Published 13:37 IST, July 13th 2022

Times Square in New York displays incredible images captured by NASA's Webb telescope

The first full-color images from the most powerful space telescope in the world were on display at Times Square Screens in New York City on July 12.

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first full-colour images from most powerful space telescope in world were on display at Times Square Screens in New York City on July 12, providing widest perspective of cosmos. NASA revealed that images captured on world's most powerful space telescope, James Webb Space Telescope, were taken from its most powerful observatory ever placed in orbit.

official page of Times Square NYC on twitter shared video of pictures displayed at plaza, with a caption, "Absolutely breathtaking views of @NASAWebb telescope’s first full-color images to world #UnfoldUniverse @OneTimesSq @NASA."

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In a subsequent tweet, it ded, "Check out deepest and highest-resolution infrared views of our universe on display at @Nasdaq @NASA #UnfoldUniverse @NASAWebb"

Galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 was depicted in first image that was previously released. A composite image called Webb's First Deep Field was created using several images captured at various wavelengths. Images captured by Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) were used to create it. n, images of Carina Nebula, WASP-96 b (spectrum data), Sourn Ring Nebula, and Stephen's Quintet were released by NASA.

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new image shows cosmic cliffs

Carina Nebula, 7,600 light-years away, is a stellar nursery where stars are born. According to CNN, it is one of biggest and brightest nebulae in sky and is home to numerous stars that are many times as massive as sun. stunning new image, which provides "a rare peek into stars in ir earliest, rapid stages of formation," according to NASA, shows "Cosmic Cliffs," which were previously hidden baby stars.

This compact galaxy group is 290 million light-years away in constellation Pegasus and was first identified in 1787. According to a NASA statement, four of group's five galaxies "are locked in a cosmic dance of repeated close encounters." "Eight-Burst," also known as Sourn Ring Nebula, is located 2,000 light-years from Earth. re is an expanding gas cloud surrounding a dying star in this large planetary nebula.

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A joint project of US, European, and Canian space agencies is new observatory. It has been specifically tuned to be able to see sky in infrared, which is light with longer wavelengths than what our eyes can detect.

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13:37 IST, July 13th 2022