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Georgina Torbet

How the Webb Telescope team built those startling images


The world was stunned Monday and Tuesday by the release of the first science images from the James Webb Space Telescope, showing targets from nebulae to deep fields in glorious detail. But a telescope isn’t like a smartphone camera where you can point at an object and press a button to capture it. The process of taking data off Webb’s four imaging instruments and adapting it into a color image is part science, part art form.

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