Sneak a peek at the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the early universe ever taken — all in a day’s work for the Webb telescope. (Literally! Webb was able to capture this image in less than one day, while similar deep field images from Hubble can take multiple weeks.)
If you held a grain of sand up to the sky at arm’s length, that tiny speck is the size of Webb’s view in this image. Imagine — galaxies galore within a grain, including light from galaxies that traveled billions of years to us! Why do some of the galaxies in this image appear bent? The combined mass of this galaxy cluster acts as a “gravitational lens,” bending light rays from more distant galaxies behind it, magnifying them.
This image isn’t the farthest back we’ve ever observed. Non-infrared missions like COBE and WMAP saw the universe much closer to the Big Bang (about 380,000 years after), when there was only microwave background radiation, but no stars or galaxies yet. Webb sees a few hundred million years after the Big Bang.
The James Webb Space Telescope is an international collaboration between NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the ESA - European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency. The Space Telescope Science Institute is the science and mission operations center for Webb.
Tune in tomorrow at 10:30 am ET (14:30 UTC) for the reveal of the rest of Webb’s First Images!
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Because one pic won’t be clear so the probe takes several photos in rapid succession at different exposures and blends them together to bring more highlight and detail thats why in this pic,bright parts of the image are much brighter, and the image seems to have more “depth.” Colors get expanded to show more bright blues, greens, reds and everything in between,looks heavily edited indeed but you are looking at a gazillion pics in one
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So that simply means we are living in the future.
Meaning somewhere below us, There is a life being formed that considers us as distant past civilization.
Damn.
Amazing. If these are galaxies from an area of a grain of sand held at arm’s length, then the Bible is correct when it says there are much more stars in the sky than all the sand on earth!