Decades in the making, billions of dollars, all so we can say together: My god, it's full of stars!
Revealing the infrared snap at a press conference thatin the past hour, US President Joe Biden said:"Six and a half months ago a rocket launcher carried the world's newest, most powerful deep space telescope on a journey one million miles into the cosmos, unfolding itself deploying a mirror 21-feet-wide, a sunshield the size of a tennis court, and 250,000 tiny shutters each one smaller than a grain of sand.
The picture, dubbed Webb's First Deep Field, shows SMACS 0723, a cluster of galaxies in the foreground magnifying the light from more distant galaxies in the background. Each blob is a source of light, there are thousands of galaxies in the image including some of which have never been observed in infrared light before until now. The light from SMACS 0723 has taken 4.6 billion years to reach the James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST.
Webb's First Deep Field is a composite image made up of snapshots taken at different wavelengths over 12.5 hours. It is the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date.
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