Incredible new images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, have given us the furthest — and clearest — view ever of deep space. The stunning pictures show the most comprehensive view of the universe we've ever seen, including the remnants of a dying star, a nebula where stars are born, and a cluster of distant galaxies. Joey Roulette, a reporter for Reuters, joined Cheddar News to explain the images captured and what scientists expect to learn from them. "Really that is the bread and butter of the James Webb Space Telescope," he said of the SMACS image release, the deepest image taken of the cosmos. "It's this $10 billion dollar observatory that was launched to do exactly that. We're looking at spectra in that little field and that big field actually, and astronomers can really glean a lot from that on the creation of our universe, the movement of Galaxies."

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Distant Galaxies Revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope

So to take us through some of these images from the most powerful and largest space observatory ever built is Joey roulette. Space reporter from Reuters, thank you so much for joining us Joey. I gotta ask you, you know that James Webb telescope captured several amazing images. I'm sure we're gonna all use them as our savor screen on our computers real soon. But let's start with going through some of these images and telling us a little bit more about them. Starting with the web's first deep field. Tell us about this photo. Yeah. So I mean same. I've already changed my phone background to that exact image right there and S. M. A. C. S. Yeah, it's really incredible. Um what we're looking at right there is the deepest image we've ever taken as the cosmos. And we're seeing technically if you zoom in it's very high resolution Um the oldest Galaxies ever recorded. And really that is the bread and butter of the James Webb Space Telescope. It's this $10 billion dollar observatory that was launched to do exactly that we're looking at spectra in that little field and that big field actually and we can really astronomers can really glean a lot from that on the creation of our universe, the movement of Galaxies. And one special thing I just want to say about that you noticed there's like kind of a circular distortion to it that is kind of the existence or the evidence of dark matter. It's a complex kind of like mass in the universe that um it's very hard to to see and scientists know very little about it, but that image, you can kind of see it at play there in a way that has never really been captured before. And it's just a really incredible image. One of five that were released this week. It doesn't even look real. It's so beautiful. And you know, we did see images from the southern ring of nebula as well, really providing scientists with more clues into the fate of stars at the end of their cycle. Um That is when they die. So what else does it show? Yeah, I mean the the southern ring nebula, that's one of my favorites. Um it's you know, it's kind of hard to explain. But yeah, what we're looking at there is the death of a star in this expanding kind of cloud of gas and um you know, the James Webb space telescope has a number of cameras on it. And a lot of these are shot in the infrared and so when you toggle different kinds of sensors and ways to look at it, you can kind of see different colors and get different perspectives of it and draw different conclusions if you're an astronomer. But yeah, that one is pretty, pretty incredible in that, you know, kind of shows the death of star in action. Um and you know, I'm sure, you know, a number of astronomers can kick out way more about that, but you know, in my opinion, just looks pretty cool and the colors are awesome. I didn't even know, maybe it's just me. I didn't even know a lot of these things existed like Stephan's quintet, which is an image of five different Galaxies. We see all that. There's one photo. What can you tell us about this? And am I the only one I know you knew, but my only one, no, I mean, you know, a lot of people don't know about these things in real quick stevens quintet. I mean that one's amazing because it's a group of about five Galaxies and we see four there that are kind of locked in this cosmic dance, as Nasa says, um repeated encounters and they're just kind of swirling around and right there, James webb space telescope caught a glimpse of that. And it's it's funny that you say, you know, you didn't know about this. A lot of people didn't know about this. And one of the special things about web is that it's bringing to light things that have existed of course in the universe forever. We just needed a telescope to kind of go look at it. That's to quote jane Rigby an astronomer who said that something like that yesterday. Um and you know, it's a big function of the James webb of course is getting, you know, new clues on astronomy and expanding the scientific understanding of the universe. But also it's bringing everyday folks like you and I to the realization that there's a lot out there and there's a lot of stuff to look at. So yeah, well, I'm so happy that Nasa released these photos and if you want to see more of them, you can go to their website Joey roulette Space Reporter for orders. Thank you so much for joining us.