When Pagan and DePasquale first receive the images, they appear in black and white. The colors are added to the image later, as the data from the various filters are translated into the spectrum of visible light, Pagan explained. The longest wavelengths appear red, while the shorter wavelengths are blue or purple.

The antennas on Earth and James Webb Telescope in space looked at a seemingly empty space in the sky for several hours to catch the signal.

The James Webb Space Telescope identified one of the oldest supernovas, AT 2023adsv, revealing early universe phenomena

"We think every dense, dusty region that we see, and most of the ones we don't see, look like this on the inside — we just have never been able to look inside them before."

The Phantom Galaxy (M74) has been imaged in infrared and optical light using the James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope. The spiral galaxy is about 32 million light-years from Earth. Credit: Space.