Breaking: James Webb Telescope’s first ‘stunning’ deep-space image revealed
The most powerful telescope ever built made a stunning debut with the release of its first science image, an intricately detailed deep-space image of a galaxy cluster showing thousands of galaxies and some of the faintest — and oldest — light ever recorded.
Launched in late December, the Webb telescope is 100 times more powerful than its astronomy-altering predecessor, the Hubble, thanks primarily to a mirror that has 6.25 times the area. It’s designed to observe the celestial skies in infrared, not only allowing it to pierce the veils of cosmic dust that often obscure visible light, but better equipping it to see objects in the furthest reaches of the universe.
The five images to be released were selected not only to show off the capabilities of the new telescope, but also to highlight the four major themes of Webb telescope research, she said. Biden’s late arrival on the Webb bandwagon should not detract from the veritable army that has spent the last two decades getting the telescope off the ground.
But with the completion of that task, the work that the JWST was intended to do — the scientific work — has only just begun.
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