Launched one year ago, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has brought us images of the universe never seen before. Situated far past the moon, the space telescope collects infrared information with great sharpness from the earliest times of the universe, around 14 billion years ago. A countdown of 10 remarkable images produced via the JWST includes:
- Stephan's Quintet (pictured above), a set of colliding galaxies.
- The Pillars of Creation, a stellar nursery in the Eagle Nebula, seen with intriguing new aspects not previously imaged by Hubble.
- The 'Hourglass' Protostar, a cloud of dust and gas in the Milky Way in the process of gathering enough mass to start fusion and become a star.
- Jupiter in infrared, including auroral glows at its poles.
- The Phantom Galaxy, composite images of visible light from Hubble & infrared from JWST that reveals new details.