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.
They should contract out these shows to SpaceX. Sloppy!
Someone wrote that the most unbelievable thing in the movie Independence Day wasn’t that aliens attacked earth, but that Jeff Goldblum’s laptop modem had a successful handshake with the mothership’s modem.
Yes, because the media, george soros, biden, and all the usual suspects have told you that Ukraine must be saved... and they have all stopped lying to us!
“They named a space craft after a one term senator from Virginia?”
No. They will be dropping the James shortly. Then as an homage to Chelsea’s real dad the last two NASA orbital telescopes will be Webb Hubbell.
LOL, glad I’m the only one in the office today.
Hubble is on top.
They’ve turned this serious enterprise into a morning talk show replete with small talk, toothy grins, and t-shirt wearing anchors, competing for the same crowd as Good Morning America. Another sign of decline.
Nerds on parade.......................
Those poor people.
The host Michelle has had several cups of coffee. Emphasis on several.
The giggling and cheerleading is silly. Oh well...this is a nice break from all the bad news.
It is bread and circuses for the masses. The bad news is not going away.
“Here is the REAL first image.”
Now I’m going to have a hard time getting to sleep tonight.
Thanks. Lol.
JWST on the left, Hubble on the right?
Aperture is everything, and the real fun is in the IR.
The dimmer star at the center of this scene has been sending out rings of gas and dust for thousands of years in all directions, and NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed for the first time that this star is cloaked in dust.
Two cameras aboard Webb captured the latest image of this planetary nebula, cataloged as NGC 3132, and known informally as the Southern Ring Nebula. It is approximately 2,500 light-years away.
Webb will allow astronomers to dig into many more specifics about planetary nebulae like this one – clouds of gas and dust expelled by dying stars. Understanding which molecules are present, and where they lie throughout the shells of gas and dust will help researchers refine their knowledge of these objects.
Stephan’s Quintet, a visual grouping of five galaxies, is best known for being prominently featured in the holiday classic film, “It’s a Wonderful Life.” Today, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reveals Stephan’s Quintet in a new light. This enormous mosaic is Webb’s largest image to date, covering about one-fifth of the Moon’s diameter. It contains over 150 million pixels and is constructed from almost 1,000 separate image files. The information from Webb provides new insights into how galactic interactions may have driven galaxy evolution in the early universe. With its powerful, infrared vision and extremely high spatial resolution, Webb shows never-before-seen details in this galaxy group. Sparkling clusters of millions of young stars and starburst regions of fresh star birth grace the image. Sweeping tails of gas, dust and stars are being pulled from several of the galaxies due to gravitational interactions. Most dramatically, Webb captures huge shock waves as one of the galaxies, NGC 7318B, smashes through the cluster.
They saved possibly the best image for last. A gigantic stellar ‘nursery’ of gas and dust with hundreds of new stars being formed. These stars could not previously be seen by other telescopes. Amazing, really.
This landscape of “mountains” and “valleys” speckled with glittering stars is actually the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region called NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. Captured in infrared light by NASA’s new James Webb Space Telescope, this image reveals for the first time previously invisible areas of star birth. Called the Cosmic Cliffs, Webb’s seemingly three-dimensional picture looks like craggy mountains on a moonlit evening. In reality, it is the edge of the giant, gaseous cavity within NGC 3324, and the tallest “peaks” in this image are about 7 light-years high. The cavernous area has been carved from the nebula by the intense ultraviolet radiation and stellar winds from extremely massive, hot, young stars located in the center of the bubble, above the area shown in this image.
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