Here’s how to see Webb’s new pictures

These first images from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Inter­na­tion­al Space Tele­scope will demon­strate Webb at his full poten­tial, ready to begin his mis­sion to unfold the infrared Uni­verse. From the deep­est images of our uni­verse ever tak­en to stel­lar life cycles, inter­act­ing galax­ies and glimpses of exo­plan­ets, Webb will delight us with a vari­ety of topics.

Watch live on ESA Web TV on July 12 from 16:00 CEST

NASA, ESA and CSA are host­ing a joint broad­cast to reveal the new images one by one with live expert com­men­tary. ESA will mod­er­ate the broad­cast on ESA Web TV. It begins with a keynote speech at 4:00 p.m. CEST, the image unveil­ing in a live broad­cast with expert com­men­tary from 4:30 p.m. CEST and a media brief­ing at 6:00 p.m. CEST.

Press release and where to find the new images

The images will be pub­lished simul­ta­ne­ous­ly on Web­b’s and part­ner agen­cies’ web­sites and social media accounts.

Vis­it the esa.int home­page when each image will be unveiled between 16:30 CEST and 17:30 CEST on July 12th. The full set of images will also be avail­able through our ESA Space in Images archive here.

A press release will be pub­lished on esa.int/webb once all images have been pre­sent­ed in the live broadcast

Also, book­mark www.esawebb.org for all Webb com­mu­ni­ty updates.

Personal Media Opportunities

Europe-based media are invit­ed to join ESA in a spe­cial activ­i­ty on July 12 at ESOC (Darm­stadt, Ger­many) and ESTEC (Noord­wijk, The Nether­lands) to cel­e­brate the image release. More details and accred­i­ta­tion here.

Join public #EuropeMeetsWebb events

Spe­cial events are being held across Europe to cel­e­brate this mis­sion­ary mile­stone and make the images avail­able to more cit­i­zens across the con­ti­nent. Find an event near you here.

Be part of the social media buzz

There are plen­ty of ways to join the Webb image buzz across our main social media chan­nels as the count­down to the big reveal begins. Here’s a reminder of our main accounts and some fun new chal­lenges to watch out for this week:

Twit­ter
con­se­quences @ESA_Webb for the lat­est mis­sion updates. The first pic­tures will also be pub­lished by @esascience and @esa.

What obser­va­tions or astro­nom­i­cal objects with Webb are you most look­ing for­ward to? Watch out for a #Web­bChal­lenge com­ing from @ESA_Webb lat­er in the week!

Join the gen­er­al con­ver­sa­tion by using the hash­tags #Europe­MeetsWebb #Webb­SeesNext or #UnfoldThe­Uni­verse

Face­book
Have you joined the Webb Face­book Social yet? Inter­na­tion­al mis­sion part­ners NASA, ESA and CSA have joined forces to bring you the lat­est Webb updates this week and next with spe­cial posts.

Don’t for­get to fol­low @ESAWebb, our offi­cial Face­book page for Webb, and @EuropeanSpaceAgency for Tues­day’s amaz­ing image reveal.

Insta­gram
If Insta­gram is your go-to social then fol­low @ESAWebb where the new images will also appear. There’s a chal­lenge for you to join there too, so check out our posts and sto­ries this week.

Spo­ti­fy Music Challenge
It’s the final count­down! When you think of Webb and his sci­en­tif­ic goals, what songs come to mind? We invite you to add ours see fur­ther Spo­ti­fy playlist that builds on songs about launch and deploy­ment to cov­er every­thing about stars, plan­ets, galax­ies and beyond. Sub­mit your ideas as answers to the appro­pri­ate ESA Twit­ter, Face­book or Pin­ter­est posts or via ESA’s Insta­gram chan­nel in our spe­cial Fri­day night ESA quiz sto­ry. The updat­ed Spo­ti­fy playlist will be unveiled on July 11th and announced on our main social channels.

About Webb

The Webb tele­scope lift­ed off at one Ari­ane 5 rock­et from Euro­pean Space­port in French Guiana on Decem­ber 25, 2021 on its excit­ing mis­sion to unlock the mys­ter­ies of the uni­verse. Webb, a part­ner­ship between NASA, ESA and the Cana­di­an Space Agency (CSA), aims to answer unan­swered ques­tions about the uni­verse and make ground­break­ing dis­cov­er­ies in all areas of astron­o­my. ESA’s main con­tri­bu­tions to the mis­sion are: the NIR­Spec instru­ment; 50% of the MIRI instru­ment; the pro­vi­sion of launch ser­vices; and staff to sup­port aca­d­e­m­ic activ­i­ties. In return for these con­tri­bu­tions, Euro­pean sci­en­tists receive a min­i­mum 15% share of the total observ­ing time, as with the NASA/ESA Hub­ble Space Telescope.