James Webb Space Telescope Images

The James Webb Space Telescope was launched on December 25, 2021 and released it's first image on July 11, 2022.


Image credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI"

"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, this image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 is overflowing with detail. Thousands of galaxies - including the faintest objects ever observed in the infrared - have appeared in Webb's view for the first time. This slice of the vast universe is approximately the size of a grain of sand held at arm's length by someone on the ground."

Image of a region called Cosmic Cliffs, the edge of a cavernous area of the strar-forming region NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula.

Image of Stefan's Quintet

Image of the Southern Ring Nebula

Image of a exoplanet spectrum was collected.

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