
NASA's $10 billion telescope delivers first-ever images from space. The telescope was launched into space to watch the dawn of the universe and capture what happened just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang.
Its first science-quality photos will be released on July 12, but the US space agency has provided a photo of the engineering test as a sneak peek. The image shows a cluster of distant stars and galaxies.
It has some "rough around the edges" qualities, NASA said in a statement, but it is still "among the deepest images of the universe ever taken" and offers a "surprising glimpse" of what will be revealed in the weeks, months ahead. and years after.
"When this photo was taken, I was thrilled to see so clearly all the detailed structure in these faint galaxies," said Neil Rowlands, scientist at Honeywell Aerospace.
NASA added that it will be "a unique moment for all of us to stop and marvel at a sight that mankind has never seen before".
