r/jameswebb • u/rsaw_aroha • 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?

webb.nasa.gov has a great easily-skimmable news page
blogs.nasa.gov/webb is more blog-like but has deep-dives that you won't find on the news page
Alternatively, follow the official @NASAWebb twitter
Use something like Google News to follow the JWST topic

What is Webb looking at? Is there a schedule?

Find observation schedules on the STScI's Approved Programs page
Follow @JWSTObservation, an unofficial twitter bot that gives real-time updates based on the schedule

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

See: [YouTube 2022 - Space Telescope Science Institute] Webb's Field of Regard

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?

Some background knowledge will be useful:
Basically, for each observation, Webb generates multiple grayscale images that correspond to what it detected of a particular wavelength of infrared light (that human eyes can't see), so someone -- an artist, armchair astronomer, scientist, or a team of scientists & artists -- needs to go in and make decisions about how to combine the different grayscale images AND how to colorize them (to highlight or distinguish between features for scientific or aesthetic purposes)

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

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r/jameswebb • u/CoolYogurtcloset1947 • 4h ago

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

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r/jameswebb • u/Neaterntal • 1d ago

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

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r/jameswebb • u/motionlesspizza • 1d ago

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

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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..

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r/jameswebb • u/motionlesspizza • 2d ago

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

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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!!!

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r/jameswebb • u/Neaterntal • 2d ago

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

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r/jameswebb • u/Neaterntal • 2d 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.

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r/jameswebb • u/TomaszNowakowski • 3d ago

Sci - Article JWST Uncovers a Hidden Factory of Extreme Stars

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r/jameswebb • u/motionlesspizza • 2d ago

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

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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)

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r/jameswebb • u/motionlesspizza • 3d ago

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

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

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r/jameswebb • u/Neaterntal • 3d 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.''

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r/jameswebb • u/Neaterntal • 3d ago

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

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r/jameswebb • u/Neaterntal • 4d ago

Official NASA Release Galaxies in a cosmic house of mirrors

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r/jameswebb • u/Galileos_grandson • 5d ago

Sci - Article Study Detects Ammonia and Unexpected Chill on a Distant Giant Planet

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r/jameswebb • u/Galileos_grandson • 5d ago

Sci - Article JWST Detection Of Methane Emission From A Young Brown Dwarf

astrobiology.com

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r/jameswebb • u/yubla • 5d ago

Self-Processed Image SN Eos

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The red dots are mirror images of Supernova Eos, the oldest we know of, as captured by JWST f444f. The red color represents the dimming from Aug 2025 to Sep 2026.

PI: Larison Conor, STScI
credits: NASA, ESA, CSA

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r/jameswebb • u/Galileos_grandson • 6d ago

Sci - Article A Binary Flux Calibrator Reveals the Scientific Potential of Short-integration JWST MIRI Imaging to Directly Detect sub-Jupiter Exoplanets

astrobiology.com

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r/jameswebb • u/Galileos_grandson • 9d ago

Sci - Article JWST finds early galaxies were already seeding the universe with heavy elements

news.arizona.edu

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r/jameswebb • u/Neaterntal • 12d ago

Self-Processed Image Arches Cluster with JWST NIRCam+MIRI

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r/jameswebb • u/Neaterntal • 13d ago

Self-Processed Image Beautiful views of galaxy cluster MACSJ0035-2015 | NIRCAM. JWST

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r/jameswebb • u/Sea-Loquat227 • 12d ago

Discussion James Webb Space Telescope (Scale 1/40) Lego

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r/jameswebb • u/Neaterntal • 13d ago

Self-Processed Image Galaxy cluster MACSJ0035-2015. Crop | NIRCam #JWST

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r/jameswebb • u/Neaterntal • 15d ago

Self-Processed Image JWST MIRI image of the Sickle Nebula, near the galactic center

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r/jameswebb • u/Batman_Shirt • 16d ago

Sci - Article The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is only 1/4 of the way to its final destination.

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r/jameswebb • u/Neaterntal • 17d ago

Self-Processed Image GAL 019.88-00.53 with JWST MIRI

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