Amazing images from the James Webb telescope

Practical astronomy, the sort where you get your first 3 inch Tasco refracting telescope and spend many a freezing night in the local park (over the fence with your mates) away from light pollution, was a hobby of mine until a telescope upgrade was stymied by a lack of cash. I lost interest then as I was seeing nothing new, though my first ever sighting of Saturn with "open" rings (at that time), the blinding intensity of a full moon and the frisson of excitement waiting for planets or a binary to be found, I will never forget

Back to today, 50 years later and astronomy and cosmology have evolved to a bewildering extent, with many specialisms, each seeking ever more expensive research programmes delivering spectacular results. One such research program utilises the state-of-the-art James Webb "telescope" and their imagery is both breath taking and revealing, so I thought to draw your attention to it.

"James Webb" is revealing to us Protostars being created in extremely short periods of cosmic time,  JuMBOs and Markers for life. It also has also show 19 spiral galaxies (so far) in extraordinary detail.  

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  Tinkerbell found by James Web telescope? ...

 

Above I am trivialising the (potential) contributions of the James Webb space telescope, but you cannot be anything other than amazed at the images it is capturing, even if in this case it reminded me of Peter Pan's attendee called Tinkerbell.

N.B. James E. Webb was not an astronomer, but a high-ranking administrator of the early American space program, after which the telescope was named in his honour.