NASA’s new space telescope recorded his first cosmic images

According to RCO News Agency, These early images show that all spacecraft systems work as expected. “Based on the images we see, we can now say that a group of engineers working on the telescope’s tools have reached their goal,” said Jamie Bock, a chief researcher at Spherex at the California Institute of Technology and NASA’s Jet Technology Laboratory in California.

The Spherex Telescope, which stands for the phrase “The Photometry Sector for the Cosmos, the Re -ionization Age and the Ice Explorers” can be considered as an open -minded version of the James Web Space Telescope. Both work with infrared wavelengths, which means they can look into the objects from cosmic dust cover and explore very distant points of the cosmos that other visible light tools cannot, but they do this in different ways.

If the James Web’s Space Telescope specializes in decoding the complexities of an ancient star, Esfrax is a mapping of all the objects around the star. If we want to be fair, the latest images of Esperix do not show the final results that this spacecraft should be able to produce.

What does this new telescope look at?

The above six images each represent one of the six different Esfrax detectors. The full field of view of Esfrax encompasses the three images above; The same area of ​​the sky is recorded in three lower images.

Each detector is responsible for discovering information in four unique wavelength bands. So, overall, this infrared eye in the sky is capable of studying the world in two stunning bands. In addition, even in each of these six experimental images, there are about 5,000 astronomical sources.

The colors assigned to the images are present in the visible part of the electromagnetic spectrum and are an area where the human eye is sensitive to. However, they all represent infrared wavelengths. The red parts of the image indicate longer wavelengths, while the most purple parts of the image represent shorter wavelengths.

In the visible area of ​​the spectrum, the lower the wavelength, the longer the wavelength. From our point of view on the ground and around it, the light wavelengths emitted from the cosmic objects actually move from the blue part of the spectrum to the red part and then move to the infrared. This is because the expansion of the world forces the wavelength of light to be stretched like rubber strips, while traveling to the corner of our cosmos. That is why infrared astronomy is very important. This is a way to see things that are much farther away. The most ancient performance that was formed just after the fog, which began 1.5 billion years ago.

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