Overview

• NASA’s Webb telescope used its Near-Infrared Camera to capture nine snapshots over 120 hours, marking its most focused observation on a single target.
• Abell S1063, a galaxy cluster 4.5 billion light-years away in the Grus constellation, acts as a gravitational lens to magnify background light.
• The new image reveals a dense forest of warped arcs, each tracing faint galaxies formed only a few hundred million years after the Big Bang.
• This effort builds on Hubble’s Frontier Fields work and represents the GLIMPSE survey’s aim to probe the universe’s earliest epochs.
• Scientists plan to analyze these unprecedented details to improve understanding of early galaxy formation and evolution.