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By Vineet Dikshit

The first image of deep space taken by fully working James Webb Space Telescope has been released for the entire world and it is breathtakingly just outstanding.

Imagine pin-pointing to a target size of a needle speck into the darkest corners of sky and you get this image.

Possible only when the tennis court size James Webb Space Telescope can deliver this pic.

Early on Tuesday (IST) 12th of July 2022  when US president Joe Biden released one of the James Webb first images, the space telescope itself was just about 1.5 million kms from the earth i.e. 15,00,000 kilometres.

According to information uploaded on NASA’s website, this first image from James Webb is the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date.

Known as Webb’s First Deep Field, this image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 is overflowing with detail.

Thousands of galaxies – including the faintest objects ever observed in the infrared – have appeared in Webb’s view for the first time.

This slice of the vast universe covers a patch of sky approximately the size of a grain of sand held at arm’s length by someone on the ground.