The IMAX film Deep Sky hits theaters tomorrow and looks at the journey of the James Webb Space Telescope as it explores the cosmos.
, this mosaic image stretches 340 light-years across. JWST’s Near-Infrared Camera displays the Tarantula Nebula star-forming region in a new light, including tens of thousands of never-before-seen young stars that were previously shrouded in cosmic dust.
“It was a little bit more emotional I thought , to be honest,” Mountain says of seeing the film.does a great job of showing the tense moments when the entire Webb team watched the groundbreaking telescope launch into space, knowing that it was only the beginning. Webb has hundreds of single-point failures, meaning that if something goes wrong as the telescope rockets through space and begins to unfold itself, it would be a big problem.
Once the telescope was in position and its sunshade out, the nervy work had only just begun. Mountain and his team had to get all 18 of Webb’s mirrors aligned so that the cameras could work properly. By combining images of the iconic Pillars of Creation from two cameras aboard JWST, the universe has been framed in its infrared glory. Webb’s near-infrared image was fused with its mid-infrared image, setting this star-forming region ablaze with new details.“The ‘background noise’ was just the sky full of galaxies,” Mountain says. “That’s when I realized, this thing works.”
“All we were doing was tuning the telescope. We expect to see nothing other than one of these single star images with those six spiky things , and in the background were galaxies,” says Mountain. It is when he realized that this project, what he and thousands of others had spent years of their lives building, was not just going to work, it was going to change everything.
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