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Launched: Dec. 25, 2021. First images revealed: July 12, 2022. Follow along as the world's most powerful space telescope continues to #UnfoldTheUniverse!
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NASA Webb Telescope
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To look into other worlds, we start by working together on our own planet.
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provided the science instrument that allowed Webb to reveal water vapor and evidence of clouds on WASP-96 b — an exoplanet previously believed to be cloudless! Watch ⬇️
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Oh wow! 🤩 Canada’s NIRISS on #Webb has found water in the atmosphere of exoplanet WASP-96 b! 💧 ☁️ Check it out 👇 Credit: CSA, NASA, ESA, STScI, Christine Daniloff/MIT, Julien de Wit, NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt, T. Pyle
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From a spark of an idea to the world’s most powerful space telescope… Our Senior Project Scientist John Mather has seen Webb through it all. Now, he reflects on the wonders Webb has already shown us, the people who made it possible, and what’s next: go.nasa.gov/3aKPQlh
About 10 people wearing contamination-controlled gear work together to lift the James Webb Space Telescope's mirrors above them using a cable system inside a giant, mostly white clean room. To the right is a large platform where the mirrors are meant to be placed. The primary mirror is made up of 18 hexagonal, gold-plated segments, but 3 segments on either side are folded back. A NASA Goddard Space Flight Center banner, with a blue and red NASA logo, is visible on the back wall.
The James Webb Space Telescope's Senior Project Scientist, Nobel laureate John Mather, smiles joyfully at the camera with his arms crossed. He has silver hair and is wearing black glasses with thin frames and a lavender button-up shirt. The back end of a black pen sticks out of his shirt pocket. Behind him are white chalk drawings of the Webb telescope on a black chalkboard.
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Across the universe and across the pond, space lights our imaginations. nasa.gov/webbfirstimages #UnfoldTheUniverse
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We’re proud of our continued collaboration with @NASA . And proud to be part of such an important moment, not just in space science but in mankind’s history. 🔭✨🌕 Looking at new images from the #JamesWebbTelescope we can ponder our incredible existence. #UnfoldTheUniverse
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Oh. We were born ready. We can't wait to see how
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complements our fleet of planetary spacecraft - from Mars through the faint rocky and icy objects in the far outer Solar System. webb.nasa.gov/content/scienc
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Hey @NASASolarSystem, ready for your close-up? As part of Webb’s prep for science, we tested how the telescope tracks solar system objects like Jupiter. Webb worked better than expected, and even caught Jupiter’s moon Europa: blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/07/1
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Jupiter dominates the frame, appearing to glow with bands of bright white, light yellow, and darker, brownish oranges. The stripes circle the planet, with one especially thick bright band across the planet’s center. A spot of glowing bright white interrupts the darker brown band about a third from the bottom of the planet. To the left of Jupiter, Europa appears as a tiny, black circle with a bright starburst erupting from its edges. The background of the image is pure black.
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These images are designed for engineering purposes, so they aren’t processed in the same way as our first images this week. Like some earlier calibration images, these are processed to emphasize certain features.
Jupiter seen glowing with bands of bright white, light yellow, and darker, brownish oranges. The stripes circle the planet, with one especially thick bright band across the planet’s center. To the left of Jupiter, Europa appears as a tiny, black circle with a bright starburst erupting from its edges. Jupiter zooms across the screen from right to left, before largely disappearing off the left side of the screen. The background of the image is pure black.
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NASA Webb Telescope
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Webb’s first full-color images are now the world’s to enjoy! We hope you found them as meaningful and beautiful as we did. Here’s to many years of Webb science — we can’t wait to see what’s next as we continue to #UnfoldtheUniverse!
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NASA Reveals Webb Telescope’s First Images of Unseen Universe
The dawn of a new era in astronomy has begun as the world gets its first look at the full capabilities of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a partnership with ESA (European Space Agency) and CSA...
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