First image from the Webb Space Telescope: We're seeing possibilities no one has seen before
National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) last night at the White House he presented the first photo taken with the space telescope James Webb for who ce believes it will change the way people see space.
The American president Joe Biden announced the discovery – the deepest view of space ever captured on camera.
The photo shows part of space, a massive group of galaxy cluster SMAX 0723. The gravitational field of the cluster acts as lens with what ce it reveals light from background galaxies that would otherwise be too faint and distant to see ce see In fact, we have the first deep-field view of incredibly old and distant galaxies.
The galaxy cluster pictured in the White House ce appeared 4.6 billion years ago. The universe is 13.7 billion years old, so the Web will have a chance to look even deeper.
The presentation last night was an announcement for the main event planned for this morning, when ce present complete results from the first images with the space telescope launched at a distance of 1,5 million kilometers from Earth.
These images tell the world that America is capable of great deeds, and they tell the American people, especially our children, that our opportunities ce limitless, said Biden.
We see opportunities that no one has seen before. We can go places no one has been before.
Bill Nelson, administrator of NASA, also spoke at the event last night.
This is the deepest image of our universe ever taken, he said.
He said the image presented here covers "a patch of sky about the size of a grain of sand at arm's length."
It is just a small part of the vast universe.
The image was captured by Webb's infrared camera and is a composite of multiple shots with different wavelengths of light taken during 12.5 hours. It took the Hubble Space Telescope weeks to take its deepest-field images from space.
"Web" is about 100 times more sensitive than its predecessor, which ce located at 547 km from Earth.
The Space Telescope and the Mission ce the work of NASA, with the participation of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), as European Space Agency (ESA).
