WATCH | Coldplay Sing ‘A Sky Full Of Stars' To Honour NASA Webb's First Full-Colour Images

During the Berlin concert, Coldplay performed their song A Sky Full of Stars to appreciate the "heavenly views" captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. The five images were also displayed.

British rock band Coldplay honoured the James Webb Space Telescope's first full-colour images during a concert in Berlin. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) revealed five full-colour images captured by the world's most powerful space observatory on Tuesday, July 12, 2022. 

Coldplay are currently in Berlin, Germany, as part of a concert tour called 'Music of the SPHERES'. The band honoured Webb's images while performing at Olympiastadion Berlin, a stadium in Berlin, on July 12. 

A Sky Full Of Stars

During the Berlin concert, Coldplay performed their song A Sky Full of Stars to appreciate the "heavenly views" captured by Webb. Also, the five images captured by Webb were displayed on the stage at Olympiastadion one by one. 

Coldplay posted a video clip from the Berlin concert on Twitter with the caption, "Such heavenly views ✨".

Quoting their tweet, NASA replied: "Never forget that you ARE a sky full of stars. The same stuff that makes these heavenly views lives in you". 

The European Space Agency (ESA) also quoted Coldplay's tweet, posting a stanza from Coloratura, a song by Coldplay. 

The ESA shared the following stanza from Coloratura:

"And up there in the Heavens

Galileo saw reflections of us too

Pluribus unum, unus mundus

And all the satellites imbue

The purple, yellow, green, red, orange and the blue."

Replying to Coldplay, the official account for the NASA James Webb Space Telescope wrote: "Look at the stars, look how they shine for you ✨🎶".

This is a verse from Yellow, another famous song by Coldplay. 

Webb’s First Full-Colour Images

The first full-colour image to be released from Webb is that of a galaxy cluster called SMACS 0723. Known as Webb's First Deep Field, the image depicts thousands of galaxies. 

NASA also unveiled images of a gas giant exoplanet called WASP-96 b, a planetary nebula called Southern Ring, a galaxy group called Stephan's Quintet, and a star-forming region called NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. These images captured by Webb reveal exceptional and never-seen-before details of the cosmic objects. 

Webb's images of the Southern Ring Planetary Nebula reveal new details from the late stages of a star's life, which can help the world better understand how stars evolve. 

The image of Stephan's Quintet provides new insights into galaxy evolution and black holes. 

The fifth and final full-colour image from Webb reveals emerging stellar nurseries and individual stars in the Carina Nebula. Known as the "Cosmic Cliffs", the image shows previously invisible areas of star birth. 

More About Webb

The James Webb Space Telescope is an international collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). The telescope is 100 times more powerful than its predecessor, the Hubble Space Telescope. Webb covers longer wavelengths than Hubble and has greatly improved sensitivity. 

The primary goal of Webb will be to study the formation of galaxies, stars, and planets. Webb is a giant leap forward in our desire to understand the universe and its origins. 

The powerful time machine with infrared vision can look back in time, more than 13.5 billion years back, to see the first stars and galaxies forming out of the darkness of the early universe. 

The space observatory will examine every phase of cosmic history, from the first luminous glows after the Big Bang to the formation of galaxies, stars, and planets, and the evolution of our own solar system.