Top Ten Photographs of the James Webb Space Telescope

Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI / Image processing by Joseph DePasquale (STScI), Anton M. Koekemoer (STScI), and Alyssa Pagan (STScI)

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was launched December 25, 2021. About six months later, it started producing some of the best images of our universe. PetaPixel recently published the top ten photographs produced so far: https://petapixel.com/2024/07/20/the-james-webb-space-telescopes-10-best-space-photos-so-far/. The iconic Pillars of Creation is shown above. See the the link above for the other top images.

Also see prior post on the JWST: https://jamesmacmath.blogspot.com/2022/01/number-of-planets-in-universe.html

The specialty of the JWST is imaging in the infrared spectrum. NASA has a good article here: https://webb.nasa.gov/content/science/firstLight.html.