Bay Area built: How our camera captured Webb Space Telescope’s famed first images

Bay Area built: How our camera captured Webb Space Telescope’s famed first images

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https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2022/07/12/bay-area-built-how-our-camera-captured-webb-space-telescopes-famed-first-images/

In a triumphant technological tour de force, a Bay Area-built camera the size of a coffee table is sending home snapshots of our infant universe from the James Webb Space Telescope, ushering in a new era of astronomical exploration.

As the world waited in suspense on Tuesday morning, its photos popped into view — luminous 150-million pixel images of a time long before we existed, when stars and galaxies first emerged from the primordial fog almost 14 billion years ago.