New Delhi: Google Doodle on July 13 shows pictures taken by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and an animated James Webb telescope taking pictures. The telescope was launched on 25 December 2021 and NASA shared the first operational images taken by the space telescope on July 13.

Google is celebrating the first images shared by JWST and has shared an animated illustration of the space telescope in its Google Doodle. The doodle portrays the telescope and the gold-coated, flower-shaped mirror of the telescope resting at the top of it. It also shows the picture of the Deep Field which illuminated thousands of galaxies and the fainted objects clicked by the space telescope.

Are we alone in the universe? How’d we get here?

The first images from the James Webb Space Telescope help us #UnfoldTheUniverse & answer the questions above ?

Today’s #GoogleDoodle celebrates the deepest infrared photo of the universe ever taken → https://t.co/pMopFK62KE pic.twitter.com/CIuvEiBT1z

— Google Doodles (@GoogleDoodles) July 12, 2022

About the telescope

The James Webb Space Telescope is an infrared observatory that is created to complement and extend the discoveries of the Hubble Space Telescope. JWST has a longer wavelength coverage and greatly improved sensitivity as compared to Hubble. The telescope is named after NASA’s second administrator James E. Webb, who led the Apollo mission that made the first human to land on Moon.

The space telescope was launched from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana. Ariane 5 ECA rocket was used to launch the telescope, and it took a month to reach its orbit, which is 1.5 million kilometres away from Earth.

“This is the oldest documented light in the history of the universe from 13 billion, let me say that again 13 billion, years ago… We can see possibilities no one has ever seen before. We can go places no one has ever gone before,” US President Joe Biden said at the White House while unveiling the first images taken by JWST.