![]() “You feel like the sky is opening up, and you’re in a moment of time and space that you’ll forever remember because you saw the universe as nobody has seen it yet,” Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA’s associate administrator for the science mission directorate, told reporters on June 29, before the images were released. ![]() These first images are fresh views of the cosmos through an entirely new set of eyes-images that, in addition to being beautiful, symbolize JWST’s power to revolutionize our understanding of the universe and our place within its boundless cosmic sea. Their release also marks the beginning of official science observations, which in the telescope’s first year will focus on ancient galaxies, faraway alien worlds, the life cycle of stars, newborn planets, and celestial bodies in our own solar system.įor the team behind the pictures, pulling back the universe’s curtain and drinking in the new cosmic light was a moment of profound significance. These first full-color images showcase JWST’s capabilities and span the breadth of science instruments aboard the observatory. We risked so much to say we’re going to go do this, and it’s so near impossible.” “It’s just impossible to convey how hard it really was. “I am so thrilled and so relieved, this was so hard,” says NASA’s John Mather, JWST’s senior project scientist. The others, unveiled July 12 at Goddard, capture snapshots of curvy, colliding galaxies the diaphanous ring blown by a dying star the atmospheric spectrum of a hot, Jupiter-like exoplanet and the radiant, chaotic clouds engulfing a stellar nursery. “There’s a sharpness and a clarity we’ve never had.” We can’t take blank sky-everywhere we look there’s galaxies everywhere,” says NASA’s Jane Rigby. ![]() That’s something that has been true for every image we’ve gotten with Webb. “It’s really gorgeous, and it’s teeming with galaxies. It depicts a pocket of space populated by ancient galaxies, representing the deepest-ever view of the cosmos. The telescope’s first image was revealed Monday evening at the White House by U.S. A packed auditorium greeted each image as it was unveiled with cheers, oohs , and ahs. GREENBELT, MARYLANDThe first full-color images from NASA’s sharpest eye in the sky, the flagship James Webb Space Telescope, were unveiled to the world today from the space agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland.
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