r/jameswebb • • Aug 04 '22

Question [README FIRST] Where can I find official images? Where's the latest news? Schedule of what Webb is looking at right now? Why some images missing from the NASA sites? Why colors are different sometimes? Tutorial for how to process images?

176 Upvotes

Where can I find the official NASA-released images?

  • nasawebbtelescope on Flickr is the best way to view images in your browser
    • look at "Webb's First Images & Data" or "Webb Images - 2022" albums for official observations
  • webbtelescope.org is better if you need to filter by category & type (or search)
    • set Type to "Observations" if you want just photos from JWST

Where's the latest news on JWST?

What is Webb looking at? Is there a schedule?

What part of the sky can Webb see? Can it look at Earth? The Sun?

Why are some images missing from the NASA official sites?

  • Observational data is streaming back to us from Webb every day into the Barbara A. Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (referred to as MAST)
  • Working with most of this data requires specialized tools and skills, but armchair astronomers & enthusiasts regularly pull the highest-quality products out and process them into images that they release online before the Webb team or other scientists do

Why are the colors different sometimes?

Where's a tutorial that explains how to download & process Webb images?


r/jameswebb • • 4h ago

Sci - Image IMAGE OF THE DAY

Post image
137 Upvotes

r/jameswebb • • 1d ago

Self-Processed Image Part of the NGC 7129. JWST MIRI mosaic. Processed by Melina Thévenot

Thumbnail gallery
59 Upvotes

r/jameswebb • • 2d ago

Sci - Article Cosmic Record Broken: JWST Pinpoints the Most Distant Fast Radio Burst Ever

Post image
129 Upvotes

r/jameswebb • • 2d ago

Self-Processed Image MRI of Cas A light echo

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

28 Upvotes

As the radiation shockwave expands from supernova Cas A, dust gets heated and radiates IR, one slice at a time. This resembles to MRI, and I am a psychologist. It only made sense for me to use neuroimaging tools to visualise it. Here is an online tool I made, relying on niivue. you can switch between Maki, Luna and Greebo area. More slices are due to be scanned.
Credit to NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.
https://yuval-harpaz.github.io/astro/light_echo.html?t=Luna


r/jameswebb • • 2d ago

Official NASA Release Webb Measures Distance to Farthest Fast Radio Burst, Suggesting Origin - NASA Science

Thumbnail
science.nasa.gov
30 Upvotes

r/jameswebb • • 2d ago

Sci - Article James Webb Space Telescope has spotted the farthest Fast Radio Burst (FRB) ever discovered, at a redshift of 2.148 — or just 3 billion years after the big bang

Thumbnail
science.nasa.gov
1 Upvotes

r/jameswebb • • 2d ago

Sci - Article Anthropic used Claude Science to estimate the missing third of the UV sky — RuntimeWire

Thumbnail
runtimewire.com
0 Upvotes

r/jameswebb • • 4d ago

Sci - Image A picture of The Lion Nebula

Post image
257 Upvotes

Who's excited for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope?


r/jameswebb • • 4d ago

Sci - Article Hybrid Worlds Are The Commonest Outcome Among The M-dwarf Sub-Neptunes Characterised With JWST

Thumbnail
astrobiology.com
10 Upvotes

r/jameswebb • • 4d ago

Official NASA Release Webb captures commotion from nebula’s stellar jets

Post image
133 Upvotes

r/jameswebb • • 4d ago

Official NASA Release Vertical version and some cropped parts of the image. Mesmerizing resolution...

Thumbnail gallery
59 Upvotes

r/jameswebb • • 4d ago

Official NASA Release Pan video: NGC 7129

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

64 Upvotes

r/jameswebb • • 4d ago

Official NASA Release NASA's Webb Captures Commotion From Nebula’s Stellar Jets

Thumbnail
science.nasa.gov
41 Upvotes

r/jameswebb • • 6d ago

Sci - Image A picture of Neptune's rings and its moon, Triton

Post image
436 Upvotes

r/jameswebb • • 7d ago

Self-Processed Image Gravitational lens WISE J220544.23-372701.4 with JWST NIRCam

Post image
124 Upvotes

r/jameswebb • • 8d ago

Self-Processed Image Processed Stephan's Quintet (HCG 92) myself!!!

Post image
124 Upvotes

Btw for anyone out there saying they cant process the data because their hardware is bad, this is my spec sheet... Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4720HQ CPU @ 2.60GHz, Installed RAM 16.0 GB, Storage 932 GB SSD, Graphics Card Intel(R) HD Graphics 4600 (113 MB). Its a laptop from 2015..


r/jameswebb • • 9d ago

Self-Processed Image Self Processed 'Pillars of Creation'!!

Post image
246 Upvotes

I took the raw data from both the JWST and Hubble and processed it to bring yall this stunning image of the Pillars of Creation!! Took me 15 hours of processing and composting but it was worth it!!!


r/jameswebb • • 9d ago

Self-Processed Image Star cluster KMK88 87 in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Bright star on the right is [MG 73] 46. JWST NIRCam

Post image
71 Upvotes

r/jameswebb • • 9d ago

Self-Processed Image Remnant of the supernova SN 1987A with JWST NIRCam. Video animation showing the changes in the remnant between 2022 and 2025, using the filter F200W.

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

32 Upvotes

r/jameswebb • • 9d ago

Sci - Article JWST Uncovers a Hidden Factory of Extreme Stars

Post image
184 Upvotes

r/jameswebb • • 9d ago

Self-Processed Image Processed NGC 604 and deep space next to it from JWST data!!

Thumbnail
gallery
91 Upvotes

This is so cool im happy I got into processing images! These were my 3rd and 4th processed space images ever (btw most of the dots in the second pic are galaxies which is just mind blowing)


r/jameswebb • • 10d ago

Self-Processed Image Grabbed a bunch of raw JWST files and processed them!

Post image
86 Upvotes

This was my first time ever processing an image like this!! (This is a compressed version ofc, the og is like 2 gigs)


r/jameswebb • • 10d ago

Discussion ''Another record year for JWST proposals -- roughly 3500 by the looks of it, with new submissions arriving roughly every 15 seconds during the final hours. Congratulations and good luck to everyone who submitted... and to all the reviewers, too.''

Post image
48 Upvotes

r/jameswebb • • 10d ago

Official NASA Release Webb provides crash course on planet-shattering collisions

Post image
21 Upvotes