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Images From the JWST

On July 11, 2022

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The briefing started almost an hour late.

Apparently @POTUS was late preparing for a trip for, I don't know, president things. #JWST— Katie Mack (@AstroKatie) July 11, 2022

A lot of griping about NASA’s “hold” music that I won’t share. But the briefing has started. Here is the first photo.

We're looking at a cluster of galaxies 5 billion light years away, and images of even more distant galaxies behind it that are distorted and magnified by the gravity of the cluster— Jonathan McDowell (@planet4589) July 11, 2022