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finally the first official images are
released
and they are
spectacular
you know i guess my reaction was just a
total sense of wonderment
it's like you have new glasses right
that you see through the fog
the southern ring nebula
where jwst reveals a pair of stars
orbiting each other
cocooned by layers of gas and dust
thrown off by one of the stars
as it slowly dies
i almost have no words you know in that
sense because it's
it's the feat of engineering right but
it's also
wow our universe is beautiful
so my favorite image is the karina
nebula
while hubble gave us a dramatic look at
this stellar landscape
jwst is already revealing so much more
star formation in general is something
that's been such an enigma for us
now we can see these baby stars and
planets being formed that we've never
had access to before
stefan's quintet
the telescope's array of instruments
shows how four of these five galaxies
swirl and pull at each other
their cosmic dance
triggering the birth of new stars
james webb is seeing the distant parts
of the universe in a wavelength that has
never been seen before in this clarity
and webb's first official deep field
a patch of sky absolutely packed
with galaxies
some whose light is stretched and
magnified
by gravity
there's actually a galaxy that's sort of
uh twisted and bent and it looks a lot
like a dolly painting
there's this clock that's like melting
and you know in the case of the clock
it's time that's being worked but here
it's actually space that's being warped
it's like life is imitating art and you
know just this feeling of of surrealness
that
this is the actual universe that we're
looking at
it sounds like living in a science
fiction movie but we are not living in
that anymore
this is science this is real
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all of these galaxies
some about 13 billion years old appear
in a spot of the sky
the size of a grain of sand
held at arm's length it really makes you
step back and think oh my goodness you
know that's just
a speck of of cosmic existence and
look at what we can see we can see
thousands of galaxies in a speck of sand
how infinite the universe must be
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these first images
offer a tiny glimpse
of what will come
think of it as like blowing open the
door to a treasure chest we're just
looking in peering from the door
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the great thing is that really this is
just the beginning today is just the
beginning we'll be able to go much much
deeper and this telescope is going to do
what we designed it to do