WASHINGTON, July 12 — US President Joe Biden, pausing from political pressures to bask in the glow of the cosmos, yesterday released the debut photo from Nasa’s James Webb...
WASHINGTON, July 12 — US President Joe Biden, pausing from political pressures to bask in the glow of the cosmos, yesterday released the debut photo from Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope — an image of a galaxy cluster revealing the most detailed glimpse of the early universe ever seen.
The image showcased by Biden and Nasa chief Bill Nelson showed the 4.6 billion-year-old galaxy cluster named SMACS 0723, whose combined mass acts as a “gravitational lens,” distorting space to greatly magnify the light coming from more distant galaxies behind it. The thousands of galaxies were captured in a tiny patch of the sky roughly the size of a grain of sand held at arm’s length by someone standing on Earth, Nelson said.
With Webb now finely tuned and fully focused, scientists will embark on a competitively selected list of missions exploring the evolution of galaxies, the life cycles of stars, the atmospheres of distant exoplanets and the moons of our outer solar system.
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