Feast your eyes on a cosmic Pandora’s box, courtesy NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.
—and the hits just keep coming. On Wednesday, the agency released a new image taken by Webb of Pandora’s Cluster.
It’s not a stretch to say that looking into Pandora’s Cluster is akin to peering into Pandora’s box. This region of space comprises four separate galaxy clusters that piled up over the span of 350 million years to merge into a single mega-cluster, about 4 billion light-years from Earth. The new image shows off three of those four individual galaxy clusters. If you look closely, some of the light emanating from the individual galaxies seems to be bending—a sign of the strong gravitational interactions at play between the massive objects.
Astronomers estimate 50,000 sources of near-infrared light are represented in this image taken by the James Webb Space Telescope.“Pandora’s Cluster, as imaged by Webb, shows us a stronger, wider, deeper, better lens than we have ever seen before,” Ivo Labbe, an Australian astronomer working on the project that took the new image, said in a press release. “My first reaction to the image was that it was so beautiful, it looked like a galaxy formation simulation.
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