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Jupiter, center, and its moon Europa, left, are seen through the James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam instrument 2.12 micron filter. Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, and B. Holler and J. Stansberry (STScI)
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Exoplanet WASP-96 b (NIRISS Transmission Spectrum)
A transmission spectrum made from a single observation using Webb’s Near-Infrared Imager and Slitl |
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Exoplanet WASP-96 b (NIRISS Transit Light Curve)
A light curve from Webb’s Near-Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) shows the change |
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NIRCam narrow-band imaging of Jupiter, moons, and ring
JWST can track moving targets even when there is scattered light from a bright Jovian planet. At lef |
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Southern Ring Nebula (MIRI Image)
NASA’s Webb Telescope has revealed the cloak of dust around the second star, shown at left in red, |
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Southern Ring Nebula (NIRCam Image)
The bright star at the center of NGC 3132, while prominent when viewed by NASA’s Webb Telescope in |
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Cosmic Cliffs in the Carina Nebula (NIRCam and MIRI Composite Image)
What looks much like craggy mountains on a moonlit evening is actually the edge of a nearby, young, |
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Cosmic Cliffs in the Carina Nebula (NIRCam Image)
What looks much like craggy mountains on a moonlit evening is actually the edge of a nearby, young, |
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Stephan’s Quintet
Stephan’s Quintet, a visual grouping of five galaxies, is best known for being prominently feature |
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Stephan's Quintet (MIRI Image)
With its powerful, mid-infrared vision, the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) shows never-before-seen d |
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Southern Ring Nebula (NIRCam and MIRI Images Side by Side)
This side-by-side comparison shows observations of the Southern Ring Nebula in near-infrared light, |
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Webb’s First Deep Field (MIRI and NIRCam Images Side by Side)
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Webb's First Deep Field (NIRSpec Emission Spectrum)
This galaxy emitted its light 13.1 billion years ago. It was captured by Webb’s microshutter arra |
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First Images from the James Webb Space Telescope
On Monday, July 11, President Joe Biden released one of the James Webb Space Telescope’s first ima |
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Webb’s Fine Guidance Sensor Preview Image
This Fine Guidance Sensor test image was acquired in parallel with NIRCam imaging of the star HD1479 |
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Webb Is Fully Aligned And The Views Are Stunning!
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope can now capture sharp images of celestial objects with multiple in |
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Telescope alignment evaluation image
While the purpose of this image was to focus on the bright star at the center for alignment evaluati |
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Phase 3 completion, showing 18 segments 'stacked' as a single image of HD 84406 |
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1st images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope
The first published image taken by the James Webb Space Telescope shows part of a mosaic created ove |
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Nircam alignment selfie
This new 'selfie' was created using a specialized pupil imaging lens inside of the NIRCam instrument |
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An annotated view of the James Webb Space Telescope's first image marks which mirror segments captur |
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WEBB INSTRUMENT WORK CONTINUES
This gif shows the 'before' and 'after' images from Segment Alignment, when the team corrected large |
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Primary mirror selfie
A 'selfie' shows the 18 segments of the James Webb Space Telescope's primary mirror as seen from a s |
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MIRI’s Sharper View Hints at New Possibilities for Science
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is aligned across all four of its science instruments, as seen i |
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Webb’s NIRSpec Acquires Multiple Targets
A simulation of the NIRSpec MSA-based Target acquisition process, demonstrated on the NIRSpec Sharpn |
