NASA has released high-resolution colour images from the James Webb Space Telescope.
It is the largest and most powerful space telescope ever built and takes pictures in infrared.
Infrared light is radiation given off in form of heat energy.
It can therefore, see farther and the very faintest bits in the photos are images of galaxies as they existed 13.6 billion years ago.
That is the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the early universe ever taken.
Unlike other space telescopes like Hubble, James Webb telescope does not orbit the Earth.
It orbits the Sun 1.5 million kilometres (1 million miles) away from the Earth.
By June, 2022 news came that the telescope was hit by at least 19 small space rocks or micrometeoroids.
One of the rocks caused a noticeable damage on one of the telescopes’ mirrors.
The telescope was built by Northrop Grumman and Ball Aerospace & Technologies with a launch mass of 6,151.4 kg (13,574 lbs) at a cost of $10 billion.
It was launched on 25 December, 2021 from ESA Launch Facility in Kourou, French Guiana.
photo credit: nasa
