Carina Nebula
A region of the Carina Nebula observed by the James Webb Space Telescope, part of a set of images and spectra released July 12 to show off the capabilities of the telescope.

NASA released the long-anticipated first science observations from the James Webb Space Telescope July 12, the culmination of decades of work and the start of a new era in astrophysics.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...