Great Observatories program

In a news conference Monday evening, NASA officials, President Biden, and Vice President Kamala Harris revealed the first full-color image from the Webb Space Telescope: a breathtaking shot of deep space stretching back over 13 billion years, the first in a set of images to be released this week of the telescope’s first cosmic targets.The image depicts SMACS 0723, a galactic cluster that magnifies deeper space behind it from Earth’s perspective, making it possible to see some of the earliest light of the…

In an unexpected twist, President Joe Biden will reveal the first full-color image from the Webb Space Telescope at the White House today at 5 p.m. ET. The much-anticipated release of the rest of the images remains scheduled for 10:30 a.m. ET tomorrow, and a live stream of Biden’s comments later today can be found here.If you’re just joining the saga of the Webb telescope, the spacecraft has already taken a number of images since it arrived at its destination point a million miles away inspace, a gravitationally…

A sampling of the gameplay.Gif: NASA/GizmodoNASA is drumming up excitement for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope with a super-retro 8-bit inspired video game, and it’s honestly really fun. In the game, players are Roman Space Telescope operators that have to collect different celestial objects ranging from exoplanets to dark matter.What is the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope?Once launched, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will become a powerful tool in NASA’s arsenal for unravelling the secrets of the…