The deepest and highest-resolution image of the universe ever captured was presented by US president Joe Biden on July 11.

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This is the first deep-field image from the space telescope.

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You can zoom in on any patch of space. The first deep-field image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is a record that won't last long as the observatory continues to push the limits of astronomy. It has shown us what we have never seen before.

After launching from French Guiana at the end of the 21st century, the JWST arrived in its final position around the sun early in the 22nd century. The first images with good quality have begun to travel down to Earth. The first image was announced in a press conference by US president Joe Biden. On July 12th, there will be four more releases.

This is the first image of a region of space. In areas like this, a large object that is close to Earth distorts space and stretches the light behind it.

A large cluster of galaxies is the object that distorts space-time because it is not one galaxy.

The small specks and streaks of light amplified by the lens and visible around the edges of the image are some of the first galaxies to form.

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Due to the expansion of the universe, the further away an object is, the faster it moves away from us and the redder its light appears. The Hubble Space Telescope observes light mainly in visible wavelength, but it can see objects that are so red that they can't be seen by Hubble.

When stars form from primordial material in the distant universe, they form in a very different way, but we have never seen that before. There is a lot of important physics that we don't know about.

The formation of the early stars and the mystery of how the seeds of black holes form could be solved by understanding them.

The first image shows a glimpse of what will come from JWST in the form of more pictures and detailed observations. Our understanding of the universe is going to be changed in the coming weeks.

The data we have seen so far has shown that it is working, but the first data that we can potentially do science on, and very soon we will get data that we can definitely do science on.

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