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Updates from Tom Clarke, science editor, and Jess Breadman, producer, at NASA Goddard. Live reporting by Emily Mee, live blogger, and Alexander Martin, technology reporter NASA administrator Bill Nelson has just taken the stage,"You should have seen the president and vice president last night, they were like kids," he said. That friendship is no small part of the fact the JWST made it into space at all.
Dr Nathan Adams, a research associate at the University of Manchester, said:"Within minutes I was awash with notifications from my colleagues about the noticeable improvement in depth compared to Hubble. "Overall, this was an amazing teaser of JWST's revolutionary capabilities, and I cannot wait to see more data."Our science and technology editor Tom Clarke is at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre in Maryland, where the new images are set to be revealed soon...Eighteen NASA staff have just come into the room, each of them dressed as one of the 18 hexagonal mirrors that make James Webb's massive 6.5 metre-wide light-gathering mirror.
"The first image is a minor glimpse of what is to come," added Dr Wakeford, an exoplanet specialist from the University of Bristol. The JWST is also going to be used"to study planets and other bodies in our solar system to determine their origin and evolution and compare them with exoplanets, planets that orbit other stars".
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