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Irish Mirror
Irish Mirror
National
Sophie Collins

Irish start-up worked on NASA's James Webb telescope as 'deepest' images of space released

NASA has today released images from the James Webb Space Telescope marking the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date.

Known as Webb’s First Deep Field, the image released is of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 and its level of detail is breathtaking.

An Irish start-up also had a hand in building the largest and most powerful space observatory in history.

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