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The inconspicuous blob is an ancient, unnamed galaxy that is 13.1 billion years old - only several hundred million years younger than the birth of the universe.
At a special preview event at the White House on 11 July, President Joe Biden unveiled the first full-colour, scientific images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. The infrared image shows galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 located about 4.6 billion ligh
Webb's primary mirror was permanently altered when it was impacted by a single micrometeorite, the US space agency revealed, although it won't affect the telescope's ability to take mesmerising images.
The James Webb Space Telescope, which has wowed the world with gorgeous images, stores its data on a relatively small 68 GB drive - that's enough to hold only a day's worth of images.
Dr. Chris Willott's elation at seeing the first image from the James Webb Space Telescope — which showed a cluster of hundreds of galaxies in deep space — was a culmination of 16 years working on the project.