The James Webb Space Telescope has just produced yet another stunning image: the planet Neptune, glittering like a mirrorball, as its rings and moons dance around it. Humanity’s newest, best and most expensive telescope has dazzled us again and again in its first few months of operation, and will continue to do so for another couple of decades. But perhaps the most astonishing image it has produced so far is one of the least dramatic: the first of its photographs ever released. I suspect many of us still do not understand how astonishing that image is, and why. I will attempt to explain both.
[ Neptune and its rings shown in new light by Webb space telescope ]
[ First images from new space telescope reveal deepest parts of universe in new clarity ]
How to see light from the dawn of time
I’ve spent the past decade researching a book that redescribes the universe. Yes, all of it….
