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The Nasa James Webb Space Telescope released its first full-colour image to the public on 12 July 2022. Taken from its orbit of the sun, some 1.5 million km beyond Earth, it captured thousands of twinkling distant galaxies in the sharpest-ever resolution. “I get incredibly excited by the photographs that JWST is showing us,” says Arizona-based astronomer Bruce…