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?

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  • Speak up if you have any constructive critique -- if I missed anything that you think should be in such a "readme first" FAQ, let me know and I'll add it.

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    This is great! I hope it gets 'sticky'ed' to top.

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  • This should be pinned on top

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    Webbtelescope.org

    Esawebb.org

    Both of these have the full size images in the download areas

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    Flickr (first link in the OP) also has full size images. Not sure what you mean with the "why gatekeep?" question.

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    Love you 🥺

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  • I've always used the Webb latest photo page as my "homepage" on MacOS so I can keep up with the latest photo. The switch to the new webpage doesn't format properly with the photo like the old one did...now the descriptive text appears at the top and you have to scroll down to see the image. This makes for a messy looking page to land on when you first open Safari. The image should be at the top and it will be more attractive. Just a suggestion.

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  • Since this was posted, spacetelescopelive has launched and it would be good to list under the "What is Webb looking at?" bullet since it's the official public-level schedule: https://spacetelescopelive.org/webb

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  • Why am I finding JWST images of the Orion nebula on sites like Yahoo, and Pluto on Youtube but not on any of the official or semi-official channels listed in the OP post? I'm really confused. :/ It's very frustrating to me.

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    Why am I finding JWST images of the Orion nebula on sites like Yahoo, and Pluto on Youtube but not on any of the official or semi-official channels listed in the OP post? I'm really confused. :/ It's very frustrating to me.

    Because while some of the observational data is kept private for up to 12 months at the request of the scientific proposal that requested it, much of the data is immediately available for literally anyone to download and process into an image. As more people get interested and better at doing that, news sites looking for clicks are increasingly grabbing images from reddit (e.g., this sub) and elsewhere.

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    It's very frustrating, it appears instead of a neat NASA/ESA/CSA approved album, it's just being eaten up by news articles looking for clicks.

    Just an album, updated when images are released to media, with download links to the original, I think that's all we want.

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    Just an album, updated when images are released to media, with download links to the original, I think that's all we want.

    And that's what you have on flickr or webbtelescope.org.

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  • You can find the high res png pictures on their Flickr account.

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    No. flickr is good for giving you various sizes of jpg's to download

    Actually u/Curious_Control7933 was correct -- Flickr also makes the original full size png files available.

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    On the all sizes download page for any flickr photo (e.g., the link you posted 6h ago), the first choice under the list of Sizes is "Original".

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  • Thanks for posting this, I am an amazed artist who took calculus twenty years ago … wishing to learn more about pixelation and limits of the light capturing and recording, etc. 🌞🌞🌞

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  • So what is the big JWST news for September 1?

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  • Great information—Thanks!

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  • Are the deep field images we currently have from webb the farthest it can view? Have we already looked as far as we can with webb, other than distinguishing which galaxy has the most red shift.

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