It can see things, we have never seen before.
is the replacement for the Hubble Space Telescope. However, NASA did not spend $10 billion and send a telescope a million miles away from Earth just so that it could take pictures of space with a different camera. Using its learnings from the Hubble mission, NASA has ensured that the JWST "goes beyond" what the Hubble has done so far, both literally as well as in terms of wavelengths it can capture.that JWST took and how they showed details that we hadn't seen before.
Astronomers were interested in looking at what auroras on Jupiter looked like and snapped up the planet in ultraviolet light with the Hubble Space Telescope to view them. Less than a decade later, the JWST captured the auroras with a near-infrared camera . With a little bit of artificial coloring, scientists were able to discern the details of these lights on the planet whose magnetic field is 20,000 times that of the Earth.
In all fairness to Hubble, the JWST's primary mirror is six times larger, which gives it a 15x coverage and better spatial resolution than the Hubble.
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