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From the roof of Africa, Mt Kilimanjaro, let’s fly out to almost 5 billion light years away, where a galaxy cluster is revealed by @nasawebb in its first Deep Field image; the sharpest infrared image of the universe so far. This is only the beginning for a revolutionary space telescope, placed a million miles away from Earth. Music by composer @barbadbayat. Mind-blowing facts: the video begins with a wide angle lens similar to our eyes field of view. The Webb Deep Field is several thousand times smaller; the angular size of a grain of sand held at arm’s length. In my second image, using a telephoto lens, the tiny square marking the deep field area in the southern constellation Volans, shows just a blank background. It would be blank even to a professional telescope. Thousands of galaxies - including the faintest objects ever observed in the infrared - appears in this 12-hour total exposure by Webb. The galaxy cluster is SMACS 0723. Its light belongs to 4.6 billion years ago when Earth was just about to form. The combined mass of this galaxy cluster acts as a gravitational lens, magnifying much more distant galaxies behind it and distort their image to extended arcs. #astronomy #nasawebb #kilimanjaro @nasa @twanight