First Image From James Webb Space Telescope
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Plot twist, it's an aerial shot of New York during the New Year's Ball drop.
From NASA:
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has produced the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date. Known as Webb’s First Deep Field, this image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 is overflowing with detail.
Thousands of galaxies – including the faintest objects ever observed in the infrared – have appeared in Webb’s view for the first time. This slice of the vast universe covers a patch of sky approximately the size of a grain of sand held at arm’s length by someone on the ground.
This deep field, taken by Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), is a composite made from images at different wavelengths, totaling 12.5 hours – achieving depths at infrared wavelengths beyond the Hubble Space Telescope’s deepest fields, which took weeks.
The image shows the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 as it appeared 4.6 billion years ago. The combined mass of this galaxy cluster acts as a gravitational lens, magnifying much more distant galaxies behind it. Webb’s NIRCam has brought those distant galaxies into sharp focus – they have tiny, faint structures that have never been seen before, including star clusters and diffuse features. Researchers will soon begin to learn more about the galaxies’ masses, ages, histories, and compositions, as Webb seeks the earliest galaxies in the universe.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has produced the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date. Known as Webb’s First Deep Field, this image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 is overflowing with detail.
Thousands of galaxies – including the faintest objects ever observed in the infrared – have appeared in Webb’s view for the first time. This slice of the vast universe covers a patch of sky approximately the size of a grain of sand held at arm’s length by someone on the ground.
This deep field, taken by Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), is a composite made from images at different wavelengths, totaling 12.5 hours – achieving depths at infrared wavelengths beyond the Hubble Space Telescope’s deepest fields, which took weeks.
The image shows the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 as it appeared 4.6 billion years ago. The combined mass of this galaxy cluster acts as a gravitational lens, magnifying much more distant galaxies behind it. Webb’s NIRCam has brought those distant galaxies into sharp focus – they have tiny, faint structures that have never been seen before, including star clusters and diffuse features. Researchers will soon begin to learn more about the galaxies’ masses, ages, histories, and compositions, as Webb seeks the earliest galaxies in the universe.
While laying down on the concrete, looking up at the cellphones walking past…
I wanna see it get a shot of the Pillars of Creation!
Incredible, and that’s just a warm up (no pun intended).
I remember seeing an article not that many years ago with an image of the first recorded gravitational lens. Now the analysis of lensing in images is a commonly used observational tool. Lensing is easily seen in the image above.
Eventually gravity wave telescopes will improve in resolution as optical instruments have. Then we’ll really be able to peel away dust and obscuration.
I remember seeing an article not that many years ago with an image of the first recorded gravitational lens. Now the analysis of lensing in images is a commonly used observational tool. Lensing is easily seen in the image above.
Eventually gravity wave telescopes will improve in resolution as optical instruments have. Then we’ll really be able to peel away dust and obscuration.
This telescope is amazing. I have been following the mission since the day it was launched. It is amazing that they were able to pull it off with all the single-point failures they had to avoid. I think they still have to declare operational the Coronagraphy on one of the cameras. Everything else is done.
No kidding. Years ago when I read how many actuation sequences there were in the deployment I thought they were doomed to at lest a few failures. I couldn’t believe that the configuration got approved. Must’ve been a really well done test and evaluation program. A huge “Well done!” to those involved.
I wonder how touched up those photos are. Most pictures of space have been liberally colored and jazzed up. Otherwise they would just be a black background with white dots.
It's cool nonetheless.
This is a NASA picture.. Cool, but pure fantasy.
It's cool nonetheless.
This is a NASA picture.. Cool, but pure fantasy.
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Bummer they didn't wipe the Vaseline off of the lens before launching.
Actually, I just read that the "smeared" look to the image is due to light bending around extremely large objects.
Actually, I just read that the "smeared" look to the image is due to light bending around extremely large objects.
Without Vaseline it might not be able to enter a blackhole.
Very impressed with the Deep Field. I'm excited to see the other images later today.
looks like a black tile that got waxed without being cleaned of all the glitter first. In fact I am looking for clumps of hair that you find when someone half asses a floor finish.
