"Just the fact that this mission was decades in preparation and having a textbook-perfect launch. Space Telescope Science Institute scientist Stephanie LaMassa, A&S '08 (MA), '11 (PhD), a branch manager for Webb, describes the capture of these images as a remarkable achievement. Future images from Webb will reveal more about planets in our own solar system, she says. "This is how the oxygen in our bodies was made-in stars, in galaxies," said Jane Rigby, Webb operations project scientist, in the telecast as she described an image of galaxies from more than 13 billion years ago.Īnother image depicts an "extremely hot" exoplanet about the size of Jupiter located 1,000 light-years away, which has the "chemical fingerprint" of water vapor in its atmosphere, according to Knicole Colón, Webb deputy project scientist for exoplanet science. Today, July 12, NASA released several more images during a live broadcast.
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The image covers a patch of sky approximately the size of a grain of sand held at arm's length by someone on the ground "and reveals thousands of galaxies in a tiny sliver of vast universe," according to NASA. President Joe Biden on July 11 released the first image from Webb, of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723, known as Webb's First Deep Field, as it appeared 4.6 billion years ago. NASA teamed up with the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency on Webb, a mission that NASA administrator Bill Nelson says will "fundamentally alter our understanding of the universe." The space telescope, Hubble's successor, will be able to see back in time, capturing images such as the first galaxies that formed after the big bang, and will offer much-more-detailed views of nebulas and star systems in the distant universe. "And so, we're really seeing for the first time what galaxies looked like in the early universe." "We get these amazingly detailed images of distant galaxies and all these tiny little clumps and star clusters that just pop out that we could never see before," he adds. "There were times when we weren't sure if things would work, but they're working spectacularly," says Dan Coe, A&S '04 (MA), '07 (PhD), an astronomer with the Space Telescope Science Institute and instrument scientist on Webb.
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