A star is born in fiery fashion and Webb bears witness to such a wondrous event. A star is born in fiery fashion and Webb bears witness to such a wondrous event.
The James Webb Space Telescope unveiled its latest image of celestial majesty on Wednesday, an ethereal hourglass of orange and blue dust being shot out from a newly forming star at its center.
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Now witness the observational power of this fully deployed and not-quite-yet operational space telescope. Emperor Palpatine, kinda
On Saturday morning, January 8, 2022, the eyes of James Webb Space Telescope became fully opened, and the massive observatory now ready to begin its long testing phase to focus its individual 18 hexagonal mirror segments into a single, monolithic vision of the Universe.