Today, let's give ourselves the gift of stepping back from the tensions and tragedies in

the regular news cycle, and instead talk about something that's working and working beautifully

beyond expectation and expanding human knowledge past the boundaries of our imaginations.

This month, NASA released yet another spectacular image caught by the James Webb Space Telescope.

This one is of the row of fuchsie-cloud complex, and it's a vast field of towering, swirling

columns of gases and shrouding the light of baby stars, and it's a wonder to behold.

The James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, is celebrating its first year of operational science.

It's situated one million miles away from Earth and peering as far back into the universe

as we ever have.

By nature, we are explorers, we are frontiers, people.

And so the question that we often ask is, who are we?

Where are we?

Why are we here?

How is it that it developed that life as we know it has been created here on this

stony mid-size planet revolving about a mid-size star that we call our saw?

Is there life out there in the cosmos?

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, that was his answer when asked by CBS News

why humanity needs missions like JWST.

Jane Rigby is NASA project scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope mission,

and she says the telescope is breaking boundaries.

What Webb is giving us that's new is a perspective that is sharper,

that is clearer, that sees further back in time,

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