If space is really the last frontier as he says Star Trek, today we have had an image of it and the proof that, even at stellar distances, this frontier is a little closer. The American president Joe Biden showed the first color photo captured by the Webb telescope, a 10 billion dollar project of the European space agency and the agencies of the USA, NASA, and Canada. For the American president it is a «new window on our universe».
The diffuse image is the “deepest view of the universe ever captured” according to NASA. In both physical and temporal terms it is the greatest distance that humanity has been able to reach with its tools. The James Webb Space Telescope it is at an observation point one million miles from Earth.
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The photo was chosen to show the capabilities of the new ten billion dollar James Webb Space Telescope. Show the group of galaxies known by the abbreviation SMACS 0723 which is 5 billion light years away. This cluster of galaxies allows us to see more distant stars because it works like a lens thanks to the gravitational force of its mass.
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Source: Vanity Fair
