There's more to Webb than just beautiful images. It is a particularly powerful source for studying planets that orbit around other stars. For some of these, Webb has purely detected their atmospheric constituents, demonstrating its unmatched ability to explore atmospheres hundreds of light-years away.

What questions will the James Webb Space Telescope answer along the way? What cosmic mysteries will it uncover as it continues its journey peering deep into our universe? We anticipate more full-color scientific images from the James Webb telescope, which has infrared frequencies that are not visible to the human eye but are extremely rich in information about the building blocks of life elsewhere in the universe.