Times Square in New York aired the images released by the US space agency on its screens. Times Square’s official Twitter handle shared the videos in which the James Webb telescope images were flashed on the screens.
“NASA just released the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope, and they are live on our Times Square sign! Truly amazing photos that will help us all better understand our universe, and the full potential of this new space age,” financial services giant Morgan Stanley tweeted.
NASA felicitated the pictures as a milestone to mark a new era of astronomical exploration, Reuters reported. The $9 billion infrared telescopes was launched on December 25 last year. It reached its destination in solar orbit nearly 1 million miles from Earth a month later.
With Webb finely tuned after months spent remotely aligning its mirrors and calibrating its instruments, scientists will embark on a competitively selected agenda exploring the evolution of galaxies, the life cycle of stars, the atmospheres of distant exoplanets, and the moons of our outer solar system.
