The wait is finally over.
The wait is officially over. NASA has released the long-awaited first set of images taken by its uber-expensive James Webb Space Telescope — and they're absolutely breathtaking.today, the agency showed off the mind-blowing observations, including some of the deepest views of the cosmos we've ever seen, a groundbreaking moment in the field of astronomy that has been decades in the making.
The most distant galaxies show what they looked like more than 13.1 billion years ago, less than a billion years after the Big Bang.This giant planet is composed mainly of gas, and is about half the mass of Jupiter. It's located about 1,150 light-years away from Earth, orbiting its star every 3.4 days.
"We can tell there's evidence of clouds and hazes, but the water features aren't as large as we predicted," Colón explained.. "But there's hope we might observe atmospheres of more Earth-like planets in the future.""Well this one's a banger," The Atlantic's Marina KorenThis planetary nebula is an expanding cloud of gas, shrouding the dying remains of a star.
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