CEERS Crop (NIRCam Image)
stsci_2024-134a August 26th, 2024
Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, S. Finklestein (UT Austin), and A. Pagan (STScI)
This image shows a small portion of the field observed by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) for the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) survey. It is filled with galaxies. The light from some of them has traveled for over 13 billion years to reach the telescope.
Some galaxies appear to have grown so massive, so quickly, that simulations couldn’t account for them. However, a new study finds that some of those early galaxies are in fact much less massive than they first appeared. Black holes in some of those galaxies make them appear much brighter and bigger than they really are.
Provider: Space Telescope Science Institute
Image Source: https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2024/news-2024-134
Curator: STScI, Baltimore, MD, USA
Image Use Policy: https://www.stsci.edu/copyright
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- ID
- 2024-134a
- Subject Category
- E.5.1 E.5.3.2 E.6.1
- Subject Name
- CEERS, EGS Field
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, CSA, S. Finklestein (UT Austin), and A. Pagan (STScI)
- Release Date
- 2024-08-26T10:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2024/news-2024-134
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Webb, Webb, Webb, Webb, Webb, Webb
- Instrument
- NIRCam, NIRCam, NIRCam, NIRCam, NIRCam, NIRCam
- Color Assignment
- Blue, Blue, Green, Green, Red, Red
- Band
- Infrared, Infrared, Infrared, Infrared, Infrared, Infrared
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- 1150, 1500, 2000, 2770, 3560, 4440
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- 2000.0
- Reference Value
- 214.92136375263, 52.82637490854
- Reference Dimension
- 8448.00, 4088.00
- Reference Pixel
- 9256.33790396467, 2169.83816584883
- Scale
- -0.00000833536, 0.00000833536
- Rotation
- 49.59746369121
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- World Coordinate System resolved using PinpointWCS 0.9.2 revision 218+ by the Chandra X-ray Center FITS X FITS Y EPO X EPO Y 90.04 574.59 4531.57 2129.38 646.33 673.39 6865.26 2532.25 634.75 125.17 6806.61 233.87 471.83 1006.55 6139.95 3932.71 Center Pixel Coordinates: 4224.00 214.96768894117 2044.00 52.85765486458
- Creator (Curator)
- STScI
- URL
- https://www.stsci.edu/
- Name
- Space Telescope Science Institute Office of Public Outreach
- outreach@stsci.edu
- Telephone
- 410-338-4444
- Address
- 3700 San Martin Drive
- City
- Baltimore
- State/Province
- MD
- Postal Code
- 21218
- Country
- USA
- Rights
- https://www.stsci.edu/copyright
- Publisher
- STScI
- Publisher ID
- stsci
- Resource ID
- STSCI-J-p24134a-f-8448x4088.tif
- Resource URL
- https://mast.stsci.edu/api/latest/Download/file?uri=mast:OPO/product/STSCI_PR_2024-134/STSCI-J-p24134a-f-8448x4088.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2024-10-09T11:22:11-04:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
