NASA hits huge milestone as £8.4bn James Webb Telescope captures oldest known galaxies

The JADES program began with NIRCam, and used over 10 days of mission time to study the field in nine different infrared colours, which resulted in exquisite images of the sky. 

The region is 15 times larger than the deepest infrared images produced by the Hubble Space Telescope, yet is even deeper and sharper at these wavelengths, NASA said.

The image is only the size a human appears when viewed from a mile away. However, it teems with nearly 100,000 galaxies, each caught at some moment in their history, billions of years in the past.

Co-author Brant Robertson from the University of California, Santa Cruz, a member of the NIRCam science team said: “For the first time, we have discovered galaxies only 350 million years after the big bang, and we can be absolutely confident of their fantastic distances. To find these early galaxies in such stunningly beautiful images is a special experience.”

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