Release of the deepest image of the universe by the “James Webb”
NASA has released the first color image taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, the clearest and deepest infrared view of the universe.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) released the first color image taken by the James Webb Space Telescope on Tuesday morning.
According to NASA, the image taken by the James Webb Telescope provides the clearest infrared view and the deepest image of the universe to date.
“The James Webb Space Telescope has produced the deepest and clearest infrared image of a distant universe to date,” NASA said in a statement. This image of the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723, known as the first deep web field, is packed with detail.”
“Thousands of galaxies – including the faintest objects seen in the infrared – have appeared on the web for the first time,” the agency explained. This patch of the vast universe covers a portion of the sky roughly the size of a grain of sand held by a person on the ground.”
The statement continues: “This deep field, taken by the Web Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam), is a combination of images at different wavelengths, totaling 12.5 hours of imaging, deep into the infrared wavelengths, beyond the deepest fields. The Hubble Space Telescope has arrived.
NASA said that this image shows the SMACS 0723 galaxy cluster as it was 4.6 billion years ago. Web’s near-infrared camera brings those distant galaxies into sharp focus; They have tiny, faint structures that have never been seen before, including star clusters and scattered features. “Researchers will soon begin to learn more about the mass, age, history and composition of galaxies as the web searches for the universe’s first galaxies.”
According to NASA, this image is one of the first set of full-color images from the James Webb Space Telescope, the rest of which will be released in the coming days.
