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On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

First person: A scientist's discovery puts space into focus

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

WBUR

On Point, News, Npr, Daily, Talk Show

4.33.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

The James Webb Space Telescope is NASA, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency's most ambitious space observatory ever. A million miles away from Planet Earth, it is designed to look back to the beginnings of the universe.

In this 'First Person,' we hear from Robert Gonsalves, creator of the phase retrieval imaging technique now being used by the James Webb Space Telescope.

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I'm Magna Chakrabardi, host of On Point and oh, let me tell you today on our main show we had a super

0:55.3

delightful conversation about all the possibilities of human discovery because we talked about the James

1:02.4

Web Space Telescope. It's NASA and the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency's

1:09.4

most ambitious space observatory ever. It's a million miles away from planet Earth and it is

1:16.7

designed to look back to the beginnings of the universe. So we had a conversation with two

1:23.2

of the leading scientists working on the James Web Space Telescope. That was in our main show today,

1:28.0

so definitely check it out. Now, one of the things that I love most about science and discovery

1:36.0

is that it is the purest kind of team collaboration. I mean, very, very rarely. Can we pinpoint

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