
The bright star at the centre of the Southern Nebula Ring (NGC 3132), viewed by the James Webb Space Telescope in near-infrared light
(Picture: Nasa/AFP via Getty Images)Since the late 1960s, there has been a steady stream of beautiful cosmic pictures, thanks to technological development.
New telescopes have peered deeper into the cosmos. They have shown us images never seen before, like the first-ever image of a black hole, which was just declared to be science’s “breakthrough of the year”.