A composite of galaxy cluster known as MACS0416 created using James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope imagery. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, J. Diego (Instituto de Física de Cantabria,

The Sombrero galaxy, named for its resemblance to the Mexican hat, is about 30 million light-years from Earth.

The James Webb Space Telescope's brand-new image of the Sombrero Galaxy casts this city of stars in a new light — mid-infrared light, to be precise — and reveals clumps of dust in a mottled outer ring.

What does it take to build the most ambitious space telescope ever? Dive into the incredible engineering and the challenges behind the James Webb Space Telescope, a project decades in the making.