In the month the Webb Space Telescope has been up and running, one stellar image after the next has been released to the public, showing the furthest reaches of space to anyone curious. Just this week, a dynamite snapshot of Jupiter plus its rings and moons went viral. Now, a group of researchers has captured the largest image the telescope has taken. Using 690 frames taken from the observatory’s Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam), a behemoth of an image has been created and released to the public.
I have been waiting so long to share this, and it is finally time! Do you want to see THE BIGGEST IMAGE #JWST has taken of galaxies so far?! Our color mosaic image from @ceers_jwst is ready, and there are SO MANY GALAXIES in it! Download it here & ZOOM IN https://t.co/DJcBu8DMFl pic.twitter.com/7mhRntpXOY
P.S. This is JUST Epoch 1 of our @ceers_jwst observations (our mosaic = purple squares on the right). We are less than halfway through our full survey, and already our data have led to new discoveries and an unexpected, but not unwelcome, abundance of never-before-seen galaxies. pic.twitter.com/odv4kHb7so
