# @nasa on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DKzmIWWNCd1
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/31321320-nasa-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-06-12T15:43:13.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

Peering into the past⁣
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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!⁣
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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.⁣
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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 around it. Also around it are short, curved, glowing red lines, which are images of distant background galaxies magnified and warped by gravitational lensing. A couple of foreground stars appear large and bright with long, blue spikes around them.⁣
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Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, H. Atek, M. Zamani (ESA/Webb); Acknowledgement: R. Endsley⁣
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#NASA #JamesWebbSpaceTelescope #Galaxy #Trippy #Space

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