The Biggest Space Telescope in the Universe (UPDATE!)

Tumble Science Podcast for Kids

Tumble Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Hear sounds created from images by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, in this updated episode! The biggest space telescope in the universe had a busy summer, wowing us with incredible images of the cosmos like we've never seen before. But it took a lot of work to get there! Learn about it in this episode, originally released in December 2021.

Hear more Webb sound here.

Watch the launch here.

See Webb's first images here.

How do you launch the largest space telescope ever built into space? The James Webb Space Telescope will travel 1.5 million miles away from Earth to help answer some of our biggest questions about the universe. But first, it has to be launched on a rocket - and the telescope is too big to fit on a rocket. So NASA decided to fold it up - and then unfold it in space. How? NASA scientist Knicole Colón and NASA engineer Alphonso Stewart take us on a journey through the world’s biggest origami project.

We have big news to share about Season 8 next week, so keep your ears out for the trailer!

Transcript

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0:00.0	Here that, that's cosmic clips in the Karina Nebula made from an image captured by the
0:12.9	James Webb Space Telescope and turned into sound.
0:17.1	Wow, that's really beautiful, but how do you turn an image into sound?
0:24.6	A team of scientists and musicians working with the member of the blind and visually
0:29.5	impaired community assigned different musical notes to the colors or frequency of light
0:35.8	in the images.
0:37.6	Then they played the image from left to right.
0:42.0	To be honest, it sounds kind of like meditation music.
0:48.0	Now you can literally meditate on the stars.
0:51.0	That's amazing.
0:52.0	I'm feeling really centered right now.
0:54.3	Yes, I'm calm, I'm collected, and I'm excited to see NASA come out with these
0:59.2	cosmic sound scapes this week.
1:02.1	It feels like they did it for us because it's the perfect podcast cap off to what has been
1:07.8	honestly the hottest science of summer.
1:10.6	The hottest science of summer is that just when you do science in a room that doesn't have
1:14.4	air conditioning.
1:15.4	No, it's when everybody's talking about your science and you're like, ooh.
1:19.7	But it's probably even hotter if you don't have air conditioning.
1:23.4	True.
1:24.4	That web science of summer is not over because did you know they just released the first ever
1:30.8	direct image of an exoplanet?
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