The splendors of the universe glowed in a new batch of images released on Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila) from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) powerful new telescope. "It's the beauty, but also the story," Nobel laureate and NASA senior Webb scientist John Mather said after the reveal. With Webb, scientists hope to glimpse light from the first stars and galaxies that formed 13.7 billion years ago, just 100 million years from the universe-creating Big Bang. Webb is considered the successor to the highly successful, but aging Hubble Space Telescope. The world's biggest and most powerful space telescope rocketed away last December from French Guiana in South America.

Source: Manila Times July 13, 2022 12:43 UTC