Overview

• The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) celebrates its two-year launch anniversary on December 25, 2023, marking a year of significant discoveries and stunning images.
• The JWST has discovered six enormous galaxies dating back to just 500 million years after the Big Bang, challenging our current understanding of galaxy evolution.
• The telescope has also found the oldest black hole in the universe, spotted twice, first 570 million years after the Big Bang and then even earlier, 440 million years after the universe began.
• The JWST has detected potential signs of alien life on a distant watery world, K2-18 b, a sub-Neptune planet orbiting the habitable zone of a red dwarf star.
• The telescope has also captured stunning images of the Orion Nebula, the Ring Nebula, and the IC 348 Star cluster, providing insights into the birth and death of stars.