James Webb Space Telescope Releases Its First Color Photo Soon, Save The Time

KOMPAS.com – After half a year of being in outer spacenow the United States Space Agency (NASA) announced that it will soon release photos taken by the telescope Outer Space James Webb.

This telescope is the successor to Hubble, which is currently still serving in space. James Webb is called the most expensive telescope that will unravel the mysteries of the universe.

Quoted from Gizmodo, Sunday (5/6/2022) in a statement, NASA said this long-awaited color photo will be officially released on July 12 along with some spectroscopic data.

“The release of Webb’s first full-color image will offer a unique moment for all of us to admire a sight no human has ever seen before,” said Eric Smith, Webb program scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington.

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Previously, the Webb team had indeed shared some pictures. However it is a provisional alignment image taken to evaluate the observatory’s capabilities.

Meanwhile, in the images to be released on July 12, all telescope instruments have been checked, tested, and given the green light by the Webb team.

Webb itself was launched on December 25 last year and reached its observation point in space, namely L2, which is 1 million miles from Earth, one month later.

Since then, NASA scientists and their partners have worked hard to prepare the telescope for its mission.

The main purpose of the telescope is to study the birth of stars and the emergence of planetary systems, to study the evolution of galaxies and local objects such as exoplanets, and to investigate the earliest sources of light in the universe.

“And Webb’s first images and data will be something astronomers and the public have been waiting for. It also shows how this telescope instrument works,” said Klaus Pontoppidan, Webb’s project scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore.

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