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What did the first JWST images reveal?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The New Deep Field

The deep field is just when you point the telescope at a part of the sky where you think there's like, nothing. This is made famous by hubble when they pointed it for like a few weeks at a spot in the sky where they couldn't see anything. When they looked at it, they saw so many galaxies, galaxies that were too faint, too distant for them to see before. Now james webb can do the same kind of thing, but because it's so much more sensitive, and because it sees in the ir it can see even deeper, even fainter galaxies more easily rited.

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