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A dark background of space has a shining galaxy view in front of it, sort of shaped like a penguin. There's a glowing white orb toward the bottom right, representing the "egg" galaxy.

Galactic penguin honors the 2nd anniversary of James Webb Space Telescope's 1st images

By Robert Lea published

To celebrate the second anniversary of the James Webb Space Telescope's first images, NASA has revealed a cosmic Penguin and Egg.

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A star-studded image with a large pillar of gas and dust rising through the center.

James Webb Space Telescope images: 16 astonishing views of our universe (gallery)

By Daisy Dobrijevic last updated

The James Webb Space Telescope is busy capturing incredible images of our universe. We take a look at some of the best ones here in our gallery.

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A blurry teal colored gas ring in black space features three bright shining orange orbs at its crown. A blue light dimly shines from the ring's center, and a paler small dot also shines on the right side of the image.

The James Webb Space Telescope finds a jeweled ring in the cosmos

By Samantha Mathewson published

A sparkling jeweled ring, created through a cosmic phenomenon called gravitational lensing, has been imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope.

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Two glowing blue arcs joined by a bright red smeared sphere.

Happy 4th of July! Infant star creates red, white and blue fireworks in new JWST image

By Robert Lea published

Just in time for Independence Day, the James Webb Space Telescope has imaged a red, white and blue fireworks display, courtesy of an infant star at the heart of a dense cloud of gas and dust.

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A rectangular image with black vertical rectangles at the bottle left and top right to indicate missing data. A young star-forming region is filled with wispy orange, red, and blue layers of gas and dust. The upper left corner of the image is filled with mostly orange dust, and within that orange dust, there are several small red plumes of gas that extend from the top left to the bottom right, at the same angle. The center of the image is filled with mostly blue gas. At the center, there is one particularly bright star, that has an hourglass shadow above and below it. To the right of that is what looks a vertical eye-shaped crevice with a bright star at the center. The gas to the right of the crevice is a darker orange. Small points of light are sprinkled across the field, brightest sources in the field have extensive eight-pointed diffraction spikes that are characteristic of the Webb Telescope.

James Webb Space Telescope spies never-before-seen star behavior in distant nebula (video, photo)

By Stefanie Waldek published

A new James Webb Space Telescope image shows perfectly aligned protostellar outflows in the Serpens Nebula, supporting a long-running theory of stellar formation.

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an explosion of glue and green gasses with yellow orange fringes expands in the black of space.

Iconic Crab Nebula shines in gorgeous James Webb Space Telescope views (video, image)

By Sharmila Kuthunur published

The famous Crab Nebula gets a closeup from the James Webb Space Telescope.

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Concentric circles of orange and brown with a glowing yellow sphere it their center

James Webb Space Telescope spots asteroid collision in neighboring star system

By Robert Lea published

The James Webb Space Telescope has seen signs of a violent asteroid collision in neighboring star system, Beta Pictoris. The observations could reveal the early stages of planet birth.

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telescope photo showing hundreds of galaxies in deep space

Youthful galaxy in the early universe was a heavy metal rebel

By Keith Cooper published

The existence of carbon in the early universe means that planets and perhaps even life could have formed sooner than anticipated.

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A glowing yellow orb in the center of the screen surrounded a disk of gassy material.

Rocky, carbon-rich exoplanets more likely around tiny stars, James Webb Space Telescope reveals

By Robert Lea published

Astronomers using the JWST have discovered tiny stars may be better suited at birthing small, rocky planets with atmospheres dominated by carbon.

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JADES-GS-z14-0 the earliest and most distant galaxy ever seen by humanity in a NIRCam image captured by the JWST

James Webb Space Telescope spots the most distant galaxy ever seen (image)

By Robert Lea published

The most distant JADES-GS-z14-0 is a massive and bright galactic record breaker that existed just 300 million years after the Big Bang.

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