James Webb updates: NASA reveals 5 stunning, new images from telescope
They are the highest resolution images of the distant universe ever taken.
The first full-color image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been released.
The images, the full set of which will be released Tuesday morning, will be the deepest and highest resolution ever taken of the universe, according to NASA.
The telescope will help scientists study the formation of the universe’s earliest galaxies, how they compare to today’s galaxies, how our solar system developed and if there is life on other planets.
Latest updates:
Biden to release first-full color image from James Webb telescope
President Joe Biden will unveil Monday the first full-color image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.
The preview event, to be held at the White House at 5 p.m. EST, will be the highest-resolution and the deepest image ever taken of the universe, according to the space agency.
It comes ahead of a set of images NASA will release during a broadcast Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. EST.
Galaxy cluster seen in new telescope image
NASA's newest image from the Webb telescope shows Stephan's Quintet, a group of five galaxies located 290 million light-years away.
According to the space agency, the image "contains over 150 million pixels and is constructed from almost 1,000 separate image files."
The image provides new information about the cluster, including the birth of millions of stars -- as they happened millions of years ago -- and tails of gas and dust that are being pulled in different directions as the galaxies engage in a "cosmic dance."
The "most surprising" image, NASA said, is one of the galaxies, NGC 7318B, crashing through the middle of the cluster.