Uploaded June 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Ahead of our launch, we asked you to show us what you believe the James Webb Space Telescope will reveal through art. Here are just some of submissions we received for our #UnfoldTheUniverse art challenge! Special thanks to all of our participants.
We are continuing to extend our challenge! With our first images coming July 12, 2022, we want to see how they inspired you! Keep sending in your art!
More details: go.nasa.gov/UnfoldTheUniverse
Our gallery of submissions: jwst.nasa.gov/content/features/jwstArt/unfoldTheUniverse.html
Artists featured in this video:
Vincent Garcia
AJ Wagner
Alice Hanslay
Paolo Bettini
S Shanmathi
Kati Falcon
Austin Voges
Anusha Ivaturi
Barbara Fee Sheehan
Cat (YouTube: Fish Cat)
Ashley Zelenskie
Aahan Singh
Thy Quỳnh
Harshita Mathur
Jack LeBlanc
Jon Young
Michael Duncan
CJ Zahara
Daniela Fino
Alissa Ahmed
Vicki Chase, Canterbury Soapworks
Lizzeth Ruiz Arroyo
Mary McIntyre
Aviral Varma
Amber Owen, Montessori Schoolhouse
Edwin Vasquez
Melanie Joy Mezzancello
Eleanor Pomerantz
Ayaana Vipin Kunimal
Mark Shultes
Grayson Shaw
Nhi Tran
Lissa Buzzelli
Violetta Moonlight
Erin Barry-Dutro
Ahmed Jaidane
Noor Alain Mansour
Luke
Alaa
Hannah Grace F. Ernia
Daniel Schumacher
Zeinab Zare
Ben Canfield
André Mejia
Sanyukta Nishikant Nibandhe
Damien Kidlat Cabanado
Rebecca Sherer
Naalaa
Dolores Watson
Hanna Mernar
Diego and Evan Elias
Music Credits: Universal Production Music. "Magic Mirror" by Andy Blythe, Marten Joustra.
Credits:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Miranda Chabot, Lead Producer and Editor
Ahead of our launch, we asked you to show us what you believe the James Webb Space Telescope will reveal through art. Here are just some of submissions we received for our #UnfoldTheUniverse art challenge! Special thanks to all of our participants.
We are continuing to extend our challenge! With our first images coming July 12, 2022, we want to see how they inspired you! Keep sending in your art!
More details: go.nasa.gov/UnfoldTheUniverse
Our gallery of submissions: jwst.nasa.gov/content/features/jwstArt/unfoldTheUniverse.html
Artists featured in this video:
Vincent Garcia
AJ Wagner
Alice Hanslay
Paolo Bettini
S Shanmathi
Kati Falcon
Austin Voges
Anusha Ivaturi
Barbara Fee Sheehan
Cat (YouTube: Fish Cat)
Ashley Zelenskie
Aahan Singh
Thy Quỳnh
Harshita Mathur
Jack LeBlanc
Jon Young
Michael Duncan
CJ Zahara
Daniela Fino
Alissa Ahmed
Vicki Chase, Canterbury Soapworks
Lizzeth Ruiz Arroyo
Mary McIntyre
Aviral Varma
Amber Owen, Montessori Schoolhouse
Edwin Vasquez
Melanie Joy Mezzancello
Eleanor Pomerantz
Ayaana Vipin Kunimal
Mark Shultes
Grayson Shaw
Nhi Tran
Lissa Buzzelli
Violetta Moonlight
Erin Barry-Dutro
Ahmed Jaidane
Noor Alain Mansour
Luke
Alaa
Hannah Grace F. Ernia
Daniel Schumacher
Zeinab Zare
Ben Canfield
André Mejia
Sanyukta Nishikant Nibandhe
Damien Kidlat Cabanado
Rebecca Sherer
Naalaa
Dolores Watson
Hanna Mernar
Diego and Evan Elias
Music Credits: Universal Production Music. "Magic Mirror" by Andy Blythe, Marten Joustra.
Credits:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Miranda Chabot, Lead Producer and Editor




![Lets take a break together and reflect
The universe never wastes anything, its kind of like a cosmic recycler. All your atoms and molecules were created inside a previous generation of stars. The life cycle of star allows for new beginnings. So, even if you step into a new chapter, your old life hasnt been wasted. It helps you shine even brighter 💫
Rho Ophiuchi, seen here, is the closest-star-forming region to Earth. Webb spotted around 50 young stars, many close in mass to our star, giving us a glimpse into the early life of the Sun. Dark, dense dust cocoons still-forming protostars, while an emerging stellar newborn (top center) shoots out two huge jets of molecular hydrogen.
Webb’s ability to capture the universe in high-resolution, from early distant galaxies to the solar system we call home, is allowing us to better understand our own origins.
Credit: NASA/Lindsey Tober
Music: Shine A Light [Instrumental] via Universal Production Music
Video Description:
00:00-00:20 : The video begins with a slow zoom into the Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex. This is a region of gas, dust, and white/blue stars covering the screen. The top half of the screen showcases purple and pink gas and dust, whereas the bottom half shows light tan and orange gas and dust. White text fades onto the screen reading Feeling stuck?/Lets escape into the universe together. The video zooms further into the purple/pink clouds while text reads We are going to take three deep breaths together/Follow my lead.
00:20-01:12 : A four-colored circle (pink, dark purple, light tan, and burnt orange) appears on the screen. In the middle of the circle is white text counting to four. In the first four seconds, the circle grows, almost looking like the circle is breathing. White glow text appears above the circle that reads Inhale. In next four seconds, the text reads Hold. The next four seconds have the circle decreasing in size slightly and the text reads Exhale. The text reads Hold for the next four seconds. This pattern happens another two times, then fading out. During this pattern, the image sweeps into the red/orange colored jet stream and zooms into light tan gas and dust.
01:12- 02:05 : The camera pans over the light tan gas and dust to showcase a white star with six points extending the reach of the screen. It then pans back to the pink/purple gas and dust to showcase another jet stream, colored a deep red. The video zooms out to showcase the entire image. During this exploration of the image, white text fades onto the screen reading The Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex is filled with gas and dust from generations and generations of stars/Without this gas and dust, beautiful new stars wouldnt be able to form in this stellar nursery/Your old life was needed to help you flourish into the person you are today/So, just like the stars, even the darkness has a purpose…/…to help you shine brighter. The text fades away and four seconds later the image fades to black.
02:05-02:15 : The JWST logo appears, which reads, “Webb Space Telescope,” positioned to the right of an animation of JWST with reflective gold particles floating across the frame. The NASA meatball logo appears as a blue circle with “NASA” written across it, stars that dot the perimeter, and an animation of red and white slashes swoop across the logo. Lets take a break together and reflect](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/xBGVU5PioBs/mqdefault.jpg)




![#UnfoldTheUniverse With NASAs James Webb Space Telescope, Part 4
We asked you to show us what you believe the James Webb Space Telescope will reveal through art. Here are just some of submissions we received for our #UnfoldTheUniverse art challenge! Special thanks to all of our participants.
Thanks to intern Taylor Hart for this video!
Artists featured in this video:
(in order of appearance):
Pat Durning
Sanyukta Nishikant Nibandhe
Mark Shultes
Shelina Swastika Kumar
Căluz Luca
Marc Gottlieb
Dolores Watson
Daniela Fino
Juee Naik
Janset Aydogdu
Lanchen Mihalic
Galina Ivanova
Alice Hanslay
Ella Zhou
Greta Slocum
Michael Duncan
Sreshta Velamuri
Charity Woodrum
Lizzeth Ruiz Arroyo
Alice Hanslay
Jedidiah Dore
Erfan Habibpour
Pierre Vuaillet
Mahmood Nabipoor
Katherine Bjelke
David Law and Nora Luetzgendorf
Ava Strancke
Anri Demchenko
Marina Muscan
Poem by Pat Durning
Poem read by Taylor Hart
Eternal Eye
Cold.
Silent.
Alone in the Dark sits
Our Hope of Discovery
Our Fear of not Knowing
*
Calculated, slow Assembly; one piece resting upon another
By the group that builds:
…while paying the mortgage
…taking the kid to school
…caring for a dying parent
…living, Loving
One moment upon the next, dusk till dawn
Work for an eternal glimpse motoring on
*
Test and Twist
Push and Pull for the unknown journey ahead
While safe in the gravity of our planets’ Earthen beds
*
A collective of insights:
…minds for science
…builders
…movers
…testers
…those that oversee
Grouped together for a moment in time to
Test and Twist, Push and Pull
*
Cold Silence
Traveling in the dark
Further away gliding, until commanded to stop
*
Galaxies seen!
Unknowing becomes clear
Cold, silent Space
Our Eternal Eye rests Here
More details: https://go.nasa.gov/unfoldtheuniverse
(Note: our campaign has been extended!)
Our gallery of submissions: https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/features/jwstArt/unfoldTheUniverse.html
Music Credits: Universal Production Music. Luminous, Magnum Opus [ ASCAP ], Chalk Music [ PRS ]
Credits: NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center
Taylor Hart, Lead Producer and Editor #UnfoldTheUniverse With NASAs James Webb Space Telescope, Part 4](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ygOhuuocjrQ/mqdefault.jpg)
