James Webb telescope takes 'deepest ever' view of the cosmos
The $10bn James Webb Space Telescope ,, is billed as the successor to the famous Hubble Space Telescope.
What you see is a cluster of galaxies in the Southern Hemisphere constellation of Volans known by the ungainly name of SMACS 0723. And it's even better than that. Scientists can tell from the quality of the data produced by Webb that the telescope is sensing space way beyond the most far-flung object in this image.Media caption,"Light travels at 186,000 miles per second. And that light that you are seeing on one of those little specks has been travelling for over 13 billion years," said Nasa administrator Bill Nelson.
Nasa and its international partners, the European and Canadian space agencies, will release further colour imagery from Webb on Tuesday. WASP-96 b orbits far too close to its parent star to sustain life. But, one day, it's hoped Webb might spy a planet that has gases in its air that are similar to those that shroud the Earth - a tantalising prospect that might hint at the presence of biology."I have seen the first images and they are spectacular," deputy project scientist Dr Amber Straughn said of Tuesday's further release.
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