The Weber Space Telescope caught a "cosmic spider", including the "Einstein Ring."
On September 7, NASA announced that the James Webb Space Telescope had captured a magnificent image of the Tarantula Nebula (Doradus 30) (click here to download the original image).
The combination of high-resolution infrared instruments from the Weber Space Telescope reveals thousands of young stars that humans have failed to observe. New details captured by the Weber Space Telescope also show gas, dust and distant background galaxies in the Tarantula Nebula.
This picture is also the latest picture of the universe taken by the Weber Space Telescope. The telescope was launched on Christmas Day in 2021 and took the first picture in July this year. In this recent photo of the Tarantula Nebula, there is also a perfectly shaped "Einstein ring" (Einstein ring is a phenomenon that changes the shape of the observed light source into a ring because the light emitted by the light source is affected by the gravitational lens effect).
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Located in the large Magellanic Nebula, 16.1 million light-years from Earth, the Tarantula Nebula has the brightest star-forming region in the nearest galaxy, and our Milky way system is called the Local Galaxy Group. Astronomers who study star formation are particularly interested in the Tarantula Nebula. The chemical composition of the nebula is very similar to the star-forming region of the universe when it is only a few billion years old, so studying this nebula can provide scientists with unique insights into how stars formed in the early days of the universe.
The Webb Space Telescope project is a joint project of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency.
