Looking forward to some amazing nebula pics.
EDIT: for a guestimate
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“We are planning a series of “wow” images to be released at the end of commissioning when we start normal science operations that are designed to showcase what this telescope can do,” said Jane Rigby, Webb Operations Project Scientist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center at a press briefing in January. “They will showcase all four science instruments and they will really knock everybody’s socks off.”
The plan is to release images at one time and not as they’re taken. That could mean that the world will have to wait a while because a lot of testing needs to be done in the wake of Webb being fully deployed last weekend.
So when will we see Webb’s “wow” images? My best guess is the last week of May 2022. By then NASA will have aligned the 18 hexagonal of Webb’s 21 feet/6.5 meter mirror and collimated it using a few bright stars.
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