Webb Data Reveals Dark Matter
3 Min Read Webb Data Reveals Dark Matter PIA26702 Credits: NASA/STScI/J. DePasquale/A. Pagan Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal Webb Data Reveals Dark Matter Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About Downloads Webb Data Reveals Dark Matter PNG (42.87 MB) This image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, containing nearly 800,000 galaxies, is overlaid with a map of dark matter, represented in blue. Brighter blue areas indicate a higher density of dark matter. Researchers used Webb data to find the dark matter — which is invisible — via its gravitational influence on regular matter. The area of sky shown here is 0.54 square degrees (about 2½ times the size of the full Moon) and located in the constellation Sextans. Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) peered at this region for a total of about 255 hours. Dark matter doe...
