Highlights: First image from James Web Space telescope

NASA released the first full color images and spectrographic data from the world most powerful telescope, the James Webb telescope, a partnership with ESA (European Space Agency), and CSA (Canadian Space Agency). The world got its first look at the full capabilities of the mission at a live event streamed from the agency's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, on July 12, 2022.

The event showcased these targets:

- Carina Nebula: A landscape speckled with glittering

stars and cosmic cliffs

- Stephan's Quintet: An enormous mosaic with a visual

grouping of five galaxies

- Southern Ring Nebula: A nebula with rings of gas and

dust for thousands of years in all directions - WASP 96-b: A distinct signature of water in the atmosphere of an exoplanet orbiting a distant Sun-like star

- SMACS 0723: The deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date

The full set of the telescope's first full-color images and spectroscopic data are available at: