Back in February, I talked with Danny Hoyland about the James Webb Space Telescope having parked in its final position.
The telescope’s first full-colour images and spectroscopic data were released on 12 July and they are simply spectacular. They are so detailed and colourful they somehow don’t seem real.
There has been much analysis and explanation of the image and this among the best I’ve seen.
Galaxy cluster SMACS 0723
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI
The edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region called NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI
A side-by-side comparison that shows observations of the Southern Ring Nebula in near-infrared light, left, and mid-infrared light, right.
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI
Stephan’s Quintet, a visual grouping of five galaxies
Ogawa Kazumasa
