NASA released first science images from James Webb Space Telescope - The Robot Report

In recent announcement by NASA, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) science team released five spectacular images in its first science package. Astronomers, researchers and scientists smarter and more educated than me have spent a lot of time providing their thoughts on what we can see in each of these images. But let's take a moment to look at what NASA released and understand why NASA chose this set of images for the first science release. Image 1 – The spikes seen above are not artistic, but rather an artifact of the actual telescope. One of the unique characteristics that will grace nearly every image taken from the JWST will be the iconic "diffraction spikes" that appear around stars in an image.