Recent comments from the agency's chief suggest they'll be something very special, as NASA prepares to unveil the first high-resolution images captured by the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope.
Speaking at a press conference this week, NASA boss Bill Nelson said, "If you think about that, this is farther than humanity has ever moved." We are only beginning to understand what the man can do.
The most advanced space observatory ever built will explore objects in the solar system and atmospheres of exoplanets, giving us clues as to whether their atmospheres are similar to our own. We are about to learn more about planets that are in the vicinity of other stars.
NASA has already shared a number of images that have been beamed back from the space telescope. The images that will be released in July will be of the highest quality, giving us a clear idea of the observatory's true capabilities and exciting possibilities.
In the first year of the mission, NASA will be focusing on Jupiter and its rings and moons, as well as capturing imagery to help scientists learn more about how stars form. The mission, a decades-long effort involving NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Canadian Space Agency, will give scientists with a new trove of data that is expected to take our understanding of the universe and its origins to a new, higher level.
How excited are you about #Webb’s first images? In exchange for Canada’s contribution to the space telescope, Canadian scientists are some of the first to study the data it will collect. Here’s what they will observe and how. 👇
🎥: CSA, NASA, Northrop Grumman, ESA pic.twitter.com/Em6eiI8tJK
— Canadian Space Agency (@csa_asc) June 27, 2022
As we near the end of preparing the observatory for science, we are on the verge of an incredibly exciting period of discovery about our universe.
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