James Webb Telescope

After unveiling the clearest view yet of the distant cosmos, the James Webb Space Telescope has more to come.

Thanks to an efficient launch, NASA estimates Webb has enough propellant for a 20-year life, as it works in concert with the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes to answer fundamental questions about the cosmos. WASHINGTON - After unveiling the clearest view yet of the distant cosmos, the James Webb Space Telescope has more to come. In this NASA handout image NASA Administrator Bill Nelson describes the first full-color image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. AFP/Bill INGALLS

NASA's newest and most powerful observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope, will release its first color picture on July 12 at 10:30am EST.

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There are more scenes of the cosmos coming on Tuesday morning from the largest space observatory ever built.

Adam Riess, a Nobel-Prize winning cosmologist at the Space Telescope Science Institute and Johns Hopkins University, said the new Webb image had detected objects a trillionth the brightness of the star Vega, a astronomical standard for the magnitude of a star. The cluster’s enormous gravitation field acts as a lens, warping and magnifying the light from galaxies behind it that would otherwise be too faint and faraway to see. Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA’s associate administrator for space science, described this image as the deepest view yet into the past of our cosmos. Webb is expected to smash that record, again and again starting with this image of SMACS 0723. In the first Webb image released by President Biden and NASA yesterday, some of the distant galaxies are warped into curves. Such a spectrum is the sort of detail that could reveal what is in that world’s atmosphere. For the astronomers, engineers and officials watching on Earth, the deployment was a tense time. It includes a massive cluster of galaxies about 4 billion light-years from here that astronomers use as a kind of cosmic telescope. Last week, NASA released another picture taken by the telescope’s fine guidance sensor, a camera meant just to lock on surrounding stars for reference and keep the spacecraft’s science instruments pointed at exactly the right place. In a brief event at the White House on Monday, President Biden and NASA introduced Webb’s first scientific image, which goes by the name of SMACS 0723. It is a patch of sky visible from the Southern Hemisphere on Earth and often visited by Hubble and other telescopes in search of the deep past. Starting in the late morning, the agency will reveal a series of images from the largest and most powerful space observatory ever launched.

NASA James Webb Space Telescope First Image Live Updates: NASA will reveal more images of the universe taken from its James Webb Space Telescope.

The images will also be available to download in high-resolution from the NASA website. The NASA Live YouTube channel will also broadcast the announcement. NASA will be a hosting a livestream later today where more images are expected.

Analysis: astronomers are hoping future images will show 'cosmic dawn', the forming of the first galaxies 13.5bn years ago.

For researchers, the waves of relief are now waves of excitement: now the real work begins. Webb will do more than look back to the early stirrings of the universe. Against the odds, the observatory made it to the launch pad, reached its destination unscathed, and appears to be operating beautifully. On Tuesday, Nasa will release more images to give a flavour of what the telescope can do. Nasa’s Hubble defined our view of the heavens for the past 30 years, and now Webb, its successor, is poised to shape our understanding for many decades to come. Webb’s impressive performance comes from its remote position in space, a spot 1m miles from Earth called the second Lagrange point, or L2, its large mirror, and the extreme sensitivity of its infrared instruments.

Astronomers have pushed NASA to take the name of Mr. Webb, a former administrator of the agency, off the telescope, saying he was involved in homophobic ...

But that was not enough for the critics. The answer was no, but he did not talk to any L.G.B.T.Q. astronomers. Mr. Norton appealed and won a landmark case against such discrimination in 1969. NASA said it would investigate the claims and publish a report. Subsequently, last September, Bill Nelson, the current NASA administrator and a former Florida senator, announced that he saw no need to change the name. He was a staunch champion of space science.

President Joe Biden will share the first image from the James Webb Space Telescope on Monday at the White House at 5 p.m. ET. The rest of Webb's first ...

These will be the first of many images to come from Webb, the most powerful telescope ever launched into space. "Webb can see backwards in time just after the big bang by looking for galaxies that are so far away, the light has taken many billions of years to get from those galaxies to ourselves," said Jonathan Gardner, Webb deputy senior project scientist at NASA, during a recent news conference. Webb's study of the giant gas planet WASP-96b will be the first full-color spectrum of an exoplanet. The space telescope's view of Stephan's Quintet will reveal the way galaxies interact with one another. Called gravitational lensing, this will create Webb's first deep field view of incredibly old and distant, faint galaxies. Located 7,600 light-years away, the Carina Nebula is a stellar nursery, where stars are born.

The James Webb telescope will look at the Universe in the infrared, while Hubble studies it primarily at ultraviolet wavelengths, according to NASA.

The first image taken by the Webb telescope shows crystal-clear picture of deep space and was presented in full colour. "Webb often gets called the replacement for Hubble, but we prefer to call it a successor. This is a new era in Astronomy and we are lucky to be witnessing it unfold :)— Astrophile (@nirashanpradhan) pic.twitter.com/s8klI32MGh July 12, 2022

Washington — US President Joe Biden, pausing from political pressures to bask in the glow of the cosmos, on Monday released the debut photo from Nasa's ...

“And today we’re going to get a glimpse of the first light to shine through that window: light from other worlds, orbiting stars far beyond our own. That makes it just 800-million years younger than the Big Bang, the theoretical flashpoint that set the expansion of the known universe in motion some 13.8-billion years ago. All five of Webb’s introductory targets were previously known to scientists. The $9bn Webb observatory, the largest and most powerful space science telescope launched, was designed to peer through the cosmos to the dawn of the known universe, ushering in a revolutionary era of astronomical discovery. The first full-colour image from Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope, a revolutionary apparatus designed to peer through the cosmos to the dawn of the universe, shows the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723, in a composite made from images at different wavelengths taken with a near-infrared camera. Washington — US President Joe Biden, pausing from political pressures to bask in the glow of the cosmos, on Monday released the debut photo from Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope — an image of a galaxy cluster revealing a detailed glimpse of the early universe.

The James Webb Space Telescope's first images will be shared on Tuesday, including a nebula where stars are born, the color spectrum of an exoplanet and the ...

The space telescope's view of Stephan's Quintet will reveal the way galaxies interact with one another. Webb's study of the giant gas planet WASP-96b will be the first full-color spectrum of an exoplanet. The image, taken by Webb's Near-Infrared Camera, is composed of images taken at different wavelengths of light over a collective 12.5 hours. Located 7,600 light-years away, the Carina Nebula is a stellar nursery, where stars are born. The spectrum will include different wavelengths of light that could reveal new information about the planet, such as whether it has an atmosphere. Called gravitational lensing, this created Webb's first deep field view that includes incredibly old and faint galaxies.

Astronomy enthusiasts, get ready to be dazzled by four new photos from deep space captured by the $10-billion James Webb Space Telescope.

The planet, which is approximately 1,000 light years away from Earth and does not exist in our solar system, is about the size of Jupiter but with half the mass. Part of the image will consist of light from not too long after the Big Bang. “Just think of what we’re going to learn.” “It’s not an image. Later in the day, at 12:30 p.m. ET, NASA will host a live Q&A with members of the media and a selection of the 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. “You ain’t seen nothing yet,” he added, talking up today’s images.

Astronomers and space fans have been waiting years for this moment: The James Webb Space Telescope team has finally made public a handful of stunning images ...

This image of a tight grouping of five galaxies known as Stephan’s Quintet shows in detail the first compact galaxy group ever discovered. JWST is able to infer the presence of clouds and hazes around the planet. Many of Hubble’s now-iconic images were also of nebulae, like the Crab Nebula and Horsehead Nebula. WASP-96 is a gas giant about half the size of Jupiter, and is about 1,150 light-years away. The new images provide a taste of what scientists can achieve with the powerful telescope. This is definitely the hors d'oeuvres, and the main course will be coming out over the months and years ahead,” says Jonathan Lunine, a Cornell University astrobiologist on the JWST team.

The first full-color images from NASA's James Webb telescope have been released, giving us the deepest look into the universe and how the first galaxies ...

Biden to release first-full color image from James Webb telescope A test image taken by the James Webb Telescope offers a preview of what's to come ahead of the release of the first full-color images. - Biden to release first-full color image from James Webb telescope