[Special] Everything NASA Discovered from YEAR 2 of JWST

Jul 22, 2024

Explore the fascinating discoveries from the second year of the James Webb Space Telescope including Jupiter's moons, Uranus rings, exoplanets, TRAPPIST-1 system, asteroid collisions, methane on exoplanets, rogue planets, lobster nebula, black holes, distant galaxies, and the epoch of re-ionization.

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Intro

00:00 • 4min

A Comprehensive Exploration of Webb's Discoveries in Year 2

04:14 • 38min

Exploring Discoveries from Year 2 of James Webb Telescope

41:56 • 12min

It's already been two years of JWST operations. In this episode we accumulated all the major science results, all the amazing images and graphs, all the important discoveries and controversies. Enjoy the ULTIMATE GUIDE to the second year of James Webb.

📺 VIDEO VERSION
https://youtu.be/wh4G1Wh79Ck

🥇 All the JWST discoveries from YEAR 1
https://youtu.be/nbDQEo0uA0Q

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00:00 Intro
01:29 Jupiter's Moons
04:26 Uranus and its faintest rings
05:58 Exoplanets
06:24 TRAPPIST-1 system
09:04 Exomoon around a brown dwarf
11:01 Asteroid collisions
12:15 Hycean world
16:00 Methane on an exoplanet
17:00 Exoplanet weather
19:15 Water delivery to exoplanets
20:33 Sand clouds on an exoplanet
22:00 Rogue planets
24:12 Key molecule for life
25:53 Lobster nebula
27:07 A very young star
28:11 Horsehead nebula
29:24 Binary young star
30:40 Ring nebula
31:52 Pillars of creation in 3D
33:05 Crab nebula
34:02 Cassiopea A
34:49 Heart of the Milky Way
36:02 Extragalactic
36:19 Supernova 1987a
37:51 Triangulum galaxy
39:38 Spiral galaxies face on
40:51 Whirlpool galaxy
42:21 El Gordo and gravitational lenses
43:45 Erindel
45:08 Cosmic web
46:19 Most distant active black hole
48:16 Most distant galaxy
49:25 Epoch of Re-ionization
51:24 What's next

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