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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

The JWST was launched on December 25th 2021 in French Guiana. It is designed to investigate the observation of the first stars, the formation of the first galaxies, and potentially habitable exoplanets using infrared imaging.

Galaxy IC 5332, also known as PGC 7177. It is an intermediate spiral galaxy located approximately 30 million light years away.

Latest Images from JSWT

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope's deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe so far, the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723. SMACS 0723 is 4.6 billion light-years from Earth located in the constellation of Volans

Galaxy cluster SMACS 0723

NASA's James Web Space Telescope's image of Southern Ring Nebula, a dying star located 2,000 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Vela. It is expelling a colorful gas cloud that will eventually expand and fade away into space.

Southern Ring Nebula

MIRI image of Stephan's Quintet, a grouping of five galaxies located in the constellation Pegasus. In this image, the red represents dusty, star-forming regions, as well as extremely distant, early galaxies and galaxies enshrouded in thick dust. Blue point sources show stars or star clusters without dust. Diffuse areas of blue indicate dust that has a significant amount of large hydrocarbon molecules. For small background galaxies scattered throughout the image, the green and yellow colors represent more distant, earlier galaxies that are rich in these hydrocarbons as well.

Stephan’s Quintet

An image created by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope revealing emerging stellar nurseries and individual stars in the Carina Nebula.

Carina Nebula

This mission was made possible by human ingenuity – the incredible NASA Webb team and our international partners at the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency. Webb is just the start of what we can accomplish in the future when we work together for the benefit of humanity.
— Bill Nelson, NASA Administrator