Because It’s Friday – NASA 2022

It is still early enough in the year to post retrospectives of 2022. Here is one by Chris Impey, (University Distinguished Professor of Astronomy, University of Arizona) in The Conversation about the missions NASA ran in 2022:

NASA’s busiest year in decades – an astronomer sums up the dizzying array of missions in 2022 – The Conversation

The highly detailed image above was among the first produced by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope in 2022 and shows the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723. This is what NASA says about the image:

“This slice of the vast universe covers a patch of sky approximately the size of a grain of sand held at arm’s length by someone on the ground.”

Pretty amazing!

Further Reading

First Images from the James Webb Space Telescope – NASA