NASA draws back curtain on Webb space telescope’s first full-colour images
NASA has revealed stunning images showing billions of years of cosmic evolution with the inaugural batch of photos from the largest, most powerful observatory ever launched to space, saying the luminous imagery showed the telescope exceeds expectations.
The first full-colour, high-resolution pictures from the James Webb Space Telescope, designed to peer further than before with greater clarity to the dawn of the universe, were hailed by NASA as a milestone marking a new era of astronomical exploration.
Nearly two decades in the making and built under contract by aerospace giant Northrop Grumman, the $US9 billion ($NZ14.6b) infrared telescope was launched on 25 December, 2021. It reached its destination in solar orbit nearly 1.6 million kilometres from Earth a month later.
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