There are “many, many galaxies outside of our own Milky Way,” Britt said. It could be a merger of two galaxies that, at probably billions of light-years away, are much farther away than Herbig-Haro 46/47, said Christopher Britt, education and outreach scientist in the office of public outreach at the Space Telescope Science Institute, which manages the Webb telescope’s science operations.
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When and how to watch the Perseid meteor shower In this 30 second exposure, a meteor streaks across the sky during the annual Perseid meteor shower, Wednesday, Aug. “It tells you immediately that it’s not a star,” he said of the question-mark-shaped phenomenon. The Webb telescope usually allows you to see six or eight stellar “prongs” if you look closely, Caplan added. It’s called diffraction from basically the edges of the mirrors and the struts that support the sort of camera in the middle.” “Stars always have these really big spikes, and that’s because stars are point-like. “The very first thing you can rule out is that it’s a star in the Milky Way,” said Matt Caplan, assistant professor of physics at Illinois State University.
The cosmic question mark hasn’t been closely observed or studied, so scientists aren’t exactly sure about the object’s origins and makeup.īut they do have a few ideas based on its shape and location.
The Webb telescope illuminates information about the origins of our universe, but the appearance of this mysterious object in the background of this image leaves more questions than answers. The question mark-shaped object could be the interaction of two galaxies, experts said.
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