James Webb Space Telescope’s 1st image shows deepest, sharpest view of universe ever. The $10 billion US joint venture of NASA, the Canadian Space Agency and the European Space Agency, has photographed the farthest humanity has ever seen in both time and distance.
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The “deep field” image is filled with lots of stars, with massive galaxies in the foreground and faint and extremely distant galaxies peeking through here and there. Part of the image is light from not too long after the Big Bang, which took place 13.8 billion years ago.
The busy image with hundreds of specks, streaks, spirals and swirls of white, yellow, orange and red is only “one little speck of the universe,” NASA administrator Bill Nelson said.
I was astonished to learn that, with so many objects in the image, that ‘speck of the universe’ is only about the size of a grain of sand held at arm’s length by someone on the ground.
I am so glad this thing worked. It basically ate over half our astronomy budget for over a decade. But it has clearly paid off.
I am always fascinated by the fact, that we can’t travel through time, but we can watch through the time.