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The release of an unprecedented series of images from the far reaches of outer space began Monday with the release of the first image from the James Webb Space Telescope.
“We’re going to give humanity a new view of the cosmos,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson has said, according to PBS. “And it’s a view that we’ve never seen before.”
The image released Monday includes stars, with massive galaxies as well as distant ones.
“Webb can see backwards in time to just after the Big Bang by looking for galaxies that are so far away that the light has taken many billions of years to get from those galaxies to our telescopes,” Jonathan Gardner, Webb’s deputy project scientist, said.
