Next July 12, the "Webb" telescope will provide unprecedented images of the horizons of the universe

Next Tuesday, July 12, at 5:40 pm Mecca time, the NASA space agencies, the European Space Agency, and the Canadian Space Agency will begin a live broadcast on their websites, and on communication sites, the first color images of high definition and accuracy that were taken by the James Webb Space Telescope after 6 months from its launch for all people on Earth to see, and a countdown clock has been added to broadcast images on the telescope's page on the NASA website.

biggest telescope

The James Webb Telescope, which is 1.5 million kilometers from Earth, is the largest, most complex, and costly telescope launched by humans in space, with a manufacturing bill of 10 billion dollars, the fruit of joint cooperation between NASA, European and Canadian agencies.

This live broadcast comes 6 months after the launch of the telescope last December, crowning the efforts of thousands of engineers, hundreds of scientists, 300 universities, institutions and companies from 29 US states and 14 countries around the world. The James Webb Observatory is expected to lead the world into a new era of exploration. satellite.

Official operation of the telescope will begin on July 12 (NASA)

The three agencies plan to broadcast the images one by one, with the goal of starting the actual operations of the largest and most powerful telescope ever made by man.

The images will not be available to anyone before the live broadcast, and for the world to enjoy alone and before watching the high-resolution images of the stars and galaxies of the universe.

The live broadcast of the images will be broadcast on NASA TV and the live broadcast page on the NASA website and application for both Android and Apple devices, in addition to NASA pages on the social networking sites: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Twitch and Dailymotion.

The day after the first images are broadcast, that is, Wednesday, July 13, NASA experts will answer audience questions about the first images in a live broadcast of NASA Science Live as well as on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter.

Eric Smith, a scientist in the James Webb Telescope Program at NASA Headquarters, says, “The broadcast of these experimental images in full color indicates the end of the telescope’s preparatory phase and the beginning of its readiness to carry out scientific missions. These images will provide a unique moment for humanity to see the horizons of the universe as it has never been seen before. It will also culminate in long decades of perseverance, innovation and dreams, which is not the end, but the beginning of a wonderful journey of exploration of the universe.

The first images showcase the telescope's highly advanced instruments and provide indications of expected scientific achievements (NASA)

First picture details

NASA did not reveal the subject or details of the first color images that will be broadcast, but said that the selection of these images was a project that a team of researchers had been working on for more than 5 years.

According to another astronomer at the James Webb Telescope Project, Klaus Pontopedan, NASA's goals from the first images are to review the telescope's highly advanced instruments, and provide indicators or models for the scientific achievements expected of it.

He said that there is no doubt that NASA will present dazzling images that will capture the minds and hearts of astronomers themselves before the general public.

Although there are expected images that everyone hopes to see, says Joseph de Pascal, the developer of scientific optical materials at the Space Telescope Science Institute responsible for operating the “Hubble” and “James Webb” telescopes, in light of the unique moment of launching a new telescope equipped with a superior ability to monitor flashes Infrared galaxies with ultra-high resolution, NASA will surely present unexpected surprises.

It is worth noting that NASA had published last March some images taken by the James Webb Telescope of some targets in the universe to show the superior capabilities of the cameras of the advanced telescope compared to the images of the same targets from the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes.

One of the star clusters to highlight the advanced capabilities of the Webb Telescope (right) compared to the Spitzer Telescope (NASA)

After the publication of the first images on July 12, the James Webb Telescope will enter the official operation phase, and will move to conducting astronomical observations within its primary goal, which is to look at the oldest possible point in the history of the universe.