Is the Telescope a Data Visualization of the Universe?

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We're creating almost like a data visualization of your iphone or the telescope. It creates an array of numbersit takes in some data from the universe, and then there's ust at it step of like, how do we want to visualize that? And what this kind of breaks down to is, like, in every picle of this image, how much light do we see from the universe? That's all that the telescope wants to do.

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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