NASA. DEEP SPACE. LARGE FORMAT. NASA's Webb telescope delive - Lot 339

NASA. DEEP SPACE. LARGE FORMAT. NASA's Webb telescope delivers the deepest infrared image of the universe to date Take a look at the deepest, sharpest infrared image of the early universe ever taken - all in a day's work for the James Webb Space Telescope. (Literally! Webb was able to capture this image in less than a day, whereas similar deep-field images taken by Hubble can take several weeks). This is the first Webb image released as we begin to #UnfoldTheUniverse: nasa.gov/webbfirstimages/ If you hold a grain of sand at arm's length to the sky, that tiny grain corresponds to the size of Webb's view in this image. Imagine: galaxies galore in a grain, including light from galaxies that have traveled billions of years to us! Why do some of the galaxies in this image appear curved? The combined mass of this galaxy cluster acts as a "gravitational lens", bending light rays from more distant galaxies behind it, and amplifying them. This image is not the most distant we have ever seen. Non-infrared missions such as COBE and WMAP have seen the universe much closer to the Big Bang (around 380,000 years later), when there was only background microwave radiation, but no stars or galaxies yet. The Webb telescope, on the other hand, observes the universe some 100 million years after the Big Bang. The James Webb Space Telescope is the result of an international collaboration between NASA, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency. The Space Telescope Science Institute is the scientific and operational center of the Webb mission. Vintage chromogenic print. Numbering in the margin on the front. Legend on back label. 40.6 x 40.6CM with margins.