NEW: NASA has released a full batch of images and data from the James Webb Space Telescope, providing a first look at the cosmic mysteries that could be untangled in the years ahead by humanity’s most powerful space observatory.
The James Webb Space Telescope captured the Southern Ring Nebula in stunning detail, showing an expanding shell of gas around a dying star.ByJames Webb Space Telescope
Among the newly released images are breathtaking views of a distant galaxy group called Stephan's Quintet that was discovered in 1877, a stellar nursery called the Carina Nebula that plays host to many stars that are several times larger than the sun, and the Southern Ring Nebula, a huge expanding shell of gas around a dying star.
While WASP-96b is too hot and located too close to its parent star to be considered habitable, Webb's spectrum revealed the presence of water vapor in the planet's atmosphere. The Webb telescope, a collaboration among NASA, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency, launched into space Dec. 25, 2021. After spending more than six months testing and configuring the spacecraft's various instruments, NASA officials said the observatory's science operations are now ready to begin in earnest.
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