See the extraordinary first images from NASA's Webb Space Telescope, the most detailed pictures ever taken of deep space:
at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. A committee with members from NASA, the European Space Agency, the Canadian Space Agency, and the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore worked together to decide what Webb would observe first.
The James Webb Space Telescope’s image of the Stephan’s Quintet of galaxies. Courtesy of NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI. “When I’m working on the astronomical data, it is this sort of marriage between art and science,” science visuals developer Alyssa Pagan added. “When you’re choosing colors for the filters, you really are trying to show the different details and the processes that are happening in the astronomical images, but at the end of the day you want it to be very compelling, you want it to be very beautiful, because space is beautiful.
The Southern Ring Nebula, or the “Eight-Burst,” is an excellent example of the other end of a star’s lifespan. Some 2,000 light-years away from Earth, it shows the death throes of a dying star that has expelled a large part of its mass in waves, creating an expanding cloud of gas. There are actually two stars locked in orbit at the center of that nebula, the dimmer of which is cloaked in dust, a fact revealed for the first time by Webb.
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