Best of 2022: James Webb space telescope – thousands of galaxies in a grain of sand
Science Weekly
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🗓️ 5 January 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. So, so, so skin. |
| 0:18.0 | Get your morning mojo going with Mullah like Greek style. |
| 0:27.0 | Now with a new recipe, with Vitamin B6 and Vitamin D. Let's have it! Mull-a-light, get the good going. Hi Madeline here's |
| 0:40.9 | Madeline here. The Science Weekly team is taking some time off and we're going to be back with you next week |
| 0:46.4 | But until then here's one of our favorite episodes from last year, the launch of the long-awaited James Webb Space Telescope. |
| 0:51.0 | In 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope brought us some incredible images from our universe, |
| 0:58.0 | from some of the first galaxies to form after the Big Bang, to a totally new view on the pillars of creation. |
| 1:05.1 | In this episode, my co-host Ian Sample speaks to Professor Jayawardner about JWST |
| 1:11.5 | and the quest to discover our place in the cosmos. We'll no doubt be seeing a lot more |
| 1:17.1 | from the James Webb Space Telescope in 2003 too. I hope you enjoy the episode. We'll be back on Tuesday. See you then. It's not often you get the President of the United States announcing the results from a science experiment. |
| 1:44.0 | Light from other worlds orbiting stars far beyond our own. |
| 1:49.0 | It's astounding to me when I read this. |
| 1:51.0 | The James Webb Space Telescope, the largest and most powerful |
| 1:55.0 | space-based observatory ever built, took decades to make it to the launch pad. |
| 1:59.8 | And lift off. |
| 2:01.8 | Decolage. Decolage, lift off. Decolage. |
| 2:03.0 | Decolage lift off from a tropical rainforest to the edge of time itself. |
| 2:08.0 | James Webb begins a voyage back to the birth of the universe. |
| 2:12.0 | After major delays, threaten cancellations and spiraling costs, |
| 2:18.0 | the $10 billion telescope is now in position, |
| 2:21.0 | 1 million miles from Earth, and finally observing the universe. |
| 2:26.6 | If you heard our episode on Web back in December 2021, you'll know just how nail-biting the |
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