James Webb telescope: NASA to reveal more photos of exoplanet, stars, galaxies
Global News
Astronomy enthusiasts, get ready to be dazzled by four new photos from deep space captured by the $10-billion James Webb Space Telescope.
For the first time, humanity will be able to feast its eyes on the far reaches of space — in the clearest, sharpest photos ever taken of the universe around us.
After U.S. President Joe Biden had the honour of unveiling the first full-coloured photograph captured by the $10-billion James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) on Monday, NASA is getting set to release the full slate of beauty shots Tuesday morning.
The images to be released Tuesday include a view of a giant gaseous planet outside our solar system, two images of a nebula where stars are born and die in spectacular beauty, and an update of a classic image of five tightly clustered galaxies that dance around each other.
NASA plans to release the images during a livestream beginning at 9:45 a.m. ET.
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.
The photo Biden revealed Monday was a “deep field” image, filled with stars and massive galaxies in the foreground distorting the light of the objects behind, telescoping them and making faint and extremely distant galaxies visible. Part of the image will consist of light from not too long after the Big Bang.