A First Big Picture Show

[krpalmer]

After noting its launch and steps in its unfolding here, I let the final checkout process of the JWST stay at the back of my mind. Eventually, though, news built up that the first images were imminent. The very first of them got on the front page of my newspaper this morning, distant galaxies gravitationally lensed around closer ones. What followed in translations from the infrared to palettes of red and blue were also intriguing, although my impression is that this space telescope can’t be used to keep up with the outer planets (even if it did take the spectrum of an extrasolar world). Aware of what I post about here, I’m conscious this might be the last time I think to post about this telescope’s images. It’s easy enough even so to contemplate calendars of its nebula and galaxy images showing up in the future.