Bill Nelson, the administrator of NASA, told us last week that we'd see the deepest image of our Universe that's ever been taken. Many of you marked the date in your calendar.
The space agency announced over the weekend that they would be releasing one of the first images a day earlier than planned.
You can watch a live stream of the first image released by US President Joe Biden below. The first image will be shared with all of you as soon as possible. We cannot wait.
It is possible to peer back in time to just a hundred million years after the big bang. Thanks to its primary mirror, it is possible to see the ancient, stretched-out light of distant space.
Because the Universe is expanding, light from the first stars is moving into the longer wavelength, which can be seen in never before seen detail.
Nelson said during a press briefing last week at the Space Telescope Science Institute that this is the farthest humans have ever looked.
The Sun is a million miles away from Earth after the launch of the JWST.
Nelson said in the press briefing that it 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 have some questions about where we come from. There is more to come. We are not sure who we are. It will answer some questions that we don't know what they are.
NASA has given us a list of the targets.
There is a constellation called the Carina Nebula.
There is a constellation called the Carina Nebula. Mario Livio is a member of the Hubble 20th anniversary team.
The Carina Nebula is located in the southern constellation of Carina and is one of the biggest and brightest in the sky.
Hubble imaged the Carina Nebula several times and the images are expected to blow Hubble's others away. Hubble is an instrument that uses optical and ultraviolet light.
WasP-96b.
One of the objectives of the project is to look into the atmospheres of planets outside the solar system. The subject of WASP-96b is very interesting and should be the first of many such surveys.
The Southern Ring Nebula is located in the south.
There is a ring of light called the Southern Ring Nebula. The Hubble Heritage Team is made up ofSTScI, AURA, and NASA.
There is a beautiful, glowing blob in the southern constellation of Vela.
Stephan has a quintet.
Stephan has a quintet. The Hubble SM4 ERO Team is part of NASA.
He has been looking further away from home. The formation of Stephan's Quintet is so tight that it doesn't appear real. Only four of the five galaxies are interacting and the fifth is close to us.
SMACS-0723
Webb peered into a patch of sky in the southern constellation of Volans.
There are massive clusters of galaxies in the foreground and SMACS-0723 is a good target for this type of observation. These are like magnifying glasses. Their mass causes the space-time around them to curve with the effect of magnifying light from farther away.
We don't know which of these targets will be the subject of the first image, but we can't wait to find out. Don't forget to watch this space.
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