Nasa Shares earth’s closest star forming region image to mark one year of James Webb telescope
The James Webb Telescope has been launched as the successor to the Hubble Telescope. The Hubble Telescope has been in space for more than 30 years and is showing unseen pictures of the universe to the world. The James Webb Telescope is the most advanced observatory ever in space. With the help of the near infrared camera installed in it, we have been able to see many unique pictures of the distant universe.
Recently, James Webb has discovered the most distant black hole ever discovered. This black hole is so huge that 9 million suns can fit into it. The picture shared by NASA on the completion of one year of the web is of Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex. These are huge clouds of gas and dust, where new stars i.e. the Sun are born. This place is located in our own galaxy, about 390 light years away from Earth. Remember that a light year is the distance that light travels in one year.
The first picture taken by the James Webb Telescope was revealed on July 12 last year. In that also the distant universe was shown. NASA had claimed that the picture is the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe ever taken. Every detail of the galaxy cluster named SMACS 0723 was captured by James Webb.
The construction of James Webb cost 10 billion dollars (about Rs 75,330 crore). The US space agency has also started work on the successor of this telescope.
