NASA’s billion dollar investment has proven to be a mighty asset that is doing precisely what it was built to do.

To understand the earliest stages of the universe in new and exciting ways.

To eventually help us understand and trace back our own origins. After recently discovering 6 mega galaxies that formed when our universe was a hot dense soup, researchers have been itching to keep testing and flexing Webb’s capabilities. And every observation keeps yielding results with more and more distant and ancient galaxies, each with a unique characteristic.

But what happens when we discover organic material including the building blocks of life, in one of these ancient, early galaxies?