It really is a big deal. Humankind has never seen the cosmos like this; even the scientists responsible are surprised by just how great the results have been.
The pictures depict dazzling stars sprinkled across sections of space and time never previously encountered. Gas and dust being blasted about in the wake of furious cosmic collisions - majestic colours and swirling shapes representing galaxies unfurling, folding, merging and warping. They’re of light that’s so old and faraway, it’s now invisible, having been emitted as much as 13.1 billion years ago, not too long after the Big Bang.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a partnership with the European Space Agency and Canadian Space Agency, began producing these images of deep space - the universe in its infancy - in July. The colour visualisations are composited from spectroscopic data being gathered from
