The James Webb Space Telescope just sent NASA a photo of a far-away neighboring galaxy. Scientific observations begin in July, says AP.
is almost ready for scientific observations to begin. NASA's largest most powerful telescope ever built just captured a gigantic image of a neighboring galaxy and beamed it back to Earth as it settles into its new, deep space home.that the $10 billion telescope should begin gathering scientific images in July.
"It’s not until you actually see the kind of image that it delivers that you really internalize and go 'wow!'" University of Arizona chief scientist for Webb’s near-infrared camera Marcia Rieke told the wire service. "Just think of what we’re going to learn." Andras Gaspar, an astronomer, shared an image on Twitter that compares the latest Webb image to the last two telescopes that photographed the same location, WISE and Spitzer. The image on the far right is the Webb, and though it's not final, it's already much clearer than its predecessors.
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