President Joe Biden will unveil the much-anticipated first full-color picture from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope on Monday, company officers confirmed.
The picture, often known as “Webb’s First Deep Field,” will be the deepest and highest-resolution view of the universe ever captured, exhibiting myriad galaxies as they appeared up to 13 billion years previously, in accordance to NASA.
The company and its companions, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency, are set to launch a separate batch of full-color pictures from the Webb telescope on Tuesday, however Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and the general public will get a sneak peek a day early.
NASA will transient the president and the vp on Monday, company officers mentioned, and the primary picture will be revealed at an occasion at 5 p.m. ET on the White House.
The $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope is humanity’s largest and strongest area telescope, and consultants have mentioned it might revolutionize our understanding of the cosmos.
After the White House occasion, NASA will unveil extra pictures in an occasion streamed live Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. ET. NASA officers mentioned that batch will embody the Webb telescope’s first spectrum of an exoplanet, exhibiting gentle emitted at totally different wavelengths from a planet in one other star system. The pictures might supply new insights into the atmospheres and chemical makeups of different exoplanets within the cosmos.
Some pictures included within the Tuesday launch will present how galaxies work together and develop, and others will depict the life cycle of stars, from the emergence of latest ones to violent stellar deaths.
The Webb telescope launched into area on Dec. 25. The tennis-court-size observatory is in a position to peer deeper into the cosmos and in larger element than any telescope that has come earlier than it.