Wednesday, January 22, 2025

First image taken by the James Webb Space Telescope is released

James Webb Space Telescope
Photo: NASA

President Joseph Biden presented the image from the James Webb Space Telescope, which, in full color, has captured the highest-resolution images of the infrared universe in history. 

The Webb Space Telescope was launched from French Guiana in December 2021 and is now orbiting the Sun about a thousand miles from Earth.

Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris received a preview of the image during a White House briefing by officials from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which discussed how the groundbreaking images could enable advances in nearly every branch of astronomy.

During the briefing, the President showed p