Overview

• The NIRCam instrument captured nine separate near-infrared exposures over 120 hours to construct a single deep-field image.
• Abell S1063, a cluster 4.5 billion light-years away in the Grus constellation, bends and magnifies light from background galaxies.
• Combined data represent Webb’s longest continuous deep-field observation of a single target to date.
• The resulting image reveals a forest of warped lensing arcs and scores of faint galaxies formed within the universe’s first million years.
• This observation builds on Hubble’s Frontier Fields work and advances the GLIMPSE program’s mission to study the universe’s first galaxies.