Well here it is. The first full color infrared image released from the James Webb telescope. And it’s awesome! This is a region of the sky that represents an area the size of a grain of sand held at arm’s length.
Each of those colorful ellipses and oblong objects are distant galaxies. Only the bright objects with the diffraction spikes are local stars from our own galaxy. And the curved sections around the middle is a even more distant galaxy whose light is being gravitationally bent by a foreground galaxy allowing it's faint light to be magnified and made visible.
Wow - can't wait for more - and there is more to come for sure!
Full details can be read at NASA and here at SkyandRockets.
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