NASA Webb Telescope
@NASAWebb Jul 29
Who doesn't love a good mystery?! 🔍🔴
Little Red Dots (LRD), first detected by Webb, are very distant, seemed to emerge ~600 million years/mysteriously decline by ~1.5 billion years post-big bang. What if they didn’t disappear, they just evolved?
go.nasa.gov/4h44W5g
A rectangular image with thousands of galaxies of various shapes and colors on the black background of space. Some are noticeably spirals, either face-on or edge-on, while others are blobby ellipticals. Many are too small to discern any structure. One prominent foreground star at top center features Webb’s signature 8-point diffraction spikes. At upper right, a box shows a zoomed in portion of the image. The pullout features a spiral galaxy labeled “WISEA J123635.56+621424.2.” The galaxy has a bright yellow center and faint brown arms speckled with regions of blue that appear to wind clockwise around the galaxy’s core.
ALT A rectangular image with thousands of galaxies of various shapes and colors on the black background of space. Some are noticeably spirals, either face-on or edge-on, while others are blobby ellipticals. Many are too small to discern any structure. One prominent foreground star at top center features Webb’s signature 8-point diffraction spikes. At upper right, a box shows a zoomed in portion of the image. The pullout features a spiral galaxy labeled “WISEA J123635.56+621424.2.” The galaxy has a bright yellow center and faint brown arms speckled with regions of blue that appear to wind clockwise around the galaxy’s core.
Jul 29, 2026 · 2:01 PM UTC
https://x.com/NASAWebb/status/2082466660338762125
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Reddit/reddot is down to the left.