how the James Webb Space Telescope lets us see the first galaxies in the universe
- Written by Sara Webb, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology
NASA/JWSTIt has been an exciting week with the release of breathtaking photos of our Universe by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Images such as the one below give us a chance to see faint distant galaxies as they were more than 13 billion years ago.
The SMACS 0723 deep field image was taken with only a 12.5-hour exposure. Faint galaxies in...




