Photo galaxy farthest distance captured by the US Space Agency’s James Webb Space Telescope (NASA) was released by the President of the United States (US) Joe Biden, Monday (11/7) US time or Tuesday (12/7) WIB.
The photo is the first full color image from Webb, which is also a partnership mission between the European Union Space Agency (ESA) and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA).
“These images will remind the world that America can do great things, and remind the American people and especially children that nothing is beyond our capacity,” Biden said. NASA.
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“We can see possibilities that no one has seen before. We can go to places that no one has been before,” Biden continued.
The first full-color images from the Webb telescope reveal thousands of galaxies, including the faintest objects ever observed using infrared.
“This is not only the first full color image from the James Webb Space Telescope, it is the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe, so far,” said NASA chief Bill Nelson.
The image includes a patch of sky the size of a coffee bean, which is a tiny slice of the size of the vast universe.
The photo shows the SMACS 0723 galaxy cluster as it appeared 4.6 billion years ago. The combined mass of these galaxy clusters acts as a gravitational lens, magnifying galaxies much farther behind.
“Webb is just the beginning of what we can achieve in the future when we work together for the benefit of humanity,” Bill said.
This record-breaking panoramic view of the galaxy features the full set of Webb’s first images, released Tuesday (12/7), and can be watched live on NASA Television.
“Scientists are pleased that Webb is alive and as strong as we hoped, far beyond Hubble, and that he survived all harm to be our golden eye in the sky,” said John Mather, Webb’s senior project scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center at NASA. Greenbelt, Maryland.
For your information, the Webb telescope is the world’s premier space observatory. Webb is expected to solve mysteries in our solar system, look deep into distant worlds around other stars, and investigate the mysterious structure and origins of our universe.
Launching NASA, Webb was launched on December 25, 2021 on an Ariane 5 rocket from Spaceport Europe in French Guiana, South America. Citing the Guardian, the US built the Webb telescope to reach US $ 10 billion or Rp. 149 trillion.
“Webb was able to look into the past shortly after the Big Bang by looking at galaxies very far away. Light had traveled very far from those galaxies to get to us,” Gardner said.
“The Webb telescope is bigger than Hubble so it can see slightly fainter galaxies that are farther away,” he added.
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