The First Full-Color James Webb Image Just Dropped, and It's Beautiful

This is the first time we have seen the universe this way.

We're absolutely blown away by the first full-color image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, which was shown off by President Joe Biden and Vice President Harris.

NASA administrator Bill Nelson said that the image shows "just a little speck of the universe."

It's hundreds of millions of years after the Bigbang.

Nelson said that if you held a grain of sand on the tip of your finger, that was the part of the universe you were seeing.

NASA's Hubble space telescope has held the record for the longest time, peering at the most distant galaxy ever recorded.

The news comes after NASA announced that all of the telescope's seventeen "modes" to operate its various instruments have been checked out.

Decades in the Making

Over $10 billion in funding has been spent on the image. The telescope traveled a million miles away from Earth in January.

We have at least four more images to look forward to. The last shots from the telescope's first batches will be released by NASA tomorrow at 10:30 am.

We can't wait to see what the space observatory has in store for us after today's announcement.

The observatory has more on what to expect from the first images.