The James Webb Space Telescope has recorded spectacular images of star formation in the extreme outer reaches of the Milky Way. Here's a look.

The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into the deepest cosmos and reveal new insights about the early universe. But it's also examining intriguing planets in our galaxy, along with the planets and moons in our solar system.

This is a combined image from Hubble and the James Webb space telescope. The galaxy is located about 130 million light-years from Earth.

Among the Milky Way’s outskirts is a firecracker show of star formation. How do environmental factors affect the star formation process? To help answer this question, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope

The James Webb Space Telescope has imaged a collision between two galaxies that appears to have created a beaming smile in space.

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NASA announced on September 18 their James Webb Space Telescope had captured another collision between two galaxies. The region of space is called Arp 107, the image shows an elliptical galaxy and a spiral galaxy in the middle of merging hundreds of millions of years ago.