JWST’s First Full-Color Images Media Briefing

NASA Public Affairs Officer Alise Fisher, left, moderates a briefing with NASA James Webb Space Telescope Program Scientist and Astrophysics Division Chief Scientist Eric Smith, NASA James Webb Space Telescope Deputy Project Scientist for Exoplanet Science Knicole Colón, NASA James Webb Space Telescope Project Scientist at ESA (European Space Agency) Christopher Evans, NASA James Webb Space Telescope project scietntist, Space Telescope Science Institute, Klaus Pontoppidan, Principal Investigator for the Canadian Near-Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph at the University of Montreal René Doyon, NASA James Webb Space Telescope Deputy Project Scientist for Communications Amber Straughn, and NASA James Webb Space Telescope Operations Project Scientist Jane Rigby following the release of the first full-color images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, Tuesday, July 12, 2022, at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. The first full-color images and spectroscopic data from the James Webb Space Telescope, a partnership with ESA (European Space Agency) and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), are a demonstration of the power of Webb as the telescope begins its science mission to unfold the infrared universe. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)