James Webb Discovers Just a Droplet!

READ MORE: The Heavens Declare the Glory of God

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), is the most sophisticated and complex observatory ever constructed. As light from the earliest stars has been stretched by the expansion of the universe over 13 billion years, we need instruments that work in infrared light, which we can feel as heat, to peer into the beginnings of our universe.

READ MORE: NASA's Webb Delivers Deepest Infrared Image of Universe Yet

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has delivered the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe so far. Webb's First Deep Field is galaxy cluster SMACS 0723, and it is teeming with thousands of galaxies - including the faintest objects ever observed in the infrared. Webb's image is approximately the size of a grain of sand held at arm's length, a tiny sliver of the vast universe.

READ MORE: Webb Telescope | NASA

Webb is orbiting the Sun near the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point (L2), which lies approximately 1.5 million kilometers (1 million miles) from Earth on the far side of Earth from the Sun. In this orbit, Webb can maintain a safe distance from the bright light of the Sun, Earth, and Moon, while also maintaining its position relative to Earth.