James Webb Space Telescope

Context

NASA has unveiled images from the James Webb Space Telescope, the largest and most powerful orbital observatory ever launched.

About ?? the image 

• NASA released a deep field photo of a distant galaxy cluster, SMACS 0723, revealing the most detailed glimpse of the early universe recorded to date.
• The collection also included fresh images of another galaxy cluster known as Stephan’s Quintet, first discovered in 1877.
  
  

About James Webb Telescope

• James Webb Telescope is an international collaboration between NASA, European Space Agency (ESA), and the Canadian Space Agency.
• It is the most powerful space telescope ever built.
• The telescope will complement and is considered the successor of the Hubble Space Telescope.
• The telescope will use infrared light, which cannot be perceived by the human eye, to study every phase in cosmic history.
• It would help understand events such as the formation of the first galaxies, and detailed atmospheric characterization of potentially habitable exoplanets.