The long-awaited full-colored, “deep field” images and data of distant galaxies captured by the James Webb Space Telescope have been released. And they are stunning.
FILE – In this April 13, 2017 photo provided by NASA, technicians lift the mirror of the James Webb Space Telescope using a crane at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. The telescope is designed to peer back so far that scientists will get a glimpse of the dawn of the universe about 13.7 billion years ago and zoom in on closer cosmic objects, even our own solar system, with sharper focus.
A James Webb Space Telescope photo provided by NASA shows the Carina Nebula, showing the earliest stages of star formation. Ñ EDITORIAL USE ONLY Ñ A James Webb Space Telescope photo provided by NASA shows the Southern Ring Nebula, a dying star, expelling a colorful gas cloud that will eventually expand and fade away into the space between stars. Ñ EDITORIAL USE ONLY Ñ
An image provided by NASA shows a detail of damage to one of the James Webb Space TelescopeÕs mirrors, which was hit by a micrometeoroid. Ñ EDITORIAL USE ONLY Ñ
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