Science James Webb Space Telescope's First Deep Field Image

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See the Oldest View of Our Known Universe, Just Revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope

Decades of work, $10 billion in spending and nearly 14 billion years of cosmic history have brought us to this moment: the first science from the largest and most powerful observatory ever built.

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The image shows a galaxy cluster in the sky of the Southern Hemisphere as it appeared 4.6 billion years ago. It's the oldest and highest resolution picture of the cosmos so far.

 

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Explore JWST’s first image in full resolution!

Pan and zoom into the new image on a sky map using AAS WorldWide Telescope.

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Adds context to how significant this image is despite being a tiny fraction of a fraction of the night sky

 

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It looks a lot like images taken by hubble.

Only better.

 

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It's intended to be an upgrade to Hubble, so yeah. It took this picture in a matter of hours, whereas Hubble's deep field images took days/weeks.

It can see back further than the Hubble can as well, to about 100-250 million years after the big bang, 13.7 billion light years away.

This is a good article comparing their images

Here’s how the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope stack up to Hubble’s epic shots

From deep views of the Universe to detritus of dead stars.

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