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Making your own images from JWST data

We live in rather amazing times, with private citizens travelling to space and citizen scientists contributing to the knowledge base of professional astronomy. Now, just as it did with Hubble, NASA has made data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) available for download, for anyone to process for themselves. Here we walk you through, step by step, how to do it.

Start by searching for ‘MAST Portal’ in your web browser or visit , an archive named after Barbara Mikulski,

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