Stellar Gymnastics, Phantom Galaxy, Pillars Of Creation – Webb's Breathtaking Images Of The Cosmos. IN PICS

Webb's First Deep Field: This is the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe so far. It is an image of the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723, which is present near the constellation Volans in the southern sky. Thousands of galaxies and the faintest objects ever observed in infrared light have appeared in Webb's view. [Photo: NASA]

WASP-96 b: The James Webb Space Telescope has imaged the distinct signature of water, along with evidence for clouds and haze, in the atmosphere surrounding a hot, puffy, gas giant planet. The planet is orbiting a distant Sun-like star. Webb has revealed the steamy atmosphere of the distant planet in detail. [Photo: NASA]

Webb's third image to be unveiled is that of the Southern Ring planetary nebula or the Eight-burst Nebula. The nebula is approximately 2,500 light years away from Earth. Planetary nebulae are the shells of gas and dust ejected from dying stars. Through its third full-colour image, Webb has revealed details of the Southern Ring planetary nebula that were previously hidden from astronomers. Shells of gas and dust ejected from dying stars constitute planetary nebulae. The powerful infrared view of Webb has brought the nebula's second star into full view, along with exceptional structures created as the stars shape the gas and dust around them. [Photo: NASA]

Stephan's Quintet: This is Webb’s fourth full-colour image released by NASA. The image shows in rare detail how interacting galaxies trigger star formation in each other and how gas in galaxies is being disturbed. Webb has captured “dancing galaxies” in the Stephan’s Quintet. [Photo: NASA]

Cosmic Cliffs: The fifth and final full-colour image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope is that of the Carina Nebula. The image reveals baby stars in the Carina Nebula, where ultraviolet radiation and stellar winds shape colossal walls of dust and gas. It reveals emerging stellar nurseries and individual stars in the Carina Nebula. The image is called Cosmic Cliffs, and is a seemingly three-dimensional picture. A landscape of mountains and valleys speckled with glittering stars can be seen in the image. [Photo: NASA]

Webb has tracked solar system objects at speeds more than twice the requirement. The telescope has detected faint galaxies and observed targets as bright as Jupiter. The NIRCam instrument captured two images of Jupiter. One of the pictures is a short-wavelength image while the other is a long-wavelength image. [Photo: NASA]

An astronomer created a breathtakingly beautiful image using data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. It is an image of a 'purple galaxy' known as Messier 74 (M74). The galaxy is located 32 million light years away from Earth in the constellation Pisces. It is popularly known as the Phantom Galaxy. [Photo: Twitter/@gbrammer]

Stellar Gymnastics: The James Webb Space Telescope captured a breathtakingly beautiful image of the Cartwheel Galaxy. The image reveals interesting details about star formation in the Cartwheel Galaxy, and also the black hole located at the galaxy's centre. NASA has described the chaos in the Cartwheel Galaxy as 'Stellar Dynamics'. [Photo: NASA]

Webb has captured its first direct image of a planet outside the solar system, known as an exoplanet. The exoplanet does not have a rocky surface, and is not habitable, because it is a gas giant. The telescope has imaged the exoplanet HIP 65426b using four different light filters. [Photo: NASA]

The exoplanet HIP 65426b's purple-coloured image shows the Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) instrument's view at three micrometres, the blue image represents NIRCam's view at 4.44 micrometres, the etres, and the red image represents MIRI's view of the exoplanet at 15.5 micrometres. The four colours represent views of the exoplanet in different bands of infrared light. Within each instrument, a set of masks, called a coronagraph, is present.yellow image shows the Mid-Infrared Instrument's (MIRI's) view at 11.4 micron. [Photo: NASA]

Webb, has unveiled a cosmic creation by imaging 'never-before-seen young stars' in the Tarantula Nebula. The telescope has also captured distant background galaxies and the detailed structure and composition of the stellar nursery's gas and dust. [Photo: NASA]

Webb has captured breathtakingly beautiful images of the Orion Nebula. The pictures reveal scattered starlight, ionised gas, molecular gas, hydrocarbons, and dust. [PDRs4All]

Webb's first images of Mars reveal rings of the Huygens Crater, the dark volcanic rock of Syrtis Major, the Hellas Basin, and features such as craters and dust layers. [Photo: NASA]

Webb has captured Neptune, its rings, and seven of its moons. The image gives the 'clearest' view of Neptune's rings in decades. [Photo: NASA]

Webb has revealed the bones of a spiral galaxy called IC 5332, which lies 29 million light-years from Earth. NASA has described the image as 'gothic', 'dark' and 'moody’. Webb's Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) has captured the gothic image of IC 5332, and revealed the bones of the spiral galaxy, usually hidden by dust. [Photo: NASA]

Webb captured the effects of NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft colliding with asteroid Dimorphos [Photo: NASA]

Webb has captured the tree rings from a rare type of star system. The telescope imaged at least 17 concentric dust rings emanated by a pair of stars known as Wolf-Rayet 140 (WR140). Located over 5,000 light-years from Earth, the star duo forms a 'fingerprint' in space. [Photo: NASA]

Webb has captured a sparkling image of the Pillars of creation, where stars are born. Webb's image reveals a highly detailed landscape and new stars within dense clouds of gas and dust. Though the three-dimensional pillars look like majestic rock formations, they are far more permeable. The pillars are made up of cool interstellar gas and dust. At times, these columns appear semi-transparent in near-infrared light. [Photo: NASA]