Barely operational, James Webb already gives complete satisfaction.

The first images taken by the space telescope for scientists are of unprecedented quality and resolution, reports

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NASA recently released several photos taken by the telescope, and many netizens compared them to shots taken by other telescopes before.

The result is clear: James Webb, now located 1.5 million kilometers from Earth, provides the best images ever produced.

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Here is the first image of Mirim, installed on the @NasaWebb space telescope!


With such image quality, "there will be transformational science, we will see things that we have never seen, extraordinary" testifies Pierre-Olivier Lagage @CEAIrfu pic.twitter.com/r0z6kt1DYg

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“Magnificent” first images

The machine has completed the alignment phase of its scientific instruments since April 28.

The three imagers and the spectrograph are now well aligned on the 6.5 m diameter main mirror.

The scientific images will arrive for the summer.

But the instruments have already shown that they can "capture sharp and well-targeted images", underlines NASA.

The Mirim instrument has already provided images of stars and gas from the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy close to the Milky Way.

“This first image was immediately magnificent,” tweeted Pierre-Olivier Lagage, scientific manager at the French Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission.

“We saw the image quality we were looking for.

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The construction and launch of the James Webb telescope cost 10 billion euros.

It will allow astronomers around the world to observe the "past", such as the first galaxies that formed 200 million years after the Big Bang.

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