James Webb Telescope

On Monday, the first image from the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope will be presented to the public.

The James Webb telescope’s ability to see far into the infrared spectrum will afford scientists a clearer view into the deep cosmos than has been possible before. As a result, the telescope requires a massive sun shield to protect against solar radiation. The mirrors, cameras and other instruments that need to be kept ultracold for infrared astronomy are protected from the sun’s radiation by a five-layered, tennis-court-sized sun shield. The Webb can obtain an “ultra deep field” image by focusing on one dark patch of space for a protracted period and gathering the faint light that hits the mirrors. Regardless of whatever wow factor is generated by the new images, the significant fact is that the Webb works. “The capabilities of Webb are truly out of this world.”

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has produced the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date. Known as Webb's First Deep Field, ...

The pictures show elements of the universe as they were 13bn years ago, reshaping our understanding of the cosmos.

The system has so far “performed flawlessly”, according to Marcia Rieke, professor of astronomy at University of Arizona. Nasa said Webb has five initial cosmic targets for observation, including the Carina nebula, a sort of celestial nursery where stars form. “Webb is bigger than Hubble so that it can see fainter galaxies that are further away.” “We are looking back more than 13 billion years,” he said, adding that more images to be released by the space agency will reach back further, to around 13.5 billion years, close to the estimated start point of the universe itself. “We are going back almost to the beginning,” he said. Joe Biden, who unveiled the image at a White House event, called the moment “historic” and said it provides “a new window into the history of our universe”.

Thanks, Joe. At the White House on Monday evening, President Joe Biden revealed a cosmic image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope, a last-minute ...

This allows us to see far more of the universe. The telescope will peer at stars and galaxies that formed over 13 billion years ago, just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang. It's a preview of what's to come from a telescope that will peer into profoundly deep space at some of the first stars and galaxies ever born. "Thousands of galaxies – including the faintest objects ever observed in the infrared – have appeared in Webb’s view for the first time. "With this telescope, it's really hard not to break records," Thomas Zurbuchen, an astrophysicist and NASA’s associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate, recently said at a press conference. The first image is a view of galaxies in extremely deep space.

President Joe Biden on Monday will reveal the first image from NASA's new space telescope — the deepest view of the cosmos ever captured.

That shot is likely to be be filled with lots of stars, with massive galaxies in the foreground distorting the light of the objects behind, telescoping them and making faint and extremely distant galaxies visible. It found the light wave signature of an extremely bright galaxy in 2016. That image will be followed Tuesday by the release of four more galactic beauty shots from the telescope’s initial outward gazes. “It’s not an image. Part of the image will be of light from not too long after the Big Bang. The first image from the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope is going to show the farthest humanity has ever seen in both time and distance, closer to the dawn of the universe and the edge of the cosmos.

The picture will come from NASA's new, $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope. NASA had planned to release it tomorrow as part of a collection of the first ...

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The first science image from the James Webb Space Telescope, presented by US president Joe Biden on 11 July, is the deepest and highest-resolution infrared ...

This first image is a tantalising hint of what’s to come from JWST, in the form of both more pictures and detailed observations of the universe. This first image is a region of space called SMACS 0723, which contains what astronomers call a gravitational lens. JWST launched from French Guiana at the end of 2021 and arrived in its final orbit around the sun in early 2022.

Academics have long petitioned Nasa to rename the space telescope, given historical accusations linking Webb to anti-LGBT policies.

“The observatory will produce amazing science and gorgeous images, certainly the equal of anything Hubble has done,” Plait tweeted. “A lot of astronomers are very unhappy the observatory is named after him,” wrote the American astronomer Phil Plait in his Bad Astronomy newsletter. The telescope’s name has been criticised by many scientists amid allegations that Webb was linked to persecution of LGBTQ+ people in the 1950s and 1960s.

A deep field of distant galaxies, some dating back to the first billion years after the Big Bang, is the first full-color image to come from NASA's JWST.

“As a steadfast supporter of Webb and its mission, I am elated to see this image today — an image that has been 20 years of hard work in the making.” “This is just a first glimpse of what Webb can do,” said Macarena Garcia Marin, ESA instrument scientist for a mid-infrared instrument on JWST called MIRI, in an ESA statement. “If you held a grain of sand on the tip of your finger at arm’s length, that is the part of the universe you’re seeing. Biden appeared pleased by what he saw and by the performance of JWST. “It symbolizes the relentless spirit of American ingenuity and it shows what we can achieve, what more we can discover,” he said of the space telescope, which finally launched last December after billions of dollars of cost overruns and years of schedule delays. The Big Bang took place an estimated 13.8 billion years ago, meaning those distant galaxies date back to when the universe was less than a billion years old. The image shows a galaxy cluster called SMACS 0723 about 4.5 billion light-years away.

Image from world's largest and most powerful space telescope shows 'galaxies once invisible to us', NASA says.

NASA is collaborating on Webb with the European and Canadian space agencies. The collection also includes two very different sets of galaxy clusters. It found the light wave signature of an extremely bright galaxy in 2016. “And it’s a view that we’ve never seen before.” “Light from other worlds, orbiting stars far beyond our own,” Biden said. Previewed by@POTUSon July 11, it shows galaxies once invisible to us.

The months-long process of preparing NASA's James Webb Space Telescope for science is now complete. All of the seventeen ways or 'modes' to operate Webb's ...

Observers are going to be very pleased with the data they receive, and I am extremely happy with how 20 years of work by my team are now realized in amazing performance,” said Marcia Rieke, principal investigator for the NIRCam instrument and regents professor of astronomy, University of Arizona. In addition to capturing detailed imagery of the universe, NIRCam is the observatory’s main wavefront sensor that is used to fine-tune the telescope’s optics. Each of Webb’s four scientific instruments has multiple modes of operation, utilizing customized lenses, filters, prisms, and specialized machinery that needed to be individually tested, calibrated, and ultimately verified in their operational configuration in space before beginning to capture precise scientific observations of the universe.

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. Launched in December 2021 from French Guiana on an Ariane 5 rocket, Webb is orbiting the Sun at a distance of a million miles (1.6 million kilometers) from Earth, in a region of space called the second Lagrange point. The next wave of images on Tuesday will reveal details about the atmosphere of a faraway gas planet, a " stellar nursery" where stars form, a "quintet" of galaxies locked in a dance of close encounters, and the cloud of gas around a dying star.

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.

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

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.

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