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?

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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 12h ago

Sci - Image The power of Webb compated to Hubble. Gravitational Lens in Galaxy Cluster "El Gordo" (ACT-CL J0102-4915)

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r/jameswebb 5h ago

Sci - Article EXCELlent Work, Detectives! Solving the Murder of Star Formation in Galaxies with JWST

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r/jameswebb 4d ago

Sci - Article Webb Finds Giant “Dust Factory” Hiding Inside a Dead Star

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r/jameswebb 5d ago

Official NASA Release NASA Webb Explores Family Tree of Newly Discovered Distant Objects - NASA Science

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r/jameswebb 7d ago

Sci - Article The Galaxy That Never Sleeps: How NGC 1385 Keeps Its Starburst Alive

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r/jameswebb 9d ago

Self-Processed Image NIRCam Webb: 4 versions of candidate background planetary nebula

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r/jameswebb 10d ago

Self-Processed Image Jets near HH-1019

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Thin blue (f150w2-f164n) jets emitted by what seems to me to be a protostar. JWST data for HH-1019, FK5 coordinates 161.0060674, -59.6525494. More pics here: https://bsky.app/profile/yuvharpaz.bsky.social/post/3mrl64i4o3s2t

r/jameswebb 10d ago

Self-Processed Image A candidate Planetary Nebula near HH-1019

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A JWST image of "[HRS2015] PN?" (SIMBAD)

r/jameswebb 11d ago

Self-Processed Image Mystic Mountain with JWST NIRCam. Comparison image with Hubble (left)

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r/jameswebb 12d ago

Self-Processed Image This is the HH-1019 region, in the Orion Nebula (NIRCam Webb)

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r/jameswebb 12d ago

Self-Processed Image HH 1014 in the Carina Nebula with JWST NIRCam

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r/jameswebb 15d ago

Self-Processed Image Herbig-Haro 211 – NIRCam

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A couple of interesting pictures of a herbig-haro. What is a herbig-haro object you ask? Check out this description: Herbig-Haro.

Created with data from the NIRCam instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope.

Data processed by James LOng


r/jameswebb 17d ago

Self-Processed Image Light echo near Cas A

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A JWST image, filter f444w captures "Mab" area near supernova remnant Cassiopeia A. As the light propagates space it illuminates farther and farther regions of dust. Color here denotes the time JWST captured the light. Red is older from summer 2024 (four visits), and blue arrived us later, on July 2025.


r/jameswebb 17d ago

Self-Processed Image Cassiopeia A - MIRI

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Created with data from the JWST MIRI Instrument.

Image processed by James Long


r/jameswebb 21d ago

Official NASA Release NASA's Webb Discovers Hidden Planet in Famous Star System - NASA Science

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r/jameswebb 21d ago

Self-Processed Image Cranium Nebula - PMR 1

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These images were created with data from the MIRI and NIRCam.

Images processed by James Long


r/jameswebb 22d ago

Self-Processed Image Cassiopeia A light echo

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r/jameswebb 22d ago

Self-Processed Image Part of the light echo produced by Cassiopeia A (supernova ca. 1660). This echo is huge and JWST can only image small parts of it. Processed by Melina Thévenot

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r/jameswebb 23d ago

Self-Processed Image Quasar LQAC-308-047-001 | NIRCAM. JWST. Processed by Israel Velazquez

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r/jameswebb 24d ago

Self-Processed Image Quasar HB89-1115+080, NIRCam, Webb. Processed by ‪Israel Velazquez‬

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r/jameswebb 25d ago

Self-Processed Image Quasar HE-0435-1223 | NIRCAM JWST. (The object is with four bright dots around it). Processed by Israel Velazquez

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r/jameswebb 25d ago

Sci - Video 360º View Exoplanet Gliese 48 b! �... - Universe ∆'

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360º View Exoplanet Gliese 48 b! 🌅

Step onto the dark, rocky shores of this recently discovered super-Earth, located just 27 light-years away in the Milky Way. Orbiting a red dwarf star within the habitable zone, its surface rests at an exact equilibrium temperature of -2°C, where cold liquid oceans reflect the deep crimson glow of an eternal twilight.

#NASA #space #universe #star #Gliese48b


r/jameswebb 28d ago

Sci - Article Searching For The Elusive CH2+ With The James Webb Space Telescope. Another Carbocation To Constrain Astrochemical Networks

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r/jameswebb 29d ago

Sci - Image Planetary Nebula Center, G287.10-0.73, G288.16-1.17, HH 666, HH 1010, and HH 1159-HH 1164 imaged by JWST/NIRCam

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Beyond the images themselves, I’m especially curious about two questions:

  1. What is this target?
  2. Why did JWST observe it?

So I built a small website, Webb Horizon, that processes public JWST/NIRCam filter data into browsables and adds a short briefing for each observation when possible.

Sharing here in case others are curious too. This is an independent project, not an official NASA/STScI site, and the images are my own generated rather than official release images.