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All nasa observational data is open access.... The catch is, I don't know if everything is imaged in the way you think. Especially if it's mostly not in the visible spectrum. Afik it's in numerical data files that you have to be trained to interpret or manipulate.
Some one can add on if I'm missing something.
Comment by nivlark at 14/09/2023 at 08:36 UTC
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Every digital image is just a "numerical data file", whether it comes from JWST or your phone camera. It's true that astronomical images use a different file format (FITS rather than e.g. PNG or JPEG) but there are plenty of programs that know how to read them.