Webb First Anniversary: One Year of Exploring the Early Universe

In July 2022, Webb’s first full color images and spectra of colliding galaxies, dying stars, stellar nurseries, planetary atmospheres, and galactic light—stretched and distorted on a 13-billion-year journey across space—were released to the world, marking the official launch of Webb’s science mission.

What is Webb revealing about the first galaxies to light up the universe?

Dan Coe and Macarena Garcia Marin from the Space Telescope Science Institute, John Mather from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Rachel Bezanson from the University of Pittsburgh, Margaret Meixner from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Rebecca Larson from the Rochester Institute of Technology provide some insights from the first year of Webb science.