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Yes. The first images from the James
Webb Space Telescope

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are designed to demonstrate the full range
of the capabilities of the telescope.

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So we have everything from the deepest
infrared image of the universe so far,

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a stellar nursery, a star dying,
and the spectrum of an atmosphere

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of an exoplanet
or a planet orbiting another star.

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So the deep field images
looking into the farthest,

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deepest image, infrared image
we have of the universe so far.

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What you see in the foreground
are some star at some nearby stars.

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So the things that are really pointy
are nearby stars.

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The colors further back are galaxies
that are far away,

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and some of them are even bent
and stretched because of that.

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The amount of time
and the gravitational fields.

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Yeah.

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So the Southern

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Ring Nebula, it's a it's a dying star
and it's a cloud of gas that surrounds it.

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So stars have an evolution and a lifetime.

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So they're, you know,
they're they're formed.

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Like, what we see in the Carina

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Nebula is an area stellar nursery,
an area of star formation.

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And as they work through their lifecycle,
then they start to run out of fuel.

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They die and they have a cloud of gas
that surrounds them.

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And that's
what we're seeing in the southern ring.

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This is a set of galaxies
that are sort of locked in a cosmic dance.

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And so they're moving.

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And there two of them are merging
and we can see all of them

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moving around in
that and their interactions.

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The Carina

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Nebula is a stellar nursery,
so this is a place where stars form.

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And we've seen images of this from Hubble.

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And if you look at the Hubble versus
the James Webb Space Telescope,

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you can see how much more detail and high
resolution we got with the new telescope.

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In addition to seeing new things
that we couldn't see before.

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So this
we can see the end of the composition

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of the atmosphere, an exoplanet.

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So what it's made of and the specific
planet we're looking at is hot.

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And so what we see in that
is that there's water there

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and it wouldn't be in liquid form
because of the planet type.

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So it'd be more like steam
that's around it.

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But we can tell what's in that atmosphere.

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Sure.

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So infrared
is a longer wavelength, invisible light.

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So we can't see infrared.

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But James Webb can.

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And what's important about an infrared
telescope is it allows us to see through

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clouds of gas and dust and see the planets
and stars and galaxies that are beyond.

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In addition, James
Webb has a larger mirror than Hubble,

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so it can see back further in time,
and it's orbiting

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at a different point.

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Well, it's going to allow us to understand

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every phase of cosmic history
for the last 13 and a half billion years.

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So we would answer questions like,
how are galaxies formed

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and where do we fit into the cosmos?

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We'll be able
to see the formation of stars and planets.

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We'll also be able
to understand atmospheres of exoplanets.

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I'm excited about all of it.

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When I look at those images, I see, you
know, they are so beautiful and inspiring.

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And I have a lot of questions

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and I'm also I'm an earth scientist,

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so I'm really interested in atmospheres
of other planets, but I'm also interested

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in what we can learn
from some of those other images.

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So we have everything on our website.

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NASA's website so jwst.nasa.gov.