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thousands of galaxies, including the faintest objects ever observed in infrared. The light from the faintest and most distant galaxies in this picture is some 13.1 billions of years old. The telescope’s image of the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 includes thousands of galaxies, including the faintest objects ever observed in infrared. The light from SMACS 0723 in the image below is 4.6 billion years old. Larkin Carey, an optical engineer, examining two test mirror segments for the James Webb Space Telescope’s on a prototype at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., in 2014. This article is orginally published in New York Times.
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