A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS, BUT THE FIRST PHOTOS TAKEN BY THE JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE, RELEASED LAST MONTH BY NASA, ARE WORTH THOUSANDS OF GALAXIES. CAPTURING LIGHT THAT BEGAN TRAVELING BILLIONS OF YEARS AGO, THESE IMAGES OF THE DISTANT UNIVERSE ARE NOTHING IF NOT AWE-INSPIRING — AND SPIRIT-STIRRING, TOO, AS THEY EVOKE UNSEEN, UNFATHOMABLE FORCES FAR BIGGER THAN US LITTLE HUMANS ON OUR FUNKY, TROUBLED PLANET.