On Monday, the world got a glimpse of what the space telescope can do. NASA and its partners are serving a full meal on Tuesday. The images from the largest and most powerful space observatory will be revealed in the late morning.
The images can be seen on this blog. You need to know what to look for.
At 9:45 a.m., NASA will start a series of opening remarks. The pictures will be shown at 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday. There is a NASA space flight center in Maryland. There is a live video stream at NASA TV or a video feed provided here.
At 12:30 a.m. NASA will host a live Q and A with members of the media and a selection of experts from the agency as well as representatives of the Canadian Space Agency and European Space Agency which have made contributions to the telescope and its mission
In a brief event at the White House on Monday, President Biden and NASA introduced the first scientific image from the James Bond movie, "Skyfall." It is a patch of sky that can be seen from the southern hemisphere and is often visited by Hubble and other telescopes. Astronomers use a kind of telescope called a Cosmic Telescope, which is four billion light years away. The light from the galaxies behind the cluster is warped and magnified by the cluster's gravitation field.
NASA's associate administrator for space science described the image as the deepest view yet into the past of our universe.
The image will not hold the deepest record for a long time but it shows the power of the telescope.
The images were selected by a small team of experts to show off the capabilities of the new telescope.
The Southern Ring Nebula is a shell of gas ejected from a dying star about 2,000 light-years from here and the Carina Nebula is a huge expanse of gas and stars.
Stephan's Quintet is a group of galaxies that are close to each other in the constellation Pegasus.
A detailed spectrum of WASP-96b, a gas giant half the mass of Jupiter, will be released by the team. It is possible to see what is in that world's atmosphere.
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