Smaller Gites, here you are. This is a short classroom-friendly version of a classic

oligee's episode. It's perfect for a quick listen, or one where there are potentially

smaller Gites present. What a week for this. In case you missed it, NASA just released

images from the James Webb Space Telescope. This is the largest optical telescope in space

at launched in late 2021 and it cruised into its orbit about a million miles away in January.

We saw the first images come out this week, July 2022, and it was a bigger deal than any

of our brands can comprehend because it produced the deepest and sharpest infrared image of

the universe ever to date. NASA says thousands of galaxies, including the faintest objects

ever observed in the infrared, have appeared in Webb's view for the first time. This slice

of the vast universe is approximately the size of a grain of sand held at arm's length

by someone on the ground. It is a tiny slice, and in that tiny slice there are thousands

of little dots in the photo, each one a galaxy, and in each galaxy potentially hundreds

of billions, maybe trillions of stars. There is a lot out there, and how exciting to

be on Earth as it is discovered. Enjoy this small G's episode about what might be out there.

Oh hey, it's that guy in your video editing class who choose so much gum, you're actually

worried about him. Ali Ward, back with another episode of Allegies. This episode, I'm just

going to say this up top, just get out of the way. It's out of this world. I said it,

out of this world. Astrobiology, let's get to it. Once called exobiology, but let's consult

the Greek, shall we? Astro comes from the word for star, and biology has its roots in the

verb to live. So what is out there living on those ding-dong stars? What's on the planets?

That's the big question. Is anything alive out there? What are the odds? Is it big? Is

it small? Is it cool within us? So to get some answers, we'll consult a professional.

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