President Biden called it a new window into the history of our universe. We are getting a glimpse of the first light to illuminate that window.
The most advanced telescope ever sent to space was launched on Christmas Day 2011. The collaboration between the US, Europe, and Canada is able to peer further and more accurately across the universe than any other instrument.
Engineers have been working around the clock to get the machine up and running. The telescope is 1.5 kilometers away from Earth and ready to use. Mark McCaughrean is a senior advisor for science and exploration at the European Space Agency. It is so surprising.
The image unveiled today by President Biden is the first in a series of pictures that will be released this week. The atmosphere of a planet in another solar system will be the fifth observation.
It is similar to putting eyeglasses on for the first time. An astronomer at Washington University in St. Louis described the image as "poetic".
The test images are a glimpse of what the telescope can do. Detailed studies of exoplanets, investigations of remote galaxies, and expeditions deep into the sky and1-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-6556
"This observatory is seeing stuff we've never seen before, and it's only in first gear," says Michael Menzel, lead mission systems engineer for the JWST.
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