At last, the observatory makes good on its promise.
After years of turmoil, JWST finally launched on Christmas Day last year, surviving its trip into space. It then underwent a two-week unfurling process, a nail-biting operation filled with hundreds of moving parts and single-point failures that could have ended the mission had they not worked as planned.
of even more distant galaxies behind the clusters. There are thousands of galaxies in this picture alone, and the light from some has traveled 13 billion years to reach the telescope’s mirror, according to Nelson. “That light that you’re seeing on one of those little specks has been traveling for over 13 billion years,” Nelson said, referring to the tiny galaxies in the image.
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