The launch and commissioning of the James Webb Space
Telescope is ushering in a new era in our understanding of our cosmic
origins. Galaxies are a fundamental building block of the universe,
yet how they formed has remained enigmatic owing to our inability to
observe them at early cosmic times. In just the first eight months of
data JWST is already revolutionizing our understanding of the early
universe by allowing us to detect and resolve early galaxies at
infrared wavelengths.  In this talk, I will discuss some of the
results that have come out of our work with JWST and their impact on
our understanding of the formation and evolution of galaxies. This
includes the discovery of candidate galaxies so old and massive they
should not exist, the surprising shapes of HST-dark galaxies, and a
new method for measuring kinematics that has revealed a monstrous
spinning disk 1 billion years after the big bang. The first
spatially-resolved infrared look at distant galaxies has revealed that
our previous understanding of the emergence of galactic structure was
faulty and requires a next-generation set of tools, which we are
building. I’ll conclude with a discussion of where the field is moving
and the rich discovery space in this new era of extragalactic
astrophysics.