Hubble Space Telescope takes its largest near-infrared image ever
Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The Hubble Space Telescope has taken its largest near-infrared image yet, covering a swath of sky eight times larger than usual for the venerable old space telescope. The new image of distant galaxies could provide a menu of targets for the more powerful James Webb Space Telescope, which also observes in the near-infrared and will come online later this summer. But Webb won’t break the new Hubble record for largest near-infrared image — the newer space telescope is designed not for wide fields of view, but rather to peer deeply at narrow targets, be they the very first galaxies, or the atmospheres of exoplanets. The Hubble 3D-Dash image likely won’t have a true challenger until the launch of Nasa’s next-generation wide field of view infrared observatory, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, in 2027.
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