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Monday, 03 April 2023 11:00 PM
From regarding 6.3 billion light-years away, the telescope picked it up James Webb A brighter image of the “space horse” galaxy, along with a group of galaxies 6 billion years away, reveals a triple phenomenon where gravity distorts space-time, according to the Emirati newspaper, Al-Bayan.
According to NASA, the new space images taken by the James Webb telescope show galactic arcs, lines or stripes in space, and also reveal the curvature of galaxies in time and space in a phenomenon known as “gravitational lensing”, which helps this effect to enlarge distant galaxies as well, according to Sky News.
Gravitational lensing is “the effect of gravitational matter, present and distributed between the distant light source and the observer,” and it is a literal distortion of what is known as “space-time.” As if captured by a lens”, according to the European Space Agency.
Essentially, the celestial body distorts the galaxies and stars behind it relative to a person looking at it from far away.
Gravitational lensing also has a magnifying glass effect, which makes it useful for scientists studying distant galaxies that can be very difficult to spot.
And James Webb took the modern image of the group of galaxies SDSS J1226 + 2149 It lies regarding 6.3 billion light-years away, in the constellation Coma Berenices, according to the European Space Agency.
Because of this effect, James Webb’s camera was able to NIRCamor Near Infrared CameraThe camera, which works on the basis of the near-infrared spectrum, is able to capture a clearer and brighter image of the “space horse” galaxy, which appears in the form of “a long, bright and distorted arc that extends near a heart-like shape.”
And it was James Webb Telescopewhich continues to capture some of the clearest and clearest images of the depths of space, took last year, using the “gravitational lens” technique, a picture of the cluster galaxy SMACS 0723Known as the “Deep Field” image, it was the first full-color image captured by the James Webb telescope and revealed by NASA on July 11 of galaxies more than 13 billion years old.