NASA revealed the first image from James Webb Space Telescope, the highest-resolution infrared vista of the universe ever seen. US President Biden unveiled the first colour image on Monday.

NASA officials announced ahead of the big unveiling that the first “deep field” image from the $10 billion telescope, which is located 1 million miles from Earth, would show the farthest mankind has ever seen in both time and distance.

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The image is densely packed with stars and distant galaxies that arose not long after the Big Bang.

Four more galactic photographs from the telescope, named after former NASA administrator James Webb, will be released on Tuesday, including a view of a massive gaseous planet outside of the solar system, two images of a nebula where stars form and die, and an update to a classic image of five densely clustered galaxies dancing around one another.

The James Webb Space Telescope, the world’s largest and most powerful of its kind, was launched in December from French Guiana in South America and arrived at its destination a month later.

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Scientists intend to use the telescope to see the beginning of the cosmos 13.7 billion years ago — and to zoom in on nearby cosmic objects with finer focus.

NASA’s latest telescope is the heir to the Hubble Space Telescope, which can look back 13.4 billion years.

During a recent media briefing, NASA’s science mission head Thomas Zurbuchen stated that the new telescope is “giving up secrets that had been there for many, many decades, centuries, millennia.”

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“It’s not an image. It’s a new world view that you’re going to see,” he stated.

The Webb telescope is a collaboration between NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Canadian Space Agency.