NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reveals myriad of galaxies | USA TODAY

NASA’s $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope was designed to perceive light from a large swath of the infrared light spectrum.

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The size of a tennis court and three stories high, the Webb is the largest telescope ever sent into space, according to NASA.

The first full-color image released Monday marked the official beginning of Webb’s general science operations. Using infrared wavelengths, Webb Telescope shows thousands of the first stars and galaxies that formed some 13 billion years ago, about 1 billion years after the Big Bang.

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