SPACE — NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope continues to amaze scientists and the public with stunning images of space.
On Friday, the agency released a series of photos to mark the telescope’s two-year anniversary, and what’s revealed is truly stunning.
An image scientists have dubbed “The Penguin and the Egg” shows two apparently intertwined galaxies.
“This pair of galaxies has been interacting for hundreds of millions of years and will continue to do so,” Eric Smith, a scientist with the James Webb Space Telescope Program, told Fox 13 Seattle.
Jane Rigby, a senior scientist at the James Webb Space Telescope Program, said the telescope has found galaxies that scientists see as they were when the universe was only about 300 million years old — a tender age compared to its current age of 13.8 billion years.
It’s not just looking back, though. Scientists say they’re using the telescope to determine whether distant planets have habitable atmospheres.
Some of the most exciting things on the horizon are things we haven’t thought of yet. I think we have some surprises in store for us.