SMACS 0723: The red curved lights in the image are light from the Lagna galaxy, the very beginning of the universe.
This telescope was able to capture the curved shape of the galaxy. These galaxies lasted only 600 million years after the Big Bang.
The age of the universe is said to be 13.8 billion years.
James Webb space telescope released full color and stunning pictures of the universe several billion years ago?
This is the most detailed picture yet of the earliest state of the universe. The scattering of light from the constellations and galaxies seen in this image has reached us over hundreds of billions of years.
This photo was shown to ( US ) President Joe Biden during a briefing at the White House.
More never-before-seen images taken by the James Webb Telescope will be released to the world by N-A-S-A next Tuesday.
This billion dollar James Webb Space Telescope was launched on December 25 last year. The James Webb Telescope is designed to replace the well-known Hubble telescope in space.
This telescope will observe many things in the sky. But it has two main goals. One is to photograph how the light scattering of the very first stars born in space 13.5 billion years ago; And the second is to investigate whether distant planets are habitable.
James Webb's image released by N-A-S-A to President Biden shows the telescope capable of achieving the first target.
The image you see is a cluster of galaxies in the southern hemisphere - the Volans constellation - named SMACS 0723.
This constellation is actually not that far away - "only" about four and a half billion light years away. But its mass is bent in such a way that the dispersion of its light is spread over a much wider range, over much longer distances.
Image of the speed of evening light of stars brighter than the sun?
Now, the even bigger news is that scientists analyzing the quality of data from the Webb Telescope are realizing that the telescope is capable of imaging the cosmos much deeper than what is seen in this image.
As a result, it will now be possible to see and collect data far into space with these powerful telescopes.
"The speed of light is 186,000 miles per second. And the little scattering of light that you see in this picture has traveled 13 billion years," says NASA researcher Bill Nelson.
"But we're going back even further. Because this is the first picture. They're going to take pictures back 13.5 billion years. Since we know the universe is 13.8 billion years old, we can go back to the very beginning of the universe."
The Hubble telescope had to observe the sky for weeks to collect such data. But the James Webb Telescope captured this image from the depths of the universe in just 12 and a half hours of observation.
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