A View of the Beginning of Time: An Update

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🗓️ 28 December 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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This week, The Daily is revisiting some of our favorite episodes of the year and checking in on what has happened in the time since they first ran. In July, NASA released new images captured from a point in space one million miles from Earth. Ancient galaxies carpeting the sky like jewels on black velvet. Fledgling stars shining out from deep within cumulus clouds of interstellar dust. Today, we return to our episode about the moment when the James Webb Space Telescope, the largest space observatory ever built, sent its first images back to Earth — and explore what the telescope has discovered since then in its long journey across the universe. Guest: Kenneth Chang, a science reporter for The New York Times.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Michael.
0:02.5	All this week, the Daily is revisiting some of our favorite episodes of the year and
0:07.6	learning what's happened in the time since they first ran.
0:11.5	Today, we return to an episode hosted by my colleague, Astead Hunden, about the incredible
0:18.6	moment when the James Webb Telescope, the largest space observatory ever built, sent
0:25.6	its first images back to Earth and here what it's discovered since then in its long journey
0:33.0	across the universe.
0:35.8	It's Wednesday, December 28.
0:42.7	So can there was big news in space this week?
0:45.6	Can you tell us about these new pictures from NASA that were revealed?
0:50.7	Yeah, we finally got pictures back from the James Webb Space Telescope.
0:55.4	This is the biggest new Earth Telescope that NASA has.
0:59.8	So these first photographs from Webb were so amazing that on Monday, six and a half
1:05.7	months ago, a rocket launched from Earth carrying the world's newest, most powerful deep space
1:10.6	telescope.
1:11.6	President Biden has a special event to unveil the very first photograph.
1:16.0	These images are going to remind the world that America can do big things.
1:21.3	One of the things they saw was a galaxy where it's so far away that the light took more
1:28.8	than 13 billion years to get to us here on Earth.
1:34.0	Light where stars were born and from where they die.
1:38.3	The universe is 13.8 billion years.
1:40.9	So it's going way back.
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