This is only the beginning.
That's an exciting prospect to scientists working on the project.
"Combined with the deep field images released the other day, these images of Jupiter demonstrate the full grasp of what Webb can observe, from the faintest, most distant observable galaxies to planets in our own cosmic backyard that you can see with the naked eye from your actual backyard," said Bryan Holler, a scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, in the statement.
It's one hell of a start for the $10 billion space observatory, which has been in active development for decades. And we can't wait to see its next Solar System targets in their full, extremely bright glory.
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