In July of 2022, the first science images from JWST were unveiled. Two years later, it’s changed our view of the Universe.
Although it’s hard to believe, it was only two years ago, in July of 2022, that the very first science images from JWST were unveiled to the world. Showcasing a diversity of views in a whole new light, JWST’s unprecedented combination of:
- a large, cold, infrared-optimized observatory,
- located 1.5 million km away from Earth,
- shielded from the Sun by a novel sunshield,
- and novel instruments spanning the wavelength range from 0.6 to 30 microns,
allowed us to probe the Universe, from our Solar System to the deepest cosmic depths, as never before. Almost instantly, scientists around the world realized that these new capabilities from the most powerful observatory ever launched by humanity had the potential to transform our understanding of the Universe.
Although many of JWST’s images have revealed new features that we’d never seen before — including on planets, within nebulae, around interacting galaxies, and within supernova remnants — the greatest revolutions have come when we had a set of…
