![]() ![]() Discover the impact that a Carrington Event would have on our society, discover Mars Rovers’ dreams created through AI, and learn the connection between NASA’s aerospace engineering developments and tools we use in our everyday lives.īeyond the Light is equal parts knowledge and imagination grounded in scientific data, brought to life with original artistic expression and latest technology, it is designed to inspire infinite curiosity for what else is possible. With the exquisite universe as its backdrop, you will experience the importance of light in our pursuit of knowledge and the evolution of technology, ranging from Newton’s prism design, to the digital age, to the most recent discoveries of the James Webb Space Telescope, and finally to the possibilities of what is to come.Įxperience six supporting installations that explore the moon, heliophysics, climate science, earthdata, and NASA Spinoffs. NASAs James Webb Space Telescope has released a spectacular new image of a newly forming star about 460 light-years from Earth. The exhibition centers on a 26-minute gorgeous cinematic journey, chronicling how we have observed and experienced light throughout history. Beautiful, educational and interactive, pushes the boundaries of our imagination, celebrating the spirit of exploration and discovery of our universe and creation. Going beyond a tour of familiar imagery, this immersive art experience was developed with the latest technologies, including AI-aided visual production, an original musical score created from galactic data, and stunning imagery and findings from the James Webb Space Telescope. The exhibition submerges you into the timeless story of light and aims to inspire your curiosity for what else is possible. The tiniest red dots, Webb’s infrared specialty, are often the oldest, most distant galaxies.Ignite your imagination beyond what is visible and step into the unseen depths of our universe.īeyond the Light, an original artistic expression of scientific discoveries, is the story of how human innovation has enabled us to see beyond our imaginations and into the furthest reaches of the cosmos.ĪRTECHOUSE worked in collaboration with NASA scientists to interpret the frontier-pushing data NASA collects about our universe, then brought it to life in the highest resolution possible utilizing today’s latest creative technologies and experiential storytelling. White-and-pink spiral galaxies sometimes appear larger than these stars, but are significantly farther away. Blue objects with diffraction spikes are stars, and the closer they are, the larger they appear. Its composite NIRCam ( Near-Infrared Camera) image is made up of several exposures, highlighting distant galaxies and stars. A profusion of extremely distant galaxies dot Webb’s view. Take a moment to linger on the background. Over millions of years the stars in Herbig-Haro 46/47 will form fully - clearing the scene. Its material also causes the stars’ ejections to light up. As ejected material rams into the nebula on the lower left, it takes on wider shapes, because there is more opportunity for the jets to interact with molecules within the nebula. The blue nebula influences the shapes of the orange jets shot out by the central stars. The nebula’s edges transform into a soft orange outline, like a backward L along the right and bottom of the image. Webb’s crisp near-infrared image lets us see through its gauzy layers, showing off a lot more of Herbig-Haro 46/47, while also revealing a wide range of stars and galaxies that lie far beyond it. This is a region of dense dust and gas, known as a nebula. Over millennia, these ejections regulate how much mass the stars retain.ĭon’t miss the delicate, semi-transparent blue cloud. When the stars ‘eat’ too much material in too short a time, they respond by sending out two-sided jets along the opposite axis, settling down the star’s spin, and removing mass from the area. ![]() The stars’ more recent ejections appear as blue, thread-like features, running along the angled diffraction spike that covers the orange lobes.Īctively forming stars ingest the gas and dust that immediately surrounds them in a disc (imagine an edge-on circle encasing them). The two-sided orange lobes were created by earlier ejections from these stars. Targets like this also give researchers insight into how stars gather mass over time, potentially allowing them to model how our own Sun, a low-mass star, formed. Herbig-Haro 46/47 is an important object to study because it is relatively young - only a few thousand years old. They are surrounded by a disc of gas and dust that continues to add to their mass. The stars are buried deeply, appearing as an orange-white splotch. Look for them at the centre of the red diffraction spikes. The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured a high-resolution image of a tightly bound pair of actively forming stars, known as Herbig-Haro 46/47, in near-infrared light.
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