NASA is celebrating 1 year of James Webb Space Telescope science on July 12. Here's how to participate - Space.com

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This week marks one year since NASA's powerful James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) shared its first science images.

On July 12, 2022, JWST beamed back its first full-color images and spectroscopic data, representing the official start of its general science operations. The observatory's first images captured new views of stunning cosmic objects and peered into the depths of the distant universe.

NASA is hosting a Science Live episode on Wednesday (July 12) at 4:00 p.m. EDT (2000 GMT) to honor the telescope's first year of science, and you can watch it here at Space.com, courtesy of the agency.

The Cosmic Cliffs in the Carina Nebula captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI)

The Science Live episode will feature two JWST experts, who will discuss the impact the space telescope has made in its first year studying the distant universe, characterizing exoplanet atmospheres and understanding the planets in our own solar system, according to a statement from the space agency.

You can watch the episode live on the NASA Science Live website, the agency's YouTube channel, or its Facebook and Twitter pages. (Space.com will carry the YouTube stream.) Viewers are encouraged to submit questions on social media using the hashtag #UnfoldtheUniverse or by leaving a comment in the chat section of the Facebook or YouTube stream.

Webb's first images included the deepest and sharpest infrared view of the distant universe, along with stunning photos of the Carina and Southern Ring Nebulas, a group of galaxies called Stephan's Quintet, and a spectrum of a gas giant exoplanet called WASP-96 b. Since then, the space telescope has revealed incredible new insights about the universe, including the discovery of the oldest galaxy ever imaged.