NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI
From the White House early evening on Monday, President Biden had the privilege of publicly revealing the first full-color image taken by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope—the most powerful observatory ever launched into space.
“Today is a historic day,” President Joe Biden told reporters Monday. “It shows what we can achieve… These images are going to remind the world that America can do big things.”
The new photo is a brilliant snapshot of SMACS 0723, a region of the night sky containing a galaxy cluster so massive that its gravity ends up bending light around it—magnifying and distorting bright objects in the background. SMACS 0723 creates a deep field view of very distant and faint populations of stars and galaxies.
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