Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship enterprise and

Jeff Carlin as he leaps out into space with the web telescope while I'm in the

comfy chair recovering painfully from surgery that I haven't had yet and you're

listening to the Chicago Way on WGN Plus. The Chicago Way is a deep cultural

phenomenon. It's the Chicago Way. The Chicago Way, that's the focus. In a tower

by the river, there lived a man. There was a man who took a stand with pen and

paper in his hand. Defeating foes in every ward with a pen more mighty than the

sword. No escape from his ink lasso in the tower by the river. Castle.

How do you get him? He pulls a knife. You pull a gun. He sends 20 years to the hospital.

He's in one of his to the mark. That's your back away.

Hey Jeff, I was there for a cold open, huh? Excellent, John. Excellent. Yeah, John,

it's a very big surgery for you, huh? You know what? Get off the surgery subject first.

Let's get to the Jeff Carlin deep show. He's geeking out.

Yes, as John, I taped this. The big James Webb space telescope, deep space telescope,

the first calibrated images were released by NASA. They're amazing. We're only seeing

the early images. There's some more stuff that'll come out later this year and some more

data points, but it's incredible. Just to conceptually understand the difference between this

and what we have is the Hubble telescope is a really interesting starting point because

people know the Hubble telescope orbits around our planet. It's near the same position or

miles above the earth as the space station. It's beyond that, but it's relative to our

our distance like a moon. The Webb telescope is almost twice the distance of the moon.

And it's in a fixed position that leaves it forever in the shadow behind our planet.

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