The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) with its partners from the European Space Agency ESA and Canada’s CSA has published the first full-color shot taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. It is the deepest look into space to date, capturing light from galaxies billions of years ago, the British BBC reports on its website.
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The image, released during a White House briefing, shows a large number of stars, with massive galaxies in the foreground and other extremely distant galaxies spread across the image. It captures light from not long after the Big Bang, which occurred 13.8 billion years ago.
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“We’re going to bring humanity a new view of space, and it’s a view that we’ve never seen before,” NASA chief Bill Nelson told reporters last month.
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Today, NASA will release four more images from the James Webb Space Telescope. For example, it will be images of the nebula, where stars are born and disappear, writes the AP agency.
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The James Webb space telescope, worth 10 billion dollars (245 billion crowns), is a project of the American NASA with wider international participation, including the Czech Republic. The telescope was launched into space last December 25 by an Ariane 5 rocket from the Kourou Cosmodrome in French Guiana. It is the most powerful space telescope to date. The Webb Observatory should allow scientists to explore the history of the cosmos in the deepest depths of time and space, as well as search for signs of possible life outside the Solar System.
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