The Webb Space Telescope captures Stephan's Quintet in a mosaic of nearly 1,000 images
by Jeremy Gray posted Friday, July 15, 2022 at 15:00 EDT Yesterday, we saw Webb’s incredible photos of the Southern Ring Nebula. On Wednesday, the focus was Webb’s first deep-plane image of SMACS 0723, the sharpest and deepest image of the universe captured so far. Now it’s time to take a look at Stephan’s Quintet, as imaged by the Webb Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and Central Infrared Instrument (MIRI). The Quintet Stephan image is a large mosaic of nearly 1,000 images. This is Webb’s big image to date and contains over 150 million pixels. You can download the full 150MB .TIFF file here. All of these details allowed researchers to investigate how interactions between galaxies drove the evolution of galaxies in the early universe. Stephan’s Quintet (NIRCam and MIRI composite image). “With its powerful infrared vision and extremely high spatial resolution, Webb demonstrates never-before-seen detail in this galaxy cluster. Sparkling clusters of millions of young stars and stellar-b