The spacecraft has been orbiting the second Lagrange point, or L2, about a million miles from Earth since Jan.
Getting to space on Christmas Day last year was just the first step for the James Webb Space Telescope. Why has it taken so long to share Webb’s first images? Such a spectrum is the sort of detail that could reveal what is in that world’s atmosphere.
The team will also release a detailed spectrum of an exoplanet known as WASP-96b, a gas giant half the mass of Jupiter that circles a star 1,150 light-years from here every 3.4 days. There is the Southern Ring Nebula, a shell of gas ejected from a dying star about 2,000 light-years from here, and the Carina Nebula, a huge swirling expanse of gas and stars including some of the most massive and potentially explosive star systems in the Milky Way. A small team of astronomers and science outreach experts selected the images to show off the capability of the new telescope and to knock the socks off the public. The pictures constitute a sightseeing tour of the universe painted in colors no human eye has seen - the invisible rays of infrared, or heat radiation. They will be shown off at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
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Eastern time on Tuesday in a live video stream you can watch on NASA TV or YouTube. NASA will show other pictures at 10:30 a.m. Marcia Rieke of the University of Arizona, who led the building of NIRCam, one of the cameras on the Webb telescope that took the picture, said, “This image will not hold the ‘deepest’ record for long but clearly shows the power of this telescope.” What about the rest of the images? Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA’s associate administrator for space science, described this image as the deepest view yet into the past of our cosmos. The screen gave way to the cosmic image, which was speckled with tiny dots of galaxies and drew applause from the far end of the room. Each sat at small, widely spaced desks in front of a large screen where other NASA officials appeared. Biden and Jane Rigby, an operations project scientist for the Webb telescope. Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were joined by Alondra Nelson, the acting director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Bill Nelson, the former Florida senator appointed NASA administrator by Mr. In a setting in the White House’s South Auditorium that evoked scenes from the bridge of a starship on “Star Trek” Mr. Biden, the reveal of the images was also a chance to engage directly with an event that will almost certainly stir wonder and pride among Americans - at a time when his approval ratings have plummeted as voters recoil at high food and gasoline prices and Democrats question his ability to fight for gun control and abortion rights. You can sign up here for a reminder on your personal digital calendar to catch the first glimpse of them.įor Mr. Biden’s announcement served as a teaser for the telescope’s big cosmic slide show coming on Tuesday morning, when scientists reveal what the Webb has been looking at for the past six months.
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