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NASA released the first science-quality image taken by the James Webb Space Telescope on Monday (July 11) during an event at the White House hosted by President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.
The image, dubbed Webb’s First Deep Field, is the deepest infrared view of the universe to date, making use of both JWST’s powerful optics and the technique of gravitational lensing to see the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 as it looked 4.6 billion years ago, according to a NASA statement(opens in new tab).
Webb’s First Deep Field was captured by the observatory’s Near-Infrared Camera, or NIRCam, which was the final instrument on the telescope to be approved for full science operations.
