Meet our current record holder for farthest galaxy ever seen (so far!!)

MoM-z14 may look like an unimpressive little yellow smudge here, but it's our first view of a galaxy that existed just 280 million years after the big bang and lies over 13.5 billion light years away from here.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/55065929901/in/album-72177720331299130

Webb captured a new close-up of an old favorite, the Helix Nebula. We’ve seen this region before with telescopes like Hubble and the retired Spitzer Space Telescope, but Webb zooms into this dying star with a deeper, more detailed view.

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/webb/multimedia/images/#Engineering-And-Test-Images

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has provided the first direct measurements of the chemical and physical properties of a potential moon-forming disk encircling a large exoplanet. The carbon-rich disk surrounding the world called CT Cha b, which is located 625 light-years away from Earth, is a possible construction yard for moons, although no moons are detected in the Webb data.

https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasas-webb-telescope-studies-moon-forming-disk-around-massive-planet/

Webb brings cosmic lenses into focus Nature’s magnifying glass 🔎

Galaxies in these images might look stretched or warped. That’s due to gravitational lensing, a tool that allows us to peer even further into the universe!

Gravitational lensing occurs because the gravity of massive objects like galaxies and galaxy clusters can warp the fabric of spacetime, bending the path of light around the object. When a massive foreground object lines up with a background galaxy, the light from the background galaxy bends on its way to our telescopes.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/54822781985/in/album-72177720323168468

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a colorful array of massive stars and glowing cosmic dust in the Sagittarius B2 molecular cloud, the most massive and active star-forming region in our Milky Way galaxy.

A blowtorch of seething gasses erupting from a volcanically growing monster star has been captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Stretching across 8 light-years, the length of the stellar eruption is approximately twice the distance between our Sun and the next nearest stars, the Alpha Centauri system. The size and strength of this particular stellar jet, located in a nebula known as Sharpless 2-284 (Sh2-284 for short), qualifies it as rare, say researchers.