NASA to Unveil New Webb Image on Telescope’s First Anniversary. Webb was launched in December 2021 from French Guiana, on a million mile (1.6 million kilometre) voyage to a region called the second Lagrange point.
NASA is set Wednesday to unveil a new image from the James Webb Space Telescope a year after it first stunned the world with breathtaking views of the distant cosmos.
Webb, the most powerful observatory in orbit, was launched in December 2021 from French Guiana, on a million mile (1.6 million kilometre) voyage to a region called the second Lagrange point.
The first anniversary image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope displays star birth. The subject is the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex, the closest star-forming region to Earth. Jets bursting from young stars crisscross the image, impacting the surrounding interstellar gas and lighting up molecular hydrogen, shown in red. Some stars display the telltale shadow of a circumstellar disk, the makings of future planetary systems
Webb boasts a primary mirror measuring more than 21 feet (6.5 meters) that is made up of 18 hexagonal, gold-coated segments, as well as a five-layer sunshield the size of a tennis court. Webb will soon be joined in its orbit by Europe’s Euclid space telescope. NASA has remained coy about the nature of Wednesday’s release. Webb has enough fuel for a 20-year-long mission
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