But if you look very far away, it takes light a long time to reach us because even traveling at the speed of light, we’re talking about billions of light-years of distance. Every time we look out at the universe, we are seeing objects at different distances in the same field of view. The first image is like an emporium of wonders, you could just spend forever just panning and zooming around it and seeing all these crazy shapes and features, as we literally watch galaxies evolve and age and turn into their modern counterparts.Īdams: Explain that a little bit more for me, please, because a lot of people talk about these images as looking back in time. No, that’s a real image.” Because it looks almost like something you create out of.
You had to just keep looking and zooming in and go, “I don’t know. Riess: To be honest with you, it reminded me of a simulation of how good the images should look. Kimberly Adams: What did it feel like looking at that first set of images on Monday and on Tuesday?
This is sort of one of the superpowers, really, of the telescope and of space itself, to allow us to learn about what it’s composed of. And their combined mass is acting like a giant magnifying lens, but a distorted magnifying lens. And they’re relatively in the foreground, they’re only a mere 6 or 7 billion light-years away. So it’s a huge collection of galaxies, almost like a city of galaxies all together. Adam Riess (Courtesy Johns Hopkins University)Īdam Riess: We’re seeing a cluster of galaxies.
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