On July 12, NASA released images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. The telescope, which was launched in late 2021, is currently in orbit about one million miles away from Earth.
Total spending on the project eclipsed $10 billion through the 2021 fiscal year, close to 10 times the original cost estimate from NASA.
The initially released images include views of a dying star, the formation of a new star, a cluster of five galaxies, and the deepest infrared image of the universe to ever exist.
