Webb's First Deep Field

The cluster’s light left it 4.6 billion years ago; its gravity bends the light of galaxies far behind it into arcs. Placed at the cluster; the arcs are much farther still.

The picture hangs at that distance facing Earth, as large as it is on the sky; how deep the object is cannot be seen, so it is flat.

Taken by

James Webb Space Telescope

Picture spans

about 3,400,000 ly

From the Sun

5.1 billion light-years

RA / Dec

110.79° / -73.45°

Credit

NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI

SMACS J0723.3–7327, commonly referred to as SMACS 0723, is a galaxy cluster about 4 billion light-years from Earth, within the southern constellation of Volans. It is a patch of sky visible from the Southern Hemisphere on Earth and often observed by the Hubble Space Telescope and other telescopes in search of the deep past.

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