“Oh, good god,” Brammer tweeted of the30-million-light-year-away, spiral body’s hypnotic glow.
In other words, the heavy amethyst hues we see are kind of aesthetically accurate.
Side-by-side comparison of Spitzer/IRAC and JWST/MIRI.
OK, but wait.
Some scientists on Twitter are even announcing they’ve begun submitting papers based on JWST information for peer review.
It’s all happening very, very fast.
According to Engesser, this potential star explosion was caught by the JWST’s Near-Infrared Camera.
Notably, Brammer also aided this team with its analysis.
Pleased to announce the official submission of a transient and possible supernova in JWST NIRCam data!
To the untrained eye, it is acting like a red dot lurking on a pitch black background.
They’ve alsosubmitted a paper for reviewto arXiv.
They posted their preprint yesterday as well!
