The Telescope Is Taking All This Technical Data, but It's Not Showing Anything

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This is to day explainidid on the james webb space telescope. How does nassa walk the line between getting the public excited about what this telescope is do and representing fairly what it's actually seeing? These images are a conscious act of visual communication, says doctor amber stran.

But the images from the Webb Space Telescope still provide our best look yet at the formation of the universe. NASA astrophysicist Amber Straughn and science journalist Josh Sokol unpack humanity’s newest glimpse at the cosmos.

This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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