Nearly seven months after leaving Earth and traveling a million miles to its orbital home, the James Webb Space Telescope is sending back its first images from deep space. The photographs, captured by the on-board released today point to
The $10-billion observatory was designed to perceive light from a large swath of the infrared light spectrum. The Webb's infrared capabilities will help astronomers peer into star-forming dust clouds and collect ancient, faint heat from galaxies that formed 100 million years after the Big Bang.
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