NASA has shared the five cosmic targets that will be featured in the James Webb Space Telescope's first full-color photos next week. One photo is the deepest view of the universe ever taken.
The space agency says that the five targets listed below represent the first wave of full-color scientific images and spectra that the James Webb Space Telescope has gathered and will mark the official beginning of the observatory’s general science operations.
NASA describes this celestial target as a group of massive foreground galaxies that magnify and distort the light of objects behind them, also known as, which allows telescopes to get an even deeper field view of the extremely distant and therefore faint galaxy populations.
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