When Neil Armstrong walked to the moon in 1969, the world held its breath. We have now emblazoned ourselves with these scientific advances.
The southern ring nebula photographed by the JWST (Image: NASA, ESA, CSA and STScI)
Five centuries ago, Copernicus concluded that the earth revolves around the sun. Five decades ago, humans first walked on the moon. Ten years ago, Voyager 1 entered interstellar space, becoming the first spacecraft to leave our solar system.
To this catalog of scientific leaps we can now add the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). At the White House last Monday, President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and NASA Administrator Bill Nelson unveiled the first image of JWST to a waiting world.
Full-color printing captures thousands of galaxies in a single frame. No stars. Galaxies. The main cluster is 4.6 billion light-years away, with many more distant than that. Humans have never seen anything like it.
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