This is science. This is space si. These are asking the fundamental questions that we know, we all think about when we're up aed night and can't sleep. We want to see what's at the next star. And these old admissions that really only nasa, with the european space agency, with the canadians are ever going to try, because it's not a business proposition for ande billionaires. Injus. Like centuries ago, exploring the oceans, exploring the new continents, nastis exploring the solar system and the universe in ways that is very much in the adventure vain that people have always done.
Ancient galaxies carpeting the sky like jewels on black velvet. Fledgling stars shining out from deep within cumulus clouds of interstellar dust. Hints of water vapor in the atmosphere of a remote exoplanet.
This week, NASA released new images captured from a point in space one million miles from Earth.
Today, we discuss the James Webb Space Telescope, the world’s most powerful space observatory, its journey to launch and what it can teach us about the universe.
Guest: Kenneth Chang, a science reporter for The New York Times.
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