IN PICTURE. With this special image, the James Webb space telescope celebrates its first birthday

From our cosmic solar system backyard to distant galaxies from the dawn of time, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has delivered on its promise to reveal the universe like never before during its first year as a space telescope. To celebrate, JWST captured an image of a star-forming region in the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex. Although it could just as well have been an impressionistic painting.

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