It's so very lonely, when you're 13 Billion Light Years From Home.
NASA has
the first image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. The image ‘is the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date,’ according to NASA, and is officially known as ‘Webb’s First Deep Field.’
The image, captured with Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), shows off galaxy cluster SMACS 0723. The composite took roughly 12.5 hours to capture and is made from images captured at different wavelengths. In it, we see thousands of galaxies, some of which are distorted due to other galaxies acting as a
by magnifying and warping the light emitting from the galaxies behind them. The image shows SMACS 0723 as it appeared roughly 4.6 billion years ago.