Lesson #491

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James Webb telescope’s first photos show us a look back in cosmic time

James Webb space telescope images

NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI, Public Domain

August 4, 2022:

The James Webb Space Telescope launched in December 2021, and just seven months later, it has sent its first images from deep in space back to Earth. This has been a project twenty years in the making, and the telescope will help build a better understanding of the universe, its creation, and what it contains now. Plus, learn “turn over.”

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