🔭webb telescope's first five images, in order

the five NASA dropped July 11-12, 2022, roughly in reveal order. free to look at, forever

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SMACS 0723

shown a day early by Biden at the White House, deepest infrared image of the universe at the time, and it was the warmup

WASP-96 b transmission spectrum

not a pretty picture, it's a graph, but it's the one that found water on an exoplanet. worth the math

Southern Ring Nebula

Stephan's Quintet

five galaxies, four of them actually interacting, biggest image Webb had released at the time

Carina Nebula (the Cosmic Cliffs)

a star-forming region that just looks like a mountain range made of gas, no filter needed

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