A tale of scientists, cheerleaders and the majesty of the universe.
Finally, it's 10:30, and NASA's live-streamed presentation, broadcast from another building on the Goddard campus, begins — this is what we've been waiting for. The first image comes, and although it's, I'm happy to marvel at it all over again. I'm caught off-guard when scientists release one additional gem: a spectrum of a tiny red speck in the background of the image that represents a galaxy 13.1 billion light-years away.
As the next image appears, I hear a faint, awestruck expletive from the journalist next to me, who has just looked up from his laptop to see the Southern Ring Nebula projected on the big screen. The complicated structure of the rings around the's turquoise center stands out in stunning detail, rendered in vivid gold and orange. We're still digesting the gorgeous photo when another appears from a second instrument.
in the process of merging together. The composite image uses both the main camera, NIRCam, and the mid-infrared MIRI to highlight the structure of the galaxies, with cosmic tails strung out from their interaction with each other. One galaxy shines with sharp silvery stars and golden clusters, obviously far closer to Earth than the others. A jewel-toned MIRI image follows, highlighting the blinding light of dust and gas heated by a supermassive black hole in the quintet's top galaxy.
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