In a Galaxy Far, Far Away

Today NASA has released the first images captured by the James Webb observatory. These include incredible pictures of the SMACS 0723 cluster, the Carina Nebula, Stephan's Quintet and the Southern Ring Nebula.

Professor Brant Robertson from the Astronomy and Astrophysics department at UCSC has released an interactive Leaflet.js powered map of the James Webb Telescope's first Deep Field image of SMACS 0723. SMACS 0723 is a huge cluster of galaxies in the Southern Hemisphere constellation Volans. 

You can also view interactive zoomable images of the newly released images on the dedicated Webb Space Telescope website. Their Gallery section includes high-resolution zoombale images of SMACS 0723, the Carina Nebula, Stephan's Quintet and the Southern Ring Nebula.

All four images can also be downloaded in high-resolution from the Image Resources page of the Webb Space Telescope website. This means that you can easily create your own interactive Leaflet.js maps of these galaxies far, far away. If you want to create a zoomable image map with Leaflet.js then you might find the image overlay section of the documentation helpful.