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Daily Space: It's Webb Telescope day! NASA releases the first batch of gorgeous images [1]
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Date: 2022-07-12
Side-by-side comparison of the Southern Ring Nebula in near-infrared light (left) and mid-infrared light (right).
The James Webb Space Telescope was more than a decade in construction. When it finally launched back on Christmas Day, the massive and complex structure faced what NASA called “344 points of failure” on its way to its new home at Lagrange Point 2 (L2), roughly 1,500,000 kilometers (930,000 miles) from Earth.
Day by day, week by week, the telescope didn’t just pass those points of potential failure, it passed with flying colors. Even before the telescope was fully deployed, engineers at NASA, the Canadian Space Agency, and European Space Agency were talking about how the instruments were actually exceeding what were already very high expectations.
For astronomers—and for everyone interested in the universe we live in—waiting for the first official images from Webb has been like waiting to open a present that has been out there traveling since Christmas. Today is that day. Come and see what NASAnta brought you.
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