After nearly half a year of launch, the James Webb space telescope finally managed to take its first picture. The picture below is shown by NASA as the earliest preview picture before will share more pictures that were successfully taken in the next few days.
The part of the space named SMACS0723 is only the size of a grain of sand placed on the tip of a hand. The image now dubbed Webb’s First Deep Field shows thousands of galaxies that exist in space in this small sector.
To take Webb’s First Deep Field the telescope’s infrared camera took several pictures within 12.5 hours before they were combined into one composite image. With higher -resolution and brighter images than the Hubble telescope, scientists can see more clearly the outer space that is still littered with mysteries.
Tags
SCIENCES