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Jun 13, 2023 · Last July, the public got a first look at the telescope’s power, when astronomers released one of the first images taken by the observatory, showing a cluster of spinning galaxies, each one captured in spectacular, luminous detail from 4.6 billion light years away.
In astronomy, first light is the first use of a telescope (or, in general, a new instrument) to take an astronomical image after it has been constructed. This is often not the first viewing using the telescope; optical tests will probably have been performed to adjust the components.
Nov 7, 2016 · This was the moment of first light in the universe, between 240,000 and 300,000 years after the Big Bang, known as the Era of Recombination.
Jun 13, 2023 · Last July, the public got a first look at the telescope’s power, when astronomers released one of the first images taken by the observatory, showing a cluster of spinning galaxies, each one captured in spectacular, luminous detail from 4.6 billion light years away.
Nov 24, 2023 · An experiment aboard NASA’s Psyche mission achieved “first light” by sending and receiving its first deep-space laser communications from far beyond the moon.
Jun 22, 2023 · New results from the James Webb Space Telescope find that radiation from ordinary galaxies cleared the primordial haze left over from the Big Bang, allowing the first light to shine through the early universe.
Oct 3, 2023 · Discover how an X-ray telescope has revolutionized astronomy and our understanding of the universe. A scientific and engineering marvel, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has spent two decades (so far) exploring the cosmos unlike any other telescope. What it has found will astound you.
First Light. showcasing first results from the first light in the early universe observed with the James Webb Space Telescope at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, June 12-16, 2023. Continue
Jul 19, 2023 · About 13.8 billion years ago, our universe ballooned outward at an incredible speed. Everything we observe today, which had been packed tightly together, expanded in a roiling mass of light and ...
Feb 12, 2022 · NASA surprised the space community by releasing an early first-light picture from the James Webb Space Telescope. "First light" is a double entendre unique to this unparalleled space...
