Webb snaps 45,000 galaxies in one frame while time-traveling to the universe’s origin 2023
In what may be one of the most incredible images ever acquired by the James Webb Space Telescope, the world's most powerful observatory has surveyed a patch of sky and discovered a galaxy-packed star factory.
The image obtained as part of the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey program depicts a portion of the GOODS-South region of the sky, which contains over 45,000 galaxies per frame. The Hubble telescope has also previously observed this region of the heavens.
The JADES program will dedicate approximately 32 days of telescope time to discovering and characterizing dim, faraway galaxies as astronomers attempt to comprehend their nature. How did the first nebulae and stars originate?
The researchers studied 500–850 million-year-old galaxies.
"With JADES, we hope to re...