Matt: I feel like one day a blunder of mine could lead to maybe a Nobel Prize for medicine. Wendy: How come the universe is expanding faster than the speed of light, but galaxy stars and planets are not in a hurry to move away from each other? Matt: The speed of expansion is not only my buggling, but in a way supernatural, it should be perceivable. Dr. Wendy: We don't know anything about parts of the universe beyond where we can see light that has traveled to us since the age of the universe.
What do the early galaxies discovered by JWST tell us about the early universe? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Matt Kirshen explore the expansion of space, dark energy, and the age of the universe with astronomer, Wendy Freedman.
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Photo Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, I. LABBE
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