A View of the Beginning of Time

The Daily

The New York Times

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4.5 • 97.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Ancient galaxies carpeting the sky like jewels on black velvet. Fledgling stars shining out from deep within cumulus clouds of interstellar dust. Hints of water vapor in the atmosphere of a remote exoplanet. This week, NASA released new images captured from a point in space one million miles from Earth. Today, we discuss the James Webb Space Telescope, the world’s most powerful space observatory, its journey to launch and what it can teach us about the universe. Guest: Kenneth Chang, a science reporter for The New York Times.

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0:00.0	I'm Elise Hugh.
0:01.4	And I'm Josh Klein.
0:02.6	And we're the hosts of Built for Change, a podcast from Accenture.
0:06.1	On Built for Change, we're talking to business leaders from every corner of the world
0:09.8	that are harnessing change to reinvent the future of their business.
0:13.5	We're discussing ideas like the importance of ethical AI or how productivity soars when
0:18.9	companies truly listen to what their employees value.
0:22.1	These are insights that leaders need to know to stay ahead.
0:25.0	So subscribe to Built for Change, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:35.0	From the New York Times, I'm a stead-herndon.
0:37.5	This is The Daily.
0:40.5	This week, NASA released new groundbreaking pictures taken from a point in space, 1 million
0:47.5	miles from Earth.
0:51.4	Today, my colleague Ken Chang, on the telescope that took those images, it's journey to launch
0:59.6	and what it can teach us about the universe.
1:04.6	It's Friday, July 15.
1:13.7	So can there was big news in space this week?
1:16.7	Can you tell us about these new pictures from NASA that were revealed?
1:22.0	Yeah, we finally got pictures back from the James Webb Space Telescope.
1:26.4	This is the biggest, newest telescope that NASA has.
1:30.9	So these first photographs from Web were so amazing that on Monday, 6 and a half months
1:37.0	ago, a rocket launched from Earth carrying the world's newest, most powerful, deep space
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