NASA’s JWST first images: everything you need to know

I'm relieved, joyful, and ecstatic.

This will undoubtedly alter the playing field.

We'll be able to start answering some of those queries for the first time.

that we've always been curious about.

NASA has unveiled the James Webb Space Telescope's first full-color photographs.

The entire world is watching.

Are you prepared to post the first image?

- Let's get started. Let's get started.

And these photographs only scratch the surface of what JWST is capable of.

JWST, the world's largest and most advanced telescope, took two and a half decades to build and launch.

The largest space telescope ever built.

Unlike its predecessor Hubble, Webb can see far into the infrared spectrum.

spectrum, providing an even clearer picture of the first galaxies produced after the Big Bang.

The telescope will help us answer big questions like, "How did our universe begin?"

Are we truly alone out there?

The telescope has had a busy agenda and a few surprises since its December inauguration.

It had enough fuel to go for a while at first.

about a decade, however due to the precision with which it was launched

The telescope used less fuel and increased its lifespan to 20 years.

The telescope had been in commissioning mode for the previous six months, which meant

It is being deployed, cooled down, its mirrors are being aligned, and its instruments are being prepared.

So far, everything has been running smoothly.

Which takes us back to the main event: the first JWST imagery.

First, we have the most detailed and detailed infrared image of our Universe ever taken.

It's a zone teeming with galaxies.

We're seeing this because the light from these faraway objects takes so long to reach us.

They were how they were when the Universe was only a billion years old.

- At first, you notice it and think, wait, that's not much different than Hubble.

But then you remember that this is a completely different set of hues, and you realize that you are actually

looking much deeper than Hubble could ever see.

The Carina Nebula is also a star nursery.

This graphic depicts the formation of stars.

It was photographed by Hubble, but this new perspective shows new stars and mysteries.

We see examples of structures that, to be honest, we have no idea what they are.

What exactly is going on here?

- And with Webb, we'll be able to see far more detail in those stars and actually see them.

even see through the dust into the small dust cocoons

The first stars are formed.

The Southern Ring is located at the opposite end of the star life cycle.

A fading star is surrounded by a zone of cosmic dust and gas.

The telescope captured two pictures of the infrared spectrum in distinct bands, revealing

a sharper glimpse of the binary star at the nebula's center.

Stephan's Quintet is a tight group of five galaxies.

Highlights include two merging galaxies and a region of exceptionally brilliant stars.

Gas is being drawn into a black hole.

Finally, the scientists presented the first spectra of an exoplanet's atmosphere obtained by the telescope.

This graph depicts the makeup of the atmosphere.

of a big, hot planet far from our own Solar System.

This type of data can tell whether a world can support life as we know it. In this case,

In this scenario, we can observe evidence of water vapor.

- This will undoubtedly alter the playing field.

We'll finally be able to comprehend what it's like to live on these distant worlds.

as well as the environment and circumstances on these worlds.

This is only the beginning.

All of these photographs were captured over the course of five days of observation. And there are still 20 more.

Years have passed.

We are at the start of something amazing.

And it appears to some of us here that this has come to an end because

We went live at launch and commissioned it.

But it's already up and running, and we're only getting started.

The next step will be to improve the telescope's performance.

We've already gotten it up and running better than we expected.

We couldn't even identify some of these things when I first started in infrared astronomy 50 years ago.

These are the sources.

Despite this, you can see every feature of this magnificent edifice.

But everything worked out in the end.

It actually outperformed.

It simply outperformed our expectations. So it's the best outcome.

As a result, the coming year will be simply outstanding, with result after result.

After then, there will be more results.

And who knows, we might even receive something we couldn't have predicted.

We have no notion what to expect.

So, what excites you the most as JWST begins its mission?

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