US President Joe Biden on Monday 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.
US President Joe Biden applauds upon seeing the first images from the Webb Space Telescope during a briefing from National Aeronautics and Space Administration officials at the White House in Washington, US, July 11, 2022. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
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. He was joined at the Old Executive Office Building of the White House complex by Vice President Kamala Harris, who chairs the US National Space Council.On Friday, the space agency posted a list of five celestial subjects chosen for its showcase debut of Webb. These include SMACS 0723, a bejeweled-like sliver of the distant cosmos that according to NASA offers "the most detailed view of the early universe to date.
The highly anticipated release of its first imagery follows six months of remotely unfurling Webb's various components, aligning its mirrors and calibrating instruments. The much larger light-collecting surface of Webb's primary mirror — an array of 18 hexagonal segments of gold-coated beryllium metal — enables it to observe objects at greater distances, thus further back in time, than Hubble or any other telescope.
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