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First Webb Telescope Images Coming in July

First Webb Telescope Images Coming in July

NASA announced Wednesday that the first photographs from the James Webb Space Telescope are expected to be released on July 12. Testing of the observatory has been underway since it arrived at one of the Sun-Earth system’s LaGrange points on January 24. “Our goals for Webb’s first images and data are both to showcase the telescope’s powerful instruments and to preview the science mission to come,” Klaus Pontoppidan, an astronomer and Webb project scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute…

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