First Full-Color Image From The James Webb Space Telescope
The long-awaited day has come when the first scientific photograph of the universe, taken with the space telescope designed by James Webb, has been published.
The original image from the James Webb Space Telescope is the farthest object humanity has ever seen in both time and distance, closer to the dawn of time and the edge of the universe.
This image will be followed on Tuesday by the release of four more shots of galactic beauty taken by the telescope’s initial outward looks.
The “deep field” image, released Monday during a short White House event, is filled with numerous stars, with massive galaxies in the foreground and faint and extremely distant galaxies peeking here and there.
The image shows SMACS 0723, a cluster of galaxies in the Volans constellation in the Southern Hemisphere, with the cluster itself about 4.6 billion light-years away.
Part of the image is light shortly after the Big Bang, which is estimated to have occurred 13.8 billion years ago.
The uploaded image, with hundreds of specks, stripes, spirals and swirls in white, yellow, orange and red—the effect of gravitational warping as light travels vast distances to reach the telescope—is just “one small grain of the universe,” the NASA administrator said. Bill Nelson said.
The crane photos include a view of a giant gas planet outside our solar system, two images of a nebula where stars are born and die in breathtaking beauty, and an updated classic image of five densely clustered galaxies dancing around each other.
