(Image: NASA, CSA and FGS team)
NASA will unveil the first science-quality images from the next-generation James Webb Space Telescope on Tuesday (July 12). You can watch the event live here on Space.com courtesy of the agency starting at 10:30am. EDT (1430 GMT). As much as these images are expected, they are not the first pictures from the massive space observatory. The James Webb Space Telescope, also known as JWST or Webb, launched on December 25, 2021, and since then, NASA and its project partners have been offering tantalizing glimpses of what’s to come. The image above, released by NASA on Wednesday (July 6), represents 32 hours of observing time from JWST’s Fine Guidance Sensor. This device is not one of the telescope’s four main science instruments. Instead, it keeps the observatory pointed steadily at its target. Still, the image is the deepest field ever recorded—a superlative that NASA Administrator Bill Nelson hinted one of the official first images would steal. We’ll be updating this gallery live on Tuesday to share the first official images as they’re revealed.
