The James Webb Space Telescope is really being built to answer some of the biggest questions in astronomy today.

These are questions that almost everyone asks at some point in their life.

Where did we come from? How do we get here?

Are we alone in the universe?

This is NASA's curious universe.

Our universe is a wild and wonderful place.

I'm Patty Boyd, and in this podcast, NASA is your tour guide. Our universe is a wild and wonderful place.

I'm Patty Boyd, and in this podcast, NASA is your tour guide.

For 25 years, scientists and engineers from around the world have been working to design and build a revolutionary window into the early universe, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.

The James Webb Space Telescope will be the biggest and most complex telescope that NASA has ever built.

It's a telescope that will test the boundaries of human ingenuity to find and probe some of the farthest objects and reveal new details about some closer to home.

In late December of 1995, as kids unwrapped their holiday presents, the Hubble Space Telescope pointed towards a small region inside the Big Dipper and stared for 10 days.

To the naked eye, it was an empty patch of sky. But that's not what Hubble saw.

This little blank piece of sky was found to have thousands of galaxies in it.

That's Eric Smith.

He's the program scientist of the James Webb Space Telescope.

The image he's talking about, the Hubble Deep Field, was packed with galaxies of different

shapes, colors, and sizes.

For the first time, we saw what the universe looked like almost all of the different shapes, colors, and sizes.

For the first time, we saw what the universe looked like almost all the way back to when it

formed.

Almost.

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