Feast Your Eyes on More Stellar Images From NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope
On Monday, President Joe Biden had the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to unveil the first full-color image delivered by the James Webb Space Telescope: a bright, colorful deep field snapshot of space in the direction of SMACS 0723, a region of the night sky containing a galaxy cluster so massive that it ends up bending light around it. The result is a magnification of stellar objects in the background—distant stars and galaxies of all shapes and sizes, glimmering with brilliance.
Finally, less than a day later, we have the complete set of the first full-color science images, brought to us by the world’s most powerful space observatory.
“It’s an example of what NASA can achieve,” NASA administrator Bill Nelson told reporters Tuesday morning. “It’s one of these great engineering feats—not just for us, but for humanity.”
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