Hundreds of distant galaxies are revealed in an image captured by the Fine Guidance Sensor.
The image was taken by NASA, CSA, and FGS.
On Tuesday, NASA will show off the first science-quality images from its new telescope. The event can be watched on Space.com starting at 10:30 a.m. The sun rises at 1430GMT.
The first photos from the massive space observatory are not expected to be seen by the public. NASA and its partners on the project have offered peeks at what is to come since the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope in December of 2011.
The image above shows 32 hours of observing time from the Fine Guidance Sensor. The device that keeps the observatory pointing at its target isn't one of the key science instruments. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said that the image was the deepest field ever captured.
The gallery will be updated live on Tuesday to show the first images.
The bright blue Earth can be seen in the background in this view captured after the launch of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.
The image was taken by NASA TV.
The image was not taken by the JWST, but by the Ariane 5 rocket that blasted off on December 25, 2011. The view was streamed from a camera that was on the launcher.
The annotated view shows which mirror segments captured which views of HD 84406.
The image was taken by NASA.
The first image was not very interesting. The image was released in February and shows a star called HD 84406. There are 18 golden hexagons that encompass the observatory's massive mirror.
The mirror segments were all askew, as the bright spots were labeled with the segment it represented. The side panels of the mirror that were stowed for launch and unfolded as the observatory trekked out to its station are marked by two circled trios.
A "selfie" shows the 18 segments of the primary mirror as seen from a specialized camera inside the NIRCam instrument.
The image was taken by NASA.
The observatory's first image was a "Selfie" released in February. A special camera built into the NIRCam instrument was used to capture a view of starlight reflecting off one of the mirror segments.
The mirror's segments weren't properly aligned at the time, which is why only one segment is illuminated.
The team corrected positioning errors of its primary mirror segments and updated the alignment of the secondary mirror.
The image was taken by NASA/STScI.
The first step in aligning the mirror segments was to make the observatory's first view look better.
Mission personnel adjusted the segments to pull the images together and put them into a single clear image.
galaxies and stars are in the background in an image taken by the james wbb space telescope
The image is from NASA and theSTScI.
This stunning image of a star was captured in March when the universe was no longer in 18-fold harmony. Only one of the observatory's instruments was properly aligned to the mirror, and that was the NIR cam.
The smudges that surround the star each represent a distant galaxy hint at what scientists and space fans can look forward to from the new observatory.
The picture on the right is clear and sharp compared to the picture on the left.
The image is from NASA/JPL-Caltech.
Older observatories captured images that sparkled in comparison with earlier images. NASA released a vivid comparison of a view from the Mid-Infrared Instrument, or MIRI, and a view of the same patch of the sky as seen by the Spitzer Space Telescope.
When compared to MIRI, the smaller mirror and older instruments of Spitzer show when compared to the larger mirror and older instruments of MIRI.
A region close to the center of our universe was studied by the NIRSpec instrument. In a single exposure, the telescope's multi-object mode packed more than 200 spectrums. Scientists will be able to understand the composition and properties of the gas found between the stars with the help of the horizontal stripes.
The image was taken by NASA/ESA/CSA.
Scientists are eager for images like this, which were taken during late-stage testing of the observatory's NIR Spec instrument.
NIRspec splits up light from any source by wavelength Scientists can use a chemical barcode to identify what is in the sky. The ability to gather spectrum from many different sources at the same time is what makes NIR Spec so powerful.
The Sagittarius-Carina arm of the Milky Way contains the Carina Nebula, which is 7,500 light-years away.
The image was taken by NASA and Penn State.
The images the agency and its partners will release on Tuesday will show five stars. There is a bright cloud of gas and dust located about 7,600 light years away from Earth. A spectrum of an exoplanet called WASP-96 b, a giant, hot world that seems to have no clouds in its atmosphere, has been promised by NASA.
The Southern Ring Nebula, Stephan's Quintet, and an image relying on the mass of a nearby galaxy to bend and amplify light from a more distant target are on the docket.
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