The James Webb space telescope will give us access to almost the entire playing field of the universe from seven yards up to a hundred yards. This is an extraordinary triumph of modern astraphysics, enabled ampowered by brilliant engineers that enabled us to work with this telescope to begin with. But we really want no be able to look in the other direction and predict the future, which we do with some i can tell you about solar eclipses in ten hundred, a thousand years from now, at what exact minute the sun will disappear,. as viewed from any point on earth's surface. Lright. So there you have it, garry, we'll sink in iron time line. And and
How far back in the universe’s timeline can the JWST see? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly explore the Coriolis Effect, hurricanes, the gridiron timeline of the universe, the physics of spinning objects, and much more!
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