Here’s the first full-color image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope
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NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO Today, NASA unveiled the first full-color image taken by the agency's powerful James Webb Space Telescope, a pivotal moment for the deep-space observatory that marks the beginning of its first year of transformational science. The incredibly detailed image - a deep field of some of the most distant galaxies seen from Earth - showcases the mighty power of the telescope and serves as a teaser for even more awe-inspiring images of the Universe that are still to come.
The picture is one of a handful of inaugural full-color images that NASA plans to release this week to celebrate the start of science operations for the James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST. President Joe Biden and NASA administrator Bill Nelson unveiled the first picture this...