After 14 years of development and six months of calibrating the telescope, it's ready to go. The first colored image from the space telescope was shared by NASA and President Joe Biden.
"Webb's First Deep Field" is the most detailed image of the distant universe to date. The picture shows a snapshot of a cluster of galaxies that appeared 4.5 billion years ago. The stars seen in the background are magnified by the mass of all the galaxies seen in the image. Some of the galaxies have never-before-seen features that will soon be studied. The Near-Infrared Camera was used to capture the first deep field.
It has taken a long time for NASA to get to this moment. The telescope was supposed to be launched in 2007. NASA finished work on the project in 2016 and said it would be ready to launch by the year's end. The assembly of the telescope was completed by NASA in the year 2019.
The image Biden shared is the first of many that will be shared by NASA. Tomorrow morning, the rest of the initial slate will arrive when NASA holds a press conference. NASA TV will show live coverage of the event at 10:30 AM.
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