Posted on 07/12/2022 7:16:23 AM PDT by Red Badger
On Monday, July 11, President Joe Biden released one of the James Webb Space Telescope’s first images in a preview event at the White House in Washington. NASA, in partnership with ESA (European Space Agency) and CSA (Canadian Space Agency), will release the full set of Webb’s first full-color images and spectroscopic data during a televised broadcast beginning at 10:30 a.m. EDT (14:30 UTC) on Tuesday, July 12, from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Learn more about how to watch.
This first image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date. Known as Webb’s First Deep Field, this image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 is overflowing with detail. Thousands of galaxies – including the faintest objects ever observed in the infrared – have appeared in Webb’s view for the first time. 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. Learn more about this image (en español).
distant galaxies appear as bright glowing spots in this Webb telescope image, with some smeared by gravitational lensing; foreground stars appear bright with six-pointed diffraction spikes, owing to the shape of Webb's mirrors
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI
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Released one by one, the first images from the world’s largest and most powerful space telescope will demonstrate Webb at its full power, ready to begin its mission to unfold the infrared universe.
The first images will be added to this page as they are released.
For more about Webb’s current status, visit the “Where Is Webb?” tracker.
I’d rather have the first images of Hunter’s lap top.
They are posted on a Chinese porn site....................
I’m sure there are images on Hunter’s laptop I would really not care to see.
Wow!! That is TOTALLY worth billions of dollars.
That “image” could never never be created otherwise.
far out...
Beautiful!
I’d rather see billions go into that than given to the war effort in Ukraine.
Are they running late?
Watching, I keep waiting, still anticipating...
Take my breath away.
However, from past performance, it will have immense consequences.
They named a space craft after a one term senator from Virginia?
When will it start broadcasting the “historical documents”?
Some of them are being released today.
“We’re having some trouble with the signal from Canada.”
LOL. They can clearly image a galaxy 13 billion light-years away, but can’t reach Canada.
Nope...led NASA in 1960s, despised by LGBT activists for tossing fags out of the State Dept
Well, it kind of was. Hubble's DFS was a speck of sky the size of a dime held at arm's length.
Webb's DFS is a speck of sky the size of a grain of sand. Quite a huge leap. Yes, a waste of money for some. But others feel it worth it.
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