Strikingly clear images of the Carina Nebula, the Eight-Burst Nebula, a galaxy cluster called Stephan’s Quintet and an exoplanet named WASP-96b make up the first set of science data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has released its first full-resolution images in a preview of the science soon to come. These five images, showing two sparkling nebulas, a group of doomed galaxies and the chemical composition of a giant exoplanet, are the culmination of decades of work by scientists and engineers – and they are just the beginning.
during the image release event at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. “With Webb, we took that image before breakfast… We’re going to be doing discoveries like this every week.”This image showcases one of JWST’s other key capabilities: examining the light shining through the atmosphere of an exoplanet. It is the spectrum of light coming from a planet called WASP-96b, a gas giant about 1150 light years from Earth.
This cloud of dust and gas surrounding two stars is called the Southern Ring Nebula, or the Eight-Burst Nebula. Both of these images show the nebula in infrared, but the one on the right was taken using longer wavelengths than the one at left.
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