How does the camera on the James Webb Space Telescope work and see so far out? – Kieran G., age 12, Minnesota Imagine a camera so powerful it can see light from galaxies that formed more than 13 billion years ago. That’s exactly what NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is built to do.

Using its Mid-Infrared Instrument, JWST directly imaged TWA 7b, ten times lighter than any exoplanet previously captured in images.

Researchers identified the likely planetary candidate’s infrared light after blocking out its host star’s overwhelming glare