This amazing image shows “the oldest documented light in the history of the Universe, from over 13 billion — let me say that again — 13 billion years ago”, said POTUS when releasing the image. “It’s hard to even fathom.” Here's how scientists reacted:
The first image released from the Webb telescope shows the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 as it appeared 4.6 billion years ago.The wait is over. The first scientific image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has dropped, and astronomers are mesmerized. US President Joe Biden released the historic picture, which is the deepest astronomical image yet taken of the distant Universe, during a press conference at the White House on Monday. NASA will publish more images on 12 July.
“I’m just amazed,” says Vivian U, an astronomer at the University of California, Irvine. “I’m just panning through the image, figuring out what all the smudges are and why they’re there.”. The first batch of images to be released, including the deep-field shot, has been selected to encompass all of the observatory’s major scientific targets: the early Universe, the evolution of galaxies and stars, and planets beyond the Solar System.
Webb’s first image shows galaxies that might date back more than 13 billion years, nearly all the way to the Big Bang that created the Universe 13.8 billion years ago. It calls to mind several iconic deep-field images taken by Hubble. The first of those, made over the course of ten days in December 1995, revealed that what looked like an empty patch of sky was dotted with thousands of previously unseen galaxies. Webb’s first image took just 12.
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