The roiling clouds of the Great Red Spot appear as brightness against cooler clouds in nearby band features. The photos drive home what's easy to forget when looking at the stunning star and galaxy images released earlier this week: JWST observes the universe in infrared. On Thursday (July 14), NASA finally brought new views from the James Webb Space Telescope closer to home with a clutch of images of Jupiter, as well as some of its rings and moons. Read more: Biden unveils James Webb Space Telescope's ultradeep view of the universe Prev of 13 Next Prev of 13 Next Webb's First Deep Field was captured by the observatory's Near-Infrared Camera, or NIRCam, which was the final instrument on the telescope to be approved for full science operations. "With Webb, we took that image before breakfast," Rigby said. Everywhere we look, there's galaxies."Īnd although the Hubble Space Telescope took a similar image, that work required days and days of observations. "It's really gorgeous and it's teeming with galaxies," Jane Rigby, an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, said of the deep-field image during Tuesday's live event unveiling all the new images. The image, dubbed Webb's First Deep Field, is the deepest infrared view of the universe to date, making use of both JWST's powerful optics and the technique of gravitational lensing to see the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 as it looked 4.6 billion years ago, according to a NASA statement. NASA released the very first science-quality image from JWST on Monday (July 11) during an event at the White House hosted by President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI)
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