First photo from the new space telescope reveals a tiny patch of sky in magnificent detail.
Every little patch of light is a distant galaxy like our own Milky Way. There are thousands of them in this image alone, most of them tiny dots, and many visible in more detail. That's a whole lot of space you're seeing there, and the really staggering thing is just how tiny this area of the universe would be from our own perspective: NASA explains that this view covers a piece of the sky approximately the size of a grain of sand, held at arm's length by a person on the ground.
This deep field image was taken by Webb's Near-Infrared camera, and it's a composite made from an assortment of images at different wavelengths that took 12.5 hours to shoot. And brilliantly, the Hubble Space Telescope once took its own shot of SMACS 0723 years back, which took weeks to assemble and shows considerably less detail. Here it is:
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