Surprise! Spectacular Webb telescope image just revealed by Biden

Thank you Joe.

At the White House on Monday evening, President Joe Biden revealed a Cosmic image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope, a last-minute surprise, before NASA's much-awaited reveal of the first full-color photos on July 12 It's a glimpse of what's to come from a telescope that will peer into the deepest part of the universe.

The space observatory will be able to see through thick clouds of dust and make discoveries about the composition of distant planets.

Vice President Kamala Harris said at the unveil of the telescope that it allowed them to see deeper into space than before.

The first picture shows a view of the universe. The light has traveled for 13 billion years.

This is the deepest and most detailed image of the distant universe to date. NASA said that the image of the galaxy cluster SMACS-0723 is overflowing with detail. "For the first time, thousands of galaxies, including the faintest objects ever observed in the IR, have appeared in the view of the astronomer." There is a patch of sky that is roughly the size of a grain of sand held at arm's length.

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President Biden said that the images would remind the world of America's ability to do big things.

The deep space observatory

NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Canadian Space Agency collaborated on the design and construction of the telescope. "With this telescope, it's really hard not to break records," said Thomas Zurbuchen, an astronomer and NASA's associate administrator.

The gold-coated mirrors on the James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA / Chris Gunn

Here's how it will be done.

• The mirror is over 21 feet wide. The Hubble Space Telescope's mirror is two and a half times bigger. The more light that is captured, the more distant the objects are. A few hundred million years after the Bigbang, the telescope will peer at stars and galaxies that formed over 13 billion years ago.

  "We're going to see the very first stars and galaxies that ever formed, and we're going to do it at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee," Jean said.

• Unlike Hubble, which mostly views light that's visible to us, Webb views light that's not visible. We can see a lot more of the universe. The light waves are more dispersed by the dense clouds because of the longer wavelength of the IR. Hubble's eyesight can't penetrate places that are not visible to the naked eye.

  It lifts the veil.

• Our understanding of distant worlds will be greatly improved by the use of specialized equipment that is carried by the telescope. Water, carbon dioxide, and methane can be detected by the instruments in the atmosphere of distant planets. The astronomer will look at planets in the stars. What will we find?

  Mercedes Lpez-Morales, an exoplanet researcher and astronomer at the Center for Astrophysics-Harvard & Smithsonian, told Mashable that they might learn things they didn't think about.