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/...livers-deepest-infrared-image-of-universe-yet)

Thought I would share this on here (for obvious reasons). A beautiful, amazing and terrifying image, but as I get older (I'm 31) I find myself glad to be around to see these exciting discoveries and images. Odd fact about me, I have a real fear of the Ocean & Space. It makes no logical sense, but I become very unsettled when looking at images or videos of the ocean & space. When I first began to play Elite Dangerous I used to get freaked out, especially when flying close planets So much so I would play with the volume down. I got used to it eventually and I think it has helped me now look at video and images of space without fear and anxiety.

(If this is already posted somewhere feel free to delete it, I had a check and can't see it anywhere).

 

[Dragsham]

Wow...
And the scale
What your looking at is a grain of sand held at arms length.

 

[photomankc]

Is that lensing showing up? Looks like curved and smeared artifacts in the central region.


ETA. Yes. Had I read the link I would know that! =D

 

[Northpin]

The lensing effect is really strong in this one

 

[Caydran]

A friend at JPL tells me the image is looking back at 4-5 billion year old infra-red light and the lensing is from curved space-time.

 

[DrinkyBird]

What your looking at is a grain of sand held at arms length.

That's one weird grain of sand then.

 

[Caydran]

Comparison: The JWST image and the Hubble Deep Field image side-by-side.

Source: https://youtu.be/dBJ2GNqJICY

 

[Willyum-71]

Is that lensing showing up? Looks like curved and smeared artifacts in the central region.


ETA. Yes. Had I read the link I would know that! =D

The distortions are showing the exact same as it did from Hubble... they're saying it is a cluster of galaxies in the foreground that is bending the light from the galaxies behind the cluster.... But something seems off to me... they are not all arc'ed from the same focal point. I think I'm counting about 5 different arc'ed pairs that don't seem to have the same central point and don't have the same central 'glow' like that main galaxy cluster in the center.... Some of the arc'ed pairs have nothing bright in the middle at all.... Maybe these arcs are coming from super massive black holes instead???

 

[Sublime]

A friend at JPL tells me the image is looking back at 4-5 billion year old infra-red light and the lensing is from curved space-time.

Some of the ones with the lensing effect are going back much farther, about 13 billion years or more.

 

[tomimt]

The distortions are showing the exact same as it did from Hubble... they're saying it is a cluster of galaxies in the foreground that is bending the light from the galaxies behind the cluster.... But something seems off to me... they are not all arc'ed from the same focal point. I think I'm counting about 5 different arc'ed pairs that don't seem to have the same central point and don't have the same central 'glow' like that main galaxy cluster in the center.... Some of the arc'ed pairs have nothing bright in the middle at all.... Maybe these arcs are coming from super massive black holes instead???

I came to a conclusion it's because it's really, really difficult to know the actual size and location of any of those objects shown there. Not all of them are behind the lensing effect.

 

[Willyum-71]

I came to a conclusion it's because it's really, really difficult to know the actual size and location of any of those objects shown there. Not all of them are behind the lensing effect.

Ok so the main large distortion from that central glow would be the 'background' to the 2 galaxy distortions just above and to the right of that central glow (where the arc is facing away from that central point glow and is more in alignment with the arc of the worm looking distortion just a little bit more up and to the right.... So that arc'ed pair is 'closer' to us and that's why it's not affected by the main distortion??? (that's also one of the pairs I was looking at that doesn't seem to have a central point)

 

[Sublime]

Ok so the main large distortion from that central glow would be the 'background' to the 2 galaxy distortions just above and to the right of that central glow (where the arc is facing away from that central point glow and is more in alignment with the arc of the worm looking distortion just a little bit more up and to the right.... So that arc'ed pair is 'closer' to us and that's why it's not affected by the main distortion??? (that's also one of the pairs I was looking at that doesn't seem to have a central point)

It’s just a 2D image but the objects in it are at wildly different depths in the image relative to us. They can vary by 10 billion light years or more.

 

[Caydran]

It’s just a 2D image but the objects in it are at wildly different depths in the image relative to us. They can vary by 10 billion light years or more.

The objects in the image that are blue-white are blue-shifted, and moving towards us. The red-orange objects are red-shifted, and moving away from us.

It eludes to a depth of field.