President Joe Biden unveiled this image of galaxy cluster known as Webb’s First Deep Field
The first image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope offered humanity a stunning new view of the universe — a first-of-its-kind infrared image so distant in the cosmos that it shows stars and galaxies as they appeared 13 billion years ago.
The image is filled with galaxies, some more than 13 billion years old, which means they formed just after the Big Bang.
Over the coming days, NASA will publish additional images, to reveal details about the atmosphere of an exoplanet outside our solar system, “stellar nurseries” where stars form, galaxies that interact and trigger star formation and black holes, and a glimpse into how stars die.
President Joe Biden revealed the new image Monday at the White House alongside Vice President Kamala Harris and NASA officials. Biden called it a “new window into the history of our universe.” The image marks the first time human beings have seen a distant galaxy cluster as it appeared more than 4 billion years ago in such vivid detail.
Thousands of engineers and hundreds of scientists worked to make the telescope a reality, along with over 300 universities, organizations, and companies from 29 U.S. states and 14 countries.
