Highlights from The James Webb Space Telescope’s 4th Year of Science

Highlights from The James Webb Space Telescope’s 4th Year of Science

This Space Sparks episode highlights science results from Webb's 4th year of science operations.

"Webb is the largest, most powerful telescope ever launched into space." 

Under an international collaboration agreement, the European Space Agency (ESA) provided the telescope’s launch service, using the Ariane 5 launch vehicle. Working with partners, ESA was responsible for the development and qualification of Ariane 5 adaptations for the Webb mission and for the procurement of the launch service by Arianespace. ESA also provided the workhorse spectrograph NIRSpec and 50% of the mid-infrared instrument MIRI, which was designed and built by a consortium of nationally funded European Institutes (The MIRI European Consortium) in partnership with JPL and the University of Arizona.

Webb is an international partnership between NASA, ESA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA).

Credits:
Directed by: Bethany Downer and Nico Bartmann  
Editing: Nico Bartmann
Written by: Kerry Hensley  
Footage and photos: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb), Y. Cheng (NAOJ), J. DePasquale (STScI), G. Gozaliasl, A. Koekemoer, M. Franco, G. Rihtaršič (University of Ljubljana, FMF), R. Tripodi (University of Ljubljana, FMF), A. Levan (IMAPP), R. Naidu (MIT), P. Tiranti, H. Melin, M. Zamani (ESA/Webb), A. Leroy, A. Pedrini, A. Adamo (Stockholm University) and the FEAST JWST team, L. Furtak (Ben-Gurion University), R. Maiolino (Cambridge), F. D'Eugenio (Cambridge), I. Juodžbalis (Cambridge), H. Übler (MPE), C. Marconcini (University of Florence)
Duration: 1 minute, 53 seconds
Release Date: July 6, 2026

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