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The first (non-calibration) image from the James Webb Space Telescope has been released, showing the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723.
See https://www.nasa.gov/webbfirstimages


Additional images will be released in under 24 hours.

WASP-96b spectrum:

NGC 3132 / Southern Ring Nebula / Eight-Burst Nebula in near- and mid-infrared:

Stephan's Quintet:

Part of the Carina Nebula:

All images can be found here: https://webbtelescope.org/resource-gallery/images

There are some more pictures in this pdf, including infrared Jupiter.

And for the images: a tool that compares the Webb images to images to the Hubble images of the same objects: https://johnedchristensen.github.io/WebbCompare/

Edit: The first image is not aligned perfectly.

Anthony_B_Russo10 wrote:And for the images: a tool that compares the Webb images to images to the Hubble images of the same objects: https://johnedchristensen.github.io/WebbCompare/

stacked together the JWST and hubble images of the quintet from that tool in gimp

its such eye-candy, best time to be alive right now for space exploration


its just truly remarkable at what JWST can do, it can spot Thebe, Metis, jupiter's rings, and even this little young galaxy (from deep field image)