They've been waiting a long, long time.
, the deep-field image released in a White House ceremony"illustrates the scientific promise of JWST more so than generating"awe" at the beauty of some of the other targets."
And the big mirror reveals amazing details: I'm picking out possible supernovae, star-forming regions, luminous blue variable stars, who knows what, just with my eyes! So for me, this is perhaps the first time I've really appreciated how good JWST will be for this type of science.You might notice Stephen's Quintet from the movie"It's a Wonderful Life." This image of the famous visual grouping of five galaxies is constructed from nearly 1,000 separate images.
But for me as a human being, the images were even more impactful in that they made me hopeful about the future. I feel incredibly privileged to be a scientist at this time and to be a beneficiary of our shared desire to know what's out there in the universe and to understand why we are here. 100 years ago, humanity didn't even know whether there was a Universe beyond the Milky Way galaxy; now, we are able to routinely detect and quantify objects whose light was emitted over 13 billion years ago and to measure the composition of the atmosphere around a planet 1000 light years away.
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