{"id":165053,"date":"2023-06-03T08:23:07","date_gmt":"2023-06-03T13:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/webb-telescope-just-stared-into-the-heart-of-a-fascinating-galaxy"},"modified":"2023-06-03T08:23:07","modified_gmt":"2023-06-03T13:23:07","slug":"webb-telescope-just-stared-into-the-heart-of-a-fascinating-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/webb-telescope-just-stared-into-the-heart-of-a-fascinating-galaxy","title":{"rendered":"Webb telescope just stared into the heart of a fascinating galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/webb-telescope-just-stared-into-the-heart-of-a-fascinating-galaxy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/james-webb-space-telescope-first-images\" target=\"_self\">James Webb Space Telescope<\/a> is so powerful that it can vividly see stars in a galaxy 17 million light-years away.<\/p>\n<p>Astronomers pointed the most advanced space observatory ever built at the galaxy NGC 5,068, peering deep into its starry core. The greater goal is to better grasp how stars, <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/sun-images-real-solar-telescope\" target=\"_self\">like our energy-providing sun<\/a>, form and evolve in <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/james-webb-space-telescope-massive-galaxies-discovery\" target=\"_self\">galaxies<\/a>. Crucially, Webb views a type of light that\u2019s invisible to the naked eye, called infrared light. These long infrared light waves pierce through thick clouds of cosmic dust and gas, allowing us unprecedented views into galactic hearts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith its ability to peer through the gas and dust enshrouding newborn stars, Webb is the perfect telescope to explore the processes governing star formation,\u201d the European Space Agency, which collaborates on the telescope with <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/nasa\" target=\"_self\">NASA<\/a> and the Canadian Space Agency, wrote. <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/mars-asteroid-jupiter-moons-space\" target=\"_self\">Solar systems<\/a> born enveloped in cosmic dust simply can\u2019t be seen with visible light telescopes like <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/nasa-hubble-black-hole\" target=\"_self\">Hubble<\/a>, the space agency said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The James Webb Space Telescope is so powerful that it can vividly see stars in a galaxy 17 million light-years away. Astronomers pointed the most advanced space observatory ever built at the galaxy NGC 5,068, peering deep into its starry core. The greater goal is to better grasp how stars, like our energy-providing sun, form [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}