The First Light

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Source: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope
Published: July 11, 2022 6:21PM (NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, NIRCam)
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Over 21k videos with 310k+ unique frames were used to generate this image. Hashtags spanning the world were used to create this piece. #love, #music, #universe, #family, #zambia, #copenhagen are just a few of the thousands of hashtags captured within The First Light. The reference image depicts part of the night sky that is approximately "the size of a grain of sand held at arm’s length by someone on the ground and reveals thousands of galaxies in a tiny sliver of the vast universe."
“Infrared light shows the deepest, sharpest view of distant galaxies ever obtained”
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FirstLight Slice 1
Coordinates: x:34575 y:33867

FirstLight Slice 2
Coordinates: x:45775 y:41600

FirstLight Slice 3
Coordinates: x:30442 y:26534

Videos: 21,401 user generated short-form videos
Unique Frames: 310,611
Dimensions: 64,400 x 64,400 | 64k
Project Size: 15.3 GB
File Formats: gif, png, zoomible png
Tags: #Humanity #JWST #JwstArt #FirstLight

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