First Images from the James Webb Space Telescope

[Michie]

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 (Canadian Space Agency). The telescope’s first full-color images and spectroscopic data were released during a televised broadcast at 10:30 a.m. EDT (14:30 UTC) on Tuesday, July 12, 2022, from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. These listed targets below represent the first wave of full-color scientific images and spectra the observatory has gathered, and the official beginning of Webb’s general science operations. They were selected by an international committee of representatives from NASA, ESA, CSA, and the Space Telescope Science Institute.

These first images from the world’s largest and most powerful space telescope demonstrate Webb at its full power, ready to begin its mission to unfold the infrared universe.

Press release: NASA Reveals Webb Telescope’s First Images of Unseen Universe





For more about Webb’s current status, visit the “Where Is Webb?” tracker.

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[Michie]

More than leading us to imagine our future accomplishments, NASA’s new images inspire us to turn our hearts and minds to the Creator who envisioned all of this.

James Webb Space Telescope: Pondering the Universe and Pondering the Creator

 

[Michie]

‘Greater Than all The Milky Ways In The Universe’: God and the New NASA Images

 

[WarriorAngel]

I liked this quote:
“When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them? You have made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and honor.” — Psalm 8:3-5