JWST surpasses, enhances Hubble’s deepest image ever

There’s a recipe to <a href="https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/james-webb-first-deep-field/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">seeing farther back in time</a> than ever before. <img alt="" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:630/0*kXA4Vqs9Vs9_e6aU" style="height:700px; width:700px" /> The blank region of sky, shown in the yellow L-shaped box, was the region chosen to be the observing location of the original Hubble Deep Field image. With no known stars or galaxies within it, in a region devoid of gas, dust, or known matter of any type, this was the ideal location to stare into the abyss of the empty Universe. Today, we know of even more pristine regions than we did in the early 1990s. (<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hubble_Deep_Field_location.gif" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Credit</a>: NASA/Digitized Sky Survey; STScI) <a href="https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/jwst-surpasses-enhances-hubbles-deepest-image-ever-3149970852af">Read More</a>