Webb's First Deep Field
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title:
Webb's First Deep Field
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Webb's First Deep Field is the first operational image taken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The deep-field photograph, which covers a tiny area of sky visible from the Southern Hemisphere, is centered on SMACS 0723, a galaxy cluster in the constellation of Volans. Thousands of galaxies are visible in the image, some as old as 13 billion years. It is the highest-resolution image of the early universe ever taken. Captured by the telescope's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), the image was r
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First operational image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webb%27s_First_Deep_Field
date created:
2022-07-11T23:57:15Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T17:48:20Z
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