Emily's back from New Zealand, Chris is ... still just around, really. And Syzygy returns from hiatus with Episode 100, looking back on a huuuuuge year for the Just Wonderful Space Telescope. Emily takes us through the five "first-light" images released from JWST several months ago — plus one little bonus image that they found behind the couch. (Oh, and sorry for the audio quality on this one — for boring technical reasons we had to share one microphone ... Back to our usual high-quality production values for 101!)

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Things we talk about in this episode:

•   JWST on the web: NASA and ESA

•   JWST launch video

•   Lagrange points

•   JWST’s orbit at L2

•   JWST first images

•   Image 1: Webb’s First Deep Field

•   Image 2: Carina Nebula

•   Image 3: Stephan’s Quintet

•   Image 4: Southern Ruing Nebula

•   Image 5: WASP-96 b

•   Surprise extra image: Jupiter!

•   Conference info: First Science Results from JWST, Dec 2022