President Joe Biden will release one of the James Webb Space Telescope’s first images in a preview event at the White House, NASA announced on Sunday.
The Monday reveal will showcase “Webb’s First Deep Field,” an image that features the deepest and highest-resolution view of the universe ever captured. NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Canadian Space Agency will release a separate set of full-color images from the Webb telescope on Tuesday. Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and NASA Administrator Bill Nelson are slated to attend the 5 p.m. event at the White House.
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“Even after working on the program for many years, I’m as excited as everyone else who is anticipating the release of the first beautiful full-color images and data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope,” Eric Smith, a NASA program scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope, said in a statement on Friday.
“The world is about to be new again,” Smith added.
On Friday, NASA released the list of the five cosmic targets for the telescope’s first photographs, which include the Carina Nebula, one of the largest and brightest nebulae in the sky, located approximately 7,600 light-years away from Earth; the WASP-96b exoplanet, located 1,150 light-years from Earth; the Southern Ring Nebula, an expanding cloud of gas surrounding a dying star approximately 2,000 light-years away; Stephan’s Quintet, the first compact galaxy group ever discovered in 1877, located about 290 million light-years away; and the SMACS 0723 deep-field view of extremely distant and faint galaxy populations.
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The telescope, developed by NASA and Northrop Grumman, is the largest, most complex, and most powerful space telescope ever built.
The telescope cost nearly $10 billion and took over 20 years to develop. It was launched into space in December 2021.
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