Share with friends and circles of friends with wechat scanning QR code < / P > < p > on July 9, local time on Friday, NASA announced the list of the first objects photographed by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), including galaxies, nebulae and extrasolar giant planets JWST is NASA's new large-scale deep space observatory, which was launched on Christmas Day 2021. Equipped with a large gold-plated mirror with a span of more than 6.4 meters, this telescope will change the field of astrophysics by collecting the light of the first stars and galaxies formed after the big bang

at the same time, JWST is also designed to study objects in the whole universe in unprecedented detail, so that we can have an in-depth understanding of the distant solar system, exoplanets, asteroids, strange stars in the deepest space, etc

in order to obtain the first image, JWST observed these target objects and space areas for 120 hours and collected data for five days. So far, we don't know what the first images of JWST will look like

however, Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA's deputy director for Scientific Affairs, revealed that we would see light from the atmosphere of an extrasolar planet. NASA Director Bill Nelson said that one of the photos would be "the deepest picture of our universe ever taken"

the following is a list of objects observed by JWST and a brief description provided by NASA: < /p > < p > Carina Nebula: Carina Nebula is one of the largest and brightest nebulae in the sky, located in the south of carina, about 7600 light-years away from the earth. The nebula is a "nursery" for star formation, where there are many stars larger and heavier than the sun. Wasp-96b: wasp-96b is a huge planet outside the solar system, mainly composed of gas. The planet is nearly 1150 light-years away from the earth and rotates around its star every 3.4 days. Its mass is about half that of Jupiter. Southern Ring Nebula: the Southern Ring Nebula is a planetary nebula, an expanding gas Nebula surrounding a dying star. Its diameter is nearly half a light-year, and it is about 2000 light-years away from the earth. Stephan's Quintet: the Stephan's quintet is located in the constellation Pegasus, about 290million light-years away from the earth. It is worth noting that it is the first dense galaxy group discovered in 1877, and four of the five galaxies are locked in the repeated close encounter of the cosmic war. Smacs0723: this huge foreground galaxy cluster amplifies and distorts the light of the objects behind them, allowing deep observation of far away and essentially darker galaxy clusters < p > NASA will release these images on the morning of July 12, Eastern time. PAM melroy, a former astronaut and now NASA deputy director, said, "whether as a scientist, an engineer or an ordinary person, I am excited by what I see." (small)