On Monday, NASA released the first full-color image from its James Webb Space Telescope.
The image is the highest resolution ever captured. A deep field image is a long-exposure observation of a region of the sky, which allows the telescope to capture the light of extremely faint, distant objects.
The light in the new image is more than 13 billion years old. Less than 1 billion years have passed since the Big bang. The telescope has looked at the past.
As he waited to see the image in the White House briefing, President Joe Biden said "today's a historic day." The images will remind the world that America can do big things and remind the American people that there is nothing beyond our capacity. There are possibilities that no one has seen before. We are capable of going places no one has ever gone before.
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson told Biden that if he held a grain of sand at arm's length, it would represent the universe he saw in the picture. Nelson said that the image is the first of many. We are going back almost to the beginning since we know the universe is more than 13 billion years old.
SMACS 0723 is a massive group of galaxy clusters that act as a magnifying glass for the objects behind them. The streaks of light are caused by the pull of the SMACS.
There is a collection of full-color images from the new telescope. The rest will be released one by one on Tuesday. They'll include images of stellar nurseries, which contain information on the chemical composition of an atmosphere on a distant planet.
Two decades and $10 billion spent on the giant space observatory has finally begun to pay off for NASA. The last seven months have been exhausting.
After a nail-biting launch on Christmas Day, the new telescope fell into orbit around the sun, 1 million miles from Earth. The observatory brought all its scientific instruments online despite engineers' fears.
The first 400 million years after the Bigbang, there was a gap in the historical record of our universe, which is expected to be filled with the help of the JWST.
The Hubble Space Telescope has been NASA's most powerful observatory since it was launched in 1990.
The first image of Hubble was a big deal when it was released. Thirty years of technological progress is reflected in the new picture.
Vice President Harris said on Monday that the telescope is a great engineering achievement. Thanks to dedicated people who have been working for decades in engineering and on scientific marvels, we can look to the sky with new understanding.
It should be possible for the new space observatory to see much further into the universe than Hubble could.
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