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The oldest organic molecules in the known Universe

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

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The Role of Hubble's JWST Telescope in the Early Universe

JWST was designed and built to be sensitive to wavelengths of light that are much redder than our eyes can see. Hubble basically stops a little bit after we go into the infrared, so JWST acts like a big light bucket for us in that sense. It's really exciting to use it," he says. "It has all of these different ways that it can look at the universe"

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