Mathias' Blog

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13 Jul 2022

James Webb Space Telescope First Photos

Southern Ring Nebula as imaged by the JWST

Southern Ring Nebula as imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope (credit to NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI)

Yesterday we finally got the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope, and they are incredible! A cool site that popped up pretty quickly is webbcompare.com, which makes it very easy to see the incredible new levels of detail that JWST will allow us to see by comparing its photos to those previously taken by Hubble.