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Video by babaktafreshi | From the roof of Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa, let’s fly out to almost five billion light-years away, where a galaxy cluster is revealed by nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope. The image of Webb’s First Deep Field offers the sharpest infrared view of the universe so far. Striking facts: The video begins with a wide-angle view of the sky that I photographed in southern Kenya and has a similar angle to our own eyes’ field of view. Webb’s First Deep Field is several thousand times smaller, “approximately the size of a grain of sand held at arm’s length,” as NASA described it. In my second image, shot using a telephoto lens, the square marking the deep field area in the southern constellation Volans is still extremely small and shows just a blank background when zoomed in. The objects here are barely perceptible and so distant that the field remains blank to a professional telescope. Thousands of galaxies—including the faintest objects ever observed in infrared—app...

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