After six months of tests and checkout, the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope is finally ready for center stage.
The initial images released Monday and Tuesday, selected by an international team of astronomers, will"demonstrate to the world that Webb is, in fact, ready for science, and that it produces excellent and spectacular results," said Klaus Pontoppidan, Webb project scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute.
Stephen's Quintet: A collection of five galaxies in the constellation Pegasus 290 million light years from Earth that was discovered in 1877, the first such compact grouping of galaxies to be detected. Four of the five galaxies are gravitationally interacting in a slow-motion merger. "The first images will include observations that span the range of Webb science themes," said Pontoppidan."From the early universe, the deepest infrared view of the cosmos to date. We will also see an example of how galaxies interact and grow, and how these cataclysmic collisions between galaxies drive the process of star formation.
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