If you ever want to get a bit of perspective, there’s very little that’s more humbling than a good deep field image – and JWST has just dropped a real showstopper.
In the latest image release, the powerful space telescope gazed back nearly 12 billion light-years into a tiny patch of sky, less than a fifth of the width of the full Moon. That little patch of sky is teeming with glittering lights.
It looks a lot like any patch of the sky seen when you look up from the ground on a cloudless night, with one major, jaw-dropping difference.
Most of the lights in the new JWST-Hubble composite image are not bright stars, but galaxies, stretching back almost as far across space-time as the beginning of the Universe.
Almost Every Speck of Light in This Incredible Image Is a Galaxy https://t.co/a65ptZSvAX
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