Unique images in the universe from the James Webb telescope

Below are unique, breathtaking images of objects and phenomena in the universe recorded by the James Webb Telescope.

A pair of stellar nurseries located 1,600 light years from Earth, including the Orion Nebula  and the Trapezium Star Cluster , are home to very young and bright stars. Four of those stars can be observed with conventional telescopes. In particular, one of these four stars can be observed with the naked eye when it is up to 20,000 times brighter than the Sun. In addition to the above four large stars, the Orion Nebula and the Trapezium Cluster also contain about 700 additional young stars with different stages of formation.

Image of the Wolf-Rayet star at a distance of 15,000 light years recorded by the James Webb Telescope. This rare type of giant star, NASA estimates there are only about 220 such stars in the Milky Way, which contains at least 100 billion stars. Wolf-Rayet burns energy very quickly and very hotly, with a temperature 20 - 40 times the temperature of the Sun's surface, so its death comes very quickly and violently. A star like the Sun burns for about 10 billion years, but a Wolf-Rayet star only burns for a few hundred thousand years.

The Ring Nebula 2,000 years from Earth was captured by the James Webb Telescope in dazzling beauty. This nebula was discovered by French astronomer Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix in 1779.

Dwarf galaxy NGC 6822 has only about 10 million stars compared to at least 100 billion stars in the Milky Way. However, the number of stars in this galaxy is also astonishing in James Webb's photo. Discovered in 1884 by American astronomer E.E. Barnard, NGC 6822 is known to have a dust tail that spans 200 light-years. This is also where dense stars are 100,000 times brighter than our Sun.

Spiral galaxies are often identified by their uneven "arms". But it's not the M51 galaxy located 27 million light years from Earth, as determined by the tension of its "arms" and the compression of its structure. M51 is not alone in the universe. Nearby is galaxy NGC 5195 . These two galaxies collided and NGC 5195 seemed to emerge victorious.

Lying below Orion's belt is one of the most famous celestial objects in the night sky: the Orion Nebula - a stellar nursery "home" to 700 young stars. This image from the James Webb Telescope does not focus on the entire nebula but only a portion of its structure.

Star cluster IC 348 is only 5 million years old and 1,000 light years from Earth. Comprised of about 700 stars, IC 348 looks like thin curtains made of dust that reflects the light of the stars.

The Pandora Cluster, also known as Abell 2744 , is not just a galaxy or galaxy cluster but a cluster of four galaxy clusters. Located 3.5 billion light years from Earth, the Pandora Cluster spans 350 million years. Its enormous gravity has allowed astronomers to use it as a gravitational lens to bend and magnify the light of objects in front of it, making observations easier.

The James Webb Telescope was built to observe the oldest and most distant objects in the universe, some of which are up to 13.4 billion light years away. Pictured are Saturn and some of its 146 moons .

The Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex is a colorful region of dust clouds. This is the closest star-forming region to our Solar System. The Rho Ophiuchi molecular cloud complex is known as the summer masterpiece and is about 460 light-years away from us in the constellation Ophiuchus (also known as Ophiuchus).