So, it’s JWST Week

Pamela L. Gay, Ph.D.
5 min readJul 13, 2022

On Tuesday morning, at 10:30am Eastern, NASA is going to release the N+1 few fully processed science images acquired by JWST. I’ve heard rumors of researchers crying when they first see these results, and NASA is putting so much fanfare into this release that somehow President Biden has gotten involved, and now he’s going to be releasing the first science image on Monday, at 5pm Eastern.

To say NASA is pulling out every stop to announce that this telescope is working may be one of the bigger understatements for 2022 (which admittedly, has been more of a year for overstating things, rather than…

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Pamela L. Gay, Ph.D.

Astronomer, technologist, & creative focused on using new media to engage people in learning and doing science. Opinions & typos my own.