The image shared by NASA on Twitter and posted Monday, July 11, 2022, by President Joe Biden as the first “deepest, sharpest infrared image of the early universe” captured by the James Webb Space Telescope is authentic. Contrary to what circulated on this social network, where it was said that it could have been intervened or recreated with Photoshop, a spokesperson for the ESA, who, together with the CSA and the North American agency, are doing advance the mission of this instrument, stated that all images released by these institutions as taken by the Webb are real and that it is nearly impossible to tamper with the images generated by this telescope. The photo shows what galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 looked like 4.6 billion years ago, which is the same piece of sky captured in 1995 by the Hubble Telescope, but they differ markedly in image quality , light and details. Additionally, we verified through a reverse search on TinEye that the first image of Webb was shared as such through means such as New York Times Yes NPR before or after its distribution by the organizations in charge of this mission. Read here how we choose and assign our labels in the Detector.
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