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"The release of Webb’s first full-color images will offer a unique moment for us all to stop and marvel at a view humanity has never seen before," added Smith. Of course, it wasn't easy to decide which object in the big black abyssal depths the James Webb Space Telescope should look at first. But after more than five years of preparation — in a collaborative effort between NASA, the ESA, CSA, and the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore — the anticipation is visceral.
"Our goals for Webb's first images and data are both to showcase the telescope's powerful instruments and to preview the science mission to come," said Klaus Pontoppidan, an astronomer and project scientist at STScI, in the blog post."They are sure to deliver a long-awaited 'wow' for astronomers and the public.
However, the James Webb Telescope is so powerful that no one is exactly sure what we'll see in the first images. It's a good problem to have in astronomy."Of course, there are things we are expecting or hoping to see, but with a new telescope and this new high-resolution infrared data, we just won't know until we see it," said Joseph DePasquale, STScI's lead science visuals developer, in the NASA post.
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