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This side-by-side comparison shows observations of the Southern Ring Nebula in near-infrared light, at left, and mid-infrared light, at right, from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.

Stephan’s Quintet, a visual grouping of five galaxies, is shown in JWST’s largest image yet. It contains more than 150 million pixels and is constructed from almost a thousand separate image files. This new view is providing insights into how galactic interactions may have driven galaxy evolution in the early universe.

This view of the Carina Nebula evokes landscape scenes of mountains and valleys speckled with glittering stars. The image reveals the edge of a nearby star-forming region called NGC 3324, captured in infrared light by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, showing for the first time previously invisible areas of star birth.

The first deep-field image taken by the James Webb Space Telescope shows galaxies from the early universe, magnified by a galactic cluster in the foreground.