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MUST SEE VIDEO: NASA reveals first full-color images from Webb telescope

(NBC) - NASA unveiled the first full-color image from the most powerful telescope ever made on Monday, giving astronomers and space enthusiasts the best look at a galaxy far, far away.

NBC's Tom Costello has the details on more stunning images unveiled today.

These images are really just spectacular.

For the first time ever, we're seeing these deep, high resolution images of our own universe.

So take a look what we're talking about here and why everybody is so excited.

Last night, NASA and the White House unveiled these first images known as Webb's "First Deep Field," a kaleidoscope of galaxies, as they appeared 4.6 billion years ago.

Astronomer Neil DeGrasse Tyson says the spiked objects are local stars.

Everything out there is a galaxy, many of them actually distorted.

They look like arcs.

And this morning, NASA releasing more images, one-by-one showing a full spectrum - a color spectrum of an exoplanet, the lifecycle of stars, how galaxies interact and grow.

The first images we've ever seen, because the Webb telescope uses infrared eyes to pull these faint and very distant objects, like stars and galaxies into sharp focus.

What lies beyond?

The naked eye can't even see that,

So, this is now even better than what Hubble could see.

Hubble telescope launched back in 1990.

In this case, NASA and the European space agency, the Canadians, all collaborated.

A $10-billion tennis court-sized observatory - the largest, most powerful ever built - and launched on a rocket back on Christmas Day took a month to travel to its orbit, which is around the sun, a million miles from Earth.

The release now of these images, a huge milestone for NASA, as astronomers hope to use the special telescope really to study never before seen galaxies and star clusters and get better pictures of the modern universe how it all came to be and might there be life out there.

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