We built a telescope that receives messages from 13 billion years ago.
We built a telescope that receives messages from 13 billion years ago. Not a metaphor — a working fact of physics. Light travels fast, but space is vast, so by the time ancient starlight reaches us, it carries a picture of the past. The James Webb Space Telescope is tuned to catch that light — faint infrared signals from galaxies so remote their light set off when the universe was barely getting started. Those galaxies may look completely different today, or may not exist at all. Webb sits about one and a half million kilometres from Earth, kept cold enough to sense that ancient warmth without drowning it in its own heat. Every observation is a genuine dispatch from the early universe, arriving now. Follow Deep Field Vault so you never miss the next transmission.