35 jaw-dropping James Webb Space Telescope images
After two years in space, the world's most powerful telescope has forever changed the way curious Earthlings view the cosmos. The cutting-edge, $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) shared its debut image with the world on July 12, 2022, peering deeper into the universe than any telescope before it. Since then, JWST has captured the mystery and beauty of space in image after dazzling image, both confirming and confounding longstanding theories about how the universe works. Here are 35 of the telescope's finest observations. Related: The James Webb telescope has broken cosmology. Can it be fixed? The Pillars of Creation (Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Joseph DePasquale (STScI), Anton M. Koekemoer (STScI), Alyssa Pagan (STScI).) The towering pillars of creation – a vast span of sculptured gas and dust located about 6,500 light-years from Earth in the Eagle Nebula – have been a famous Milky Way landmark since the Hubble Space Telescope observed...

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