Thursday, 14 July 2022
Not in your neighborhood
198 days since it launched on Christmas Day 2021 and a million miles of
travelling later, the most powerful telescope to ever take flight has returned
its first image.......and it's as ground-breaking and historic as you'd expect.
The first image from the James Webb Space Telescope, revealed its deepest,
sharpest infrared view of the universe to date. The striking image is just the
first of many which are expected to come in the coming days and indeed for the
next 20 years, as the JWST is expected to change and shape much of what we know
and have learnt about space so far. It's overwhelmingly beautiful, knowing that
these images have been in space, on the way to this camera, for over 13 billion
years. These images brings back memories of another iconic deep space photo,
when the Hubble Space Telescope had stared at a seemingly empty patch of sky
for 100 hours back in 1995 and revealed the iconic galaxy-filled photo which
has served as the backdrop to countless documentaries and posters. Now, we
enter a new phase of scientific discovery. It will enhance what we know about
the origins of our universe, our solar system, and possibly life itself. Here's a photo that is billions of miles away!
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