The James Web Telescope Is Essentially a Time Machine

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James web telescope is essentially a time machine. We are literally seeing galaxies as they were in the distant past, which is exactly what this telescope was designed to discover. Some of the most distant galaxies in that image has been travelling over 13 billion years. There are galaxies here in which are seeing individual clusters of stars forming,. popping up just like popcorn to other galaxies light.

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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