First Images from the James Webb Space Telescope | Space Discoveries |

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Nasa revealed the first five full-color images and spectrographic data from the world's most powerful space telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, a partnership with ESA (European Space Agency), and CSA (Canadian Space Agency). The world got its first look at the full capabilities of the mission at a live event streamed from the agency,s Goddard's Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, on July 12, 2022.
The event showcased these target:
- Carina Nebula: A landscape speckled with glittering stars and and cosmic cliffs
- Stephen Quintet: An enormous mosaic with a visual grouping of five galaxies
- Southern Ring Nebula: A nebula with rings of gas and dust from thousands of years in all directions
- WASP 96-b: A district signature of water in the atmosphere of an exoplanet orbiting a distant Sun-like stars
- SMACS 0723: The deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date

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