First Image Released From Webb Space Telescope

Via press release:



The international NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has delivered the deepest, sharpest infrared image of the distant Universe so far. U.S. President Joe Biden unveiled the image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723, known as Webb’s First Deep Field, during a White House event on Monday 11 July.

The image – which focuses on a spot in the sky that, from the perspective of someone on the ground, is about the size of what would be covered by a grain of sand held at arm’s length – reveals thousands of galaxies, including the faintest objects ever observed in the infrared.

Known as Webb’s First Deep Field, this image features the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723, which is is overflowing with detail. This image is among the telescope’s first-full colour images.