.NASA has begun releasing the long-awaited new images from the NASAWebb telescope. Learn more here:
Webb's other primary targets for the first image release include the Carina Nebula, WASP-96b, the Southern Ring Nebula and Stephan's Quintet.
Webb's study of the giant gas planet WASP-96b will be the first full-color spectrum of an exoplanet. The spectrum will include different wavelengths of light that could reveal new information about the planet, such as whether it has an atmosphere. Discovered in 2014, WASP-96b is located 1,150 light-years from Earth. It has half the mass of Jupiter and completes an orbit around its star every 3.4 days.
The space telescope's view of Stephan's Quintet will reveal the way galaxies interact with one another. This compact galaxy group, first discovered in 1787, is located 290 million light-years away in the constellation Pegasus. Four of the five galaxies in the group"are locked in a cosmic dance of repeated close encounters," according to a NASA statement.
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