The anxiety is high with this one.
This morning,
released even more tantalizing images and data gathered by the agency’s powerful James Webb Space Telescope, showing off vibrant nebulas and exotic galaxies in unprecedented detail. The stunning debut of this cadre of images reveals the diversity of science the observatory will be capable of achieving while it’s in space., or JWST, that
and President Joe Biden released yesterday during a special briefing at the White House. That first picture — a portion of the night sky called SMACS 0723 — showcased a dizzying array of thousands of distant galaxies, all bundled into just a tiny dot in the sky about the size of a grain of sand when held out an arm’s distance.
hailed the image as the deepest infrared image of the Universe ever taken. In fact, the light from some of the galaxies in the picture has traveled roughly 13 billion years to reach JWST.
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