James Webb Space Telescope

THE UNIVERSE'S FAVORITE NEW MIRROR

Launched in 2021 after several decades, a few redesigns, and enough engineering challenges to make even seasoned scientists sweat, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is humanity’s most ambitious attempt yet to see deeper into space—and further back in time—than ever before. Equipped with a segmented 18-panel gold-coated beryllium mirror array that looks suspiciously like it was designed by a very stylish honeybee, JWST captures infrared light from the earliest galaxies, newborn stars, and planetary systems in formation.

Positioned at the Sun–Earth L2 point, the telescope observes the cosmos with minimal interference from Earth’s glow (or our collective existential crisis). Its first images instantly became scientific icons—vast stellar nurseries, galactic clusters, and cosmic structures rendered in extraordinary detail.

This collection celebrates this modern marvel with artwork and replicas inspired by its striking geometric design and groundbreaking mission. Because if we’re going to study the dawn of time, we might as well look spectacular doing it.