BALTIMORE — Lately, the hallways at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore have been filled with a few more smiles than usual.
Giddy excitement is in the air, anticipating the public release this week of the first significant, full-color images to come from the James Webb Space Telescope, said Susan Mullally, deputy project scientist for the telescope.
Staff at the institute, which operates the revolutionary telescope, have put the finishing touches on the public’s first look at the power of Webb to observe what was once unobservable — distant galaxies, the atmospheres of faraway planets.
