It is over. The first set of images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope are absolutely stunning.
Some of the deepest views of the universe we've ever seen were shown off during a live broadcast by the agency.
NASA officially kicked off full scientific operations after completing the commissioning phase of the revolutionary space telescope.
As the new images arrive, we will be updating this post.
The Hubble Space Telescope successor's first images were unveiled yesterday, the highest resolution view of the spectrum ever produced. NASA administrator Bill Nelson explained during the event that the image shows a small part of the universe.
There is a lot of space in the picture. "Everywhere we look, there's a lot of stars," Jane said.
The most distant galaxies are less than a billion years old.
Half of the mass of Jupiter is composed of gas. It is 1,150 light-years away from Earth and has a star in it.
Nicole Coln, the deputy project scientist for exoplanets, said that it was the first spectrum of a exoplanet taken by the telescope.
Coln explained that the water features aren't as large as they were predicted.
It's too hot and a gas giant, so no solid surface, so we don't expect that planet to be hospitable. There is hope that we will be able to observe atmospheres of Earth-like planets in the future.
A star is dying in a beautiful image.
Marina Koren of The Atlantic said that this one was a good one.
The dying remains of a star can be seen in the planetary nebula. It is roughly half a light-year in diameter.
The gas surrounding the remains of the stars is caused by the nitrogen in the air. The leftover core of the star causes the blue haze.
The set of five galaxies are very far away.
There are hundreds of billions of stars in the universe. Due to their gravity, they are locked in a dance.
Important clues into the evolution of huge structures in the universe can be found in the merging of the galaxies.
Black holes are in the center of the picture.
The nursery is 7,600 light-years away. It's large and bright in the sky.
Several times the mass of the Sun can be found there.
The image shows hundreds of new stars, including jets of bubbling gases expelling as new stars are born. Every dot of light is an individual star, which may have other planets around it.
It is not the last time we will hear from the telescope. These are the first images of scientific observations, and we will see many more.
We are going to be doing discoveries like this every week.
The first full-color JAMES WEBB image just dropped and is beautiful.
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