10/11/2023
She comes in colors everywhere 🎵
Webb and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have brought you one of the most colorful and comprehensive views of the universe ever taken. This image showcases MACS0416, a gigantic galaxy cluster located about 4.3 billion light-years from Earth.
Colors were mapped to different wavelengths of light. Galaxies colored blue are relatively nearby and full of intense star formation, as best detected in visible light by Hubble. Galaxies colored red are typically farther or dustier, as best detected with Webb’s infrared vision.
One object stood out in this field: a monstrously bright star nicknamed “Mothra,” located in a galaxy that existed 3 billion years after the big bang. This star has been magnified by the gravity of the galaxy cluster — plus a mystery object — by a factor of at least 4,000 times! Learn more: https://go.nasa.gov/49rEgVH
Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Jose M. Diego (IFCA), Jordan C. J. D'Silva (UWA), Anton M. Koekemoer (STScI), Jake Summers (ASU), Rogier Windhorst (ASU), Haojing Yan (University of Missouri)
