NEW YORK: On Tuesday morning, NASA will show off the first pictures and data from the new James Webb Space Telescope. That will bring to an end some 30 years and $10 billion of planning, building, testing and innovating, followed by six months of terror, tension and anticipation.
The pictures constitute a sightseeing tour of the universe painted in colors no human eye has seen - the invisible rays of infrared or heat radiation. Infrared rays are blocked by the atmosphere and so can only be studied out in space.
