NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has produced the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date. Known as Webb’s First Deep Field, this image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 is overflowing with detail.
On Monday, July 11, President Joe Biden released one of the James Webb Space Telescope’s first images in a preview event at the White House in Washington.
Read the NASA press release here.
The full set of the telescope’s first full-color images and spectroscopic data released on July 12, 2022 , are available here.
For a full array of Webb’s first images and spectra, including downloadable files, visit here.
Image: © NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI