Special episode: How powerful is NASA's new space telescope?

Tai Asks Why

CBC

Kids & Family

4.2 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

So, there's a MAJOR event happening in space science. NASA is set to launch the enormous James Webb Space Telescope. Why is this such a big deal? Tai's here to tell you why. Here's a hint: the JWST is SO powerful, it should be able to capture the faint light of the universe in its infancy. Guiding Tai on this starlit path of discovery is Dr. Naomi Rowe-Gurney, a James Webb Space Telescope postdoctoral researcher with the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Howard University.

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0:00.0	This is a CBC podcast.
0:06.4	Greetings, humans.
0:09.2	This is Ty.
0:12.8	Okay, so season four of Ty asks why it's still in the works, coming to you sometime in
0:21.1	the new year, but I just had to jump into your podcast feeds with some super important
0:27.2	breaking news.
0:31.8	It's like a major world event happening, and I wanted to talk to you guys about it because
0:36.8	it has to do with one of my favorite topics.
0:40.2	As you know, I'm a bit of a space guy.
0:42.4	I love reading about space.
0:44.0	I love looking at pictures of things in space.
0:47.1	You know, star clusters, nebulous, galaxies, those sorts of things.
0:54.2	Recently, I was browsing for a desktop background, and I saw this one really cool image of a spiral
1:00.6	galaxy, a white cloud swirling around a bunch of sparkling stars, thousands of light
1:06.9	years away, and it dawned on me.
1:09.7	How did they get this picture?
1:11.9	So I got on my computer, and I learned that it came from a telescope called Hubble.
1:19.6	Now Hubble launched in 1990, which is way before I was born, but it's still out there, flying
1:26.2	around the earth, taking pictures of the deep universe, and get this, since it launched,
1:32.2	it has made over a million observations.
1:35.8	That is quite a lot of space pictures, but it's over 30 years old.
1:41.5	I know that's not that old, or at least that's what my parents would say, but that's still
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