Recently, NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) teamed up to give astronomers around the world the greatest gift they’ve ever received: a chance to catch a peek of the past, at the creation of the universe and the edge of time itself.

The James Webb Telescope, dubbed “the premier observatory of the next decade,” one of the greatest scientific achievements of our time, opened this otherworldly window into creation rather than a philosophical theory, a mystical time machine, or an artistic metaphor.