Good morning. This is the Monday, October 17 edition of First Up, the Star’s daily morning digest.
Sign upHere’s the latest on the work that went into presenting the images of the James Webb Telescope, the impact of long COVID on health care and the few public washrooms in Toronto.James Webb telescope pictures didn’t begin as stunning images — they were brought to life by researchers
Erik Rosolowsky, an associate professor of physics at the University of Alberta, was among the first Canadian researchers to put the world’s greatest space telescope to use. But the image he first glimpsed of the Triangulum Galaxy is dramatically different from the full-colour photo later released by NASA, Steve McKinley reports. The final result “is the work of hundreds of people,” Rosolowsky says.The data emerging from the James Webb Space Telescope, in its rawest form, is uneven.