First full-color image from James Webb Space Telescope revealed

Published July 11, 2022 8:56pm ET



President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris unveiled one of the first images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope on Monday, hailed as the “deepest” and sharpest infrared image of the universe ever produced.

The image covers a “patch of sky approximately the size of a grain of sand held at arm’s length by someone on the ground” and shows thousands of galaxies “in a tiny sliver of vast universe,” according to NASA.

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