Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy Casey DeRoo, appeared on Iowa Public Radio's River to River program on July 26, talking about the latest discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope, what we've learned about black holes, and how galaxies are formed.
The James Webb Telescope doesn't just offer views into the cosmos. The telescope has given insight into space's most intriguing mysteries — though often leading to even more questions.
Two years ago this July, the world was mesmerized by the clearest and deepest look yet into the cosmos — images made possible by the James Webb Space Telescope.
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Image: DeRoo talked about the distorted spiral galaxy at center of the image, the Penguin, and the compact elliptical galaxy at left, the Egg, are locked in an active embrace. A new near- and mid-infrared image from the James Webb Space Telescope, taken to mark its second year of science, shows that their interaction is marked by a faint upside-down U-shaped blue glow. The pair are known jointly as Arp 142. Credit: NASA and the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)