The Future of Astronomy

This episode is edited and goes live in seven days. Some of what we say will already be outdated. We have JWST with its giant mirror out there to take an image of a massive galaxy cluster. And if you have the galaxy cluster and behind it you have light from a distant galaxy, some of that light is trying to shine straight towards us. But because these galaxy clusters don't have a smooth distribution, they're more like a carnival lens. All of these bent towards us light images that weren't meant to come our way are going to be completely distorted,. turned into basically streamers of galaxy. It's not just one planet's worth of light that gets bent our direction