Peering into the past⁣ ⁣ It took 120 hours of observation time from NASAWebb to capture this deep field image – and it’s Webb’s deepest look back on a single target to date. There are galaxies in this view that may have existed as early as 200 million years after the big bang!⁣ ⁣ This long exposure of a single area of the sky collected as much light as possible, drawing out the most faint and distant galaxies. This observation was also helped by gravitational lensing: a phenomenon that happens when a massive object (in this case, the galaxy cluster in the foreground) warps space and time, causing light to bend, distort, and magnify as it passes around the massive object. As a result, the images are bright and magnified enough to be studied, despite being distorted.⁣ ⁣ Image Description: A field of red and white galaxies in the darkness of space. At the center is a bright white elliptical galaxy that is the core of a massive galaxy cluster. Many other elliptical galaxies can be seen ...