NASA's James Webb telescope reveals the universe as we've never seen it before

The White House released the first image of the collection of pictures from the James Webb Space Telescope during a preview event Monday. (Space Telescope Science Institute/NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO)

At first glance, the first image from NASA's new James Webb Space Telescope may not seem all that remarkable.

But in reality, what appears to be tiny specks in space are actually galaxies — billions of years old.