The first image released by the James Webb Space Telescope is amazing. We're about to get some more and if you thought the view of thousands of galaxies was impressive, you're wrong.
Scientists will show the rest of the first full-color images one by one in a NASA live stream on July 12.
The live stream can be watched below.
Don't stress, for those who were frustrated with the lengthy delay ahead of yesterday's first image release by US President Joe Biden, you weren't the only one. NASA scientists are very prompt when it comes to press briefings and this one should start on time.
If you need to remember how that first picture looked, here it is again.
The space agency, as well as the CSA, and theSTScI, are involved.
The image shows a patch of sky that is roughly the size of a grain of sand and contains thousands of galaxies.
It's a deep field into the distant Universe, and it's known as SMACS-0723
As you can see in the comparison below, the detail provided by JWST is a huge improvement over Hubble's previous images.
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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.
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
For its first deep field, Webb peered into a patch of sky in the south 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.
The first full-color images of the JWST were covered in previous articles.
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