Everything NASA Discovered from James Webb's First Year in Space [4K]

This introductory paragraph outlines that the video will provide a comprehensive look back at the first year of observations by the James Webb Space Telescope. It will cover the great pictures, science results, new discoveries, surprises, problems experienced, and what the future holds in year two.

This paragraph highlights some of JWST's most visually stunning images released in its first year, including unprecedented views of the Tarantula Nebula, Orion Nebula, WR140 Wolf-Rayet star with concentric rings, and the iconic Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula. It emphasizes how JWST's infrared instruments can see through obscuring gas and dust to reveal stars forming inside nebula cocoons.

This paragraph focuses on how JWST is delivering on its promise to see early galaxies from soon after the Big Bang, already identifying candidate galaxies from 200-400 million years after the Big Bang. Surprisingly, some early galaxies seem as massive as the Milky Way, causing controversy about whether models need revising and better understanding of signals from most distant galaxies.

This paragraph explains how JWST combined with gravitational lensing is enabling more precise galactic chemistry from early universe to better inform cosmological models. Findings of organic molecules like polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons from a galaxy billions of light years away have exciting implications for origins of life's building blocks.

This paragraph covers JWST's observations of the most distant quasar yet found from about 570 million years after the Big Bang. It is helping understand the surprisingly early emergence of supermassive black holes in cosmic history, during the most active quasar phase at cosmic noon a few billion years after the Big Bang.

This paragraph discusses JWST's images showing beginnings of cosmic web structure starting early in the universe's history. It has revealed a thin 3 million light year filament of early galaxies shaped by the gravity of an massive anchor galaxy 830 million years after the Big Bang.

This paragraph summarizes some of JWST's unprecedented exoplanet achievements in its first year, like first clear detection of carbon dioxide in atmosphere of exoplanet WASP 39b 700 light years away. It directly imaged giant exoplanet orbiting young star for first time and confirmed TESS discovered candidate exoplanet.

This paragraph lists solar system targets JWST imaged in first year, including Mars, Jupiter, Saturn's rings and moons, Uranus' icy rings, Neptune's dusty rings and storms, Saturn's moon Enceladus' icy geysers, Titan's organic-rich atmosphere and surface, and asteroid impact debris from NASA's DART test. Repeated imaging will reveal time variations.

This paragraph recounts some initial obstacles for JWST in its first year, like micrometeorite impacts degrading optics and several instrument modes needing repairs. But all instruments are working perfectly now and telescope lifetime looks to exceed 20 years due to precision orbit.

This concluding paragraph notes how more discoveries will emerge from embargoed data as well as new cycle 2 observations JWST was just awarded. It promises continued reporting on exciting JWST science for potentially 25 more years thanks to its durable orbit.