Yes. The first images from the James Webb Space Telescope
are designed to demonstrate the full range of the capabilities of the telescope.
So we have everything from the deepest infrared image of the universe so far,
a stellar nursery, a star dying, and the spectrum of an atmosphere
of an exoplanet or a planet orbiting another star.
So the deep field images looking into the farthest,
deepest image, infrared image we have of the universe so far.
What you see in the foreground are some star at some nearby stars.
So the things that are really pointy are nearby stars.
The colors further back are galaxies that are far away,
and some of them are even bent and stretched because of that.
The amount of time and the gravitational fields.
Yeah.
So the Southern
Ring Nebula, it's a it's a dying star and it's a cloud of gas that surrounds it.
So stars have an evolution and a lifetime.
So they're, you know, they're they're formed.
Like, what we see in the Carina
Nebula is an area stellar nursery, an area of star formation.
And as they work through their lifecycle, then they start to run out of fuel.
They die and they have a cloud of gas that surrounds them.
And that's what we're seeing in the southern ring.
This is a set of galaxies that are sort of locked in a cosmic dance.
And so they're moving.
And there two of them are merging and we can see all of them
moving around in that and their interactions.
The Carina
Nebula is a stellar nursery, so this is a place where stars form.
And we've seen images of this from Hubble.
And if you look at the Hubble versus the James Webb Space Telescope,
you can see how much more detail and high resolution we got with the new telescope.
In addition to seeing new things that we couldn't see before.
So this we can see the end of the composition
of the atmosphere, an exoplanet.
So what it's made of and the specific planet we're looking at is hot.
And so what we see in that is that there's water there
and it wouldn't be in liquid form because of the planet type.
So it'd be more like steam that's around it.
But we can tell what's in that atmosphere.
Sure.
So infrared is a longer wavelength, invisible light.
So we can't see infrared.
But James Webb can.
And what's important about an infrared telescope is it allows us to see through
clouds of gas and dust and see the planets and stars and galaxies that are beyond.
In addition, James Webb has a larger mirror than Hubble,
so it can see back further in time, and it's orbiting
at a different point.
Well, it's going to allow us to understand
every phase of cosmic history for the last 13 and a half billion years.
So we would answer questions like, how are galaxies formed
and where do we fit into the cosmos?
We'll be able to see the formation of stars and planets.
We'll also be able to understand atmospheres of exoplanets.
I'm excited about all of it.
When I look at those images, I see, you know, they are so beautiful and inspiring.
And I have a lot of questions
and I'm also I'm an earth scientist,
so I'm really interested in atmospheres of other planets, but I'm also interested
in what we can learn from some of those other images.
So we have everything on our website.
NASA's website so jwst.nasa.gov.