NASA releases first image captured by Webb telescope

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US President Joe Biden on Monday unveiled the first full-color photo from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, which showed the most detailed image of the early universe ever seen.

The photo showcased by Biden and NASA chief Bill Nelson showed the 4.6 billion-year-old galaxy cluster named SMACS 0723, Reuters reported. Its combined mass acts as a "gravitational lens," distorting space to greatly magnify the light coming from more distant galaxies behind it.

According to Nelson, at least one of the faint, older specs of light pictured in the "background" of the photo dates back over 13 billion years, which makes it 800 million years younger than the Big Bang that set the expansion of the known universe in motion.

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If you believe in G-d, then this is a light towards the beginning of Creation. The very beginning.

steve.