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NASA shows off more early release photos from James Webb Space Telescope
NASA unveiled more spectacular “first light” pictures from the James Webb Space Telescope on Tuesday the 12 of July 2022, showcasing interacting galaxies, the death throes of a slowly dying star, and a stellar nursery where massive young suns are being born and blazing light sculpts vast clouds of gas and dust.
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, senior agency managers, and a throng of enthusiastic Webb engineers and scientists looked on at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, as the new images were released, one at a time. The Webb team unveiled a mind-boggling view showing a segment of the Carina Nebula, a vast star-forming region in the southern constellation Carina some 7,600 light-years from Earth that’s four times as large as the more famous Orion Nebula.
The images were unveiled on Tuesday followed by an initial release Monday at the White House when President Biden revealed a razor-sharp “deep field” look at a cluster of remote galaxies with numerous arcs of light, the distorted views of background galaxies magnified by the cluster’s combined gravity.
