Look at that baby universe! James Webb Telescope's first image makes its long-anticipated debut.
The first full-color image from the James Webb Space Telescope has been unveiled by NASA and President Joe Biden, and it's the deepest and and most detailed image of the universe to ever be captured.
"We're going back 13.5 billion years," NASA administrator Bill Nelson said at the press conference ."And since we know the universe is 13.8 billion years old, we're going back almost to the beginning." Nelson added that the telescope"is going to be so precise you are going to see whether or not planets are habitable," and that its unprecedented views of the universe would enable scientists to find answers to questions that haven't even been asked yet.
The previous record-holder for capturing the deepest and oldest glimpse into space is the Hubble Space Telescope. Its series of deep image fields showed how, several hundred million years after the Big Bang, galaxies of glistening stars had already coalesced in our young universe.
The JWST's extreme sensitivity to infrared frequencies meant that it needed to be isolated from disruptive heat signals on Earth, and it now rests at a gravitationally stable location beyond the moon's orbit — known as a Lagrange point — after being launched there from French Guiana atop an Ariane 5 rocket on Christmas Day 2021.
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