Nasa Releases First Set Of Full Colour Webb Photographs
The Independent|July 13, 2022
Nasa has released the first complete set of full colour images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, revealing stunning images of distant nebulae, galaxies, and uniquely detailed spectral data from an exoplanet's atmosphere.
Jon Kelvey
Nasa Releases First Set Of Full Colour Webb Photographs

The images were introduced live on Nasa's website shortly after 10.30am EDT yesterday following the release of the very first image on Monday night, when US president Joe Biden introduced the first Webb deep-field image of some of the faintest galaxies ever imaged in infrared light. The images released yesterday include Webb's photos of the Carina and Southern Wheel nebulae, a collection of galaxies known as Stephen's Quartet and a spectrum of light from the exoplanet WASP-96b.

The first image shown yesterday is the same deep-field image first introduced by president Biden on Monday evening.

The deep field shows thousands of galaxies, some more than 13.2 billion light-years away, magnified by the gravity of a larger galaxy cluster in the foreground, causing the noticeable distortion in the image.

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