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HAVING just released the deepest image of the universe to date, Nasa today shared four additional mind-blowing snaps taken by the most powerful telescope ever built.
The full set of the James Webb Space Telescope’s first colour images was published during a televised broadcast from the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
The snaps give space fans a look at small sections of the universe teeming with galaxies, stars and more.
They include incredibly detailed shots of an exploding star and a quintet of galaxies viewed in new light.
Nasa also revealed that the orbiting contraption has detected signs of water on a planet more than a thousand light-years away.
The “signature of water” was spotted on the giant gas planet WASP 96-b, which orbits a star in a distant galaxy.
JWST will peer deeper into the universe than any telescope before it to unravel the secrets of time and space.
The release of the latest batch of images was introduced by scientists who worked on the project as well as politicians from Maryland, where the Goddard Space Flight Center is located.
Representative Steny Hoyer, the Democratic majority leader said of Webb: “This gives new meaning to as far as the eye can see.”
Gregory Robinson, director of the James Webb Space Telescope program, added: “You ain’t seen nothing yet.”
As well as featuring on Nasa’s dedicated TV channel, the broadcast was live-streamed worldwide on Nasa’s website.
Released one by one, these first images demonstrated JWST at its full power, ready to begin its mission.
JWST launched on Christmas Day in 2021 and was built with help from the European and Canadian space agencies.
It has spent the last seven months parked 1,000,000 miles from Earth, unfolding its sunshield, calibrating the tech onboard, and adjusting to the challenging temperatures of space…
