The first glimpse from the most powerful telescope ever launched into space will change our understanding of the dawn of the universe.
The light from many different twinkling galaxies, among the oldest in the universe, has been captured in sharp detail by the james wbb space telescope At the White House event where the image was unveiled, Joe Biden said it was a new window into the history of our universe.
The US president said it was difficult to comprehend. I think it is amazing. It is an historic time for science and technology.
Bill Nelson said the image showed the light of the galaxies traveling for billions of years before it reached the telescope. He said that more images will be released by the space agency and will be close to the start point of the universe. He said that they were going back to the beginning.
A series of high-resolution color pictures from the James Webb space telescope will be shown off by NASA on Tuesday. Nelson said that they will include the deepest image of our universe.
The telescope, three decades in the making and launched last year, could change our understanding of the universe by showing us how the universe appeared 13 billion years ago, according to experts.
The $10 billion telescope is able to peek inside the atmospheres of exoplanets and observe some of the oldest galaxies in the universe by using a system of filters and lens that are invisible to the eyes. Professor of astronomy at the University of Arizona,Marcia Rieke, said that the system has performed perfectly.
"Webb can see backwards in time just after the big bang by looking for galaxies that are so far away, the light has taken many billions of years to get from those galaxies to ourselves." Webb is larger than Hubble so that it can see more distant objects.
The telescope was launched into space in December after being in development for more than a decade. It is the most powerful telescope ever to be sent into space and is currently around one million miles away from Earth.
The initial goal of the project was to see the first stars and galaxies formed after the big bang. The telescope should be considered a great engineering achievement according to the US vice-president.
The entire observatory is performing well according to the director of the UK Astronomy Technology Centre in Edinburgh.
It is hard to believe that it has turned out to be so great. It is absolutely incredible.
The Carina nebula is one of the initial targets for observation, according to NASA. The universe is 7,6000 light years away and contains many large stars, which are several times larger than the sun.
WASP-96 b, a giant planet outside our solar system that is made mostly of gas, is one of the areas of focus. The images from these targets will be made public.
Richard Ellis, professor of astrophysics at University College London who was part of the committee that first conceived the telescope, said it was exciting to see the image.
As we are ourselves made of the material synthesized in stars over the past 13 billion years, JWST has the ability to trace back to our own origins. Everyone is able to participate in this adventure.
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