The universe is expanding faster than we thought, Webb Space Telescope shows

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🗓️ 5 June 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has been exploring the cosmos for the past three decades, helping scientists understand how fast the universe is expanding and with that, its age. In December 2021, NASA launched the James Webb Space Telescope to further that research. The bonus: All those stunning images from outer space. Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke with Adam Riess, a physicist at Johns Hopkins University who shared the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics. He said the Webb telescope has confirmed what Hubble first pieced together: Our universe is expanding faster than first predicted.

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0:41.8	Just how old Still.
0:43.0	Just how old is the universe?
0:46.0	10 billion years old, maybe 20?
0:49.0	From American public media, this is Marketplace Tech.
0:52.0	I'm Lily Dromale. NASA's Hubble telescope has been exploring the Cosmos for the past three decades,
1:07.6	helping scientists understand how fast the universe is expanding and with that its age.
1:14.0	In December 2021, NASA launched the James Webb Space Telescope
1:18.0	to help further that research.
1:20.0	And lift off.
1:22.0	Decolage. Decolage, lift off. And lift off. Decolage lift off from a tropical rainforest to the edge of time itself.
1:28.6	James Webb begins a voyage back to the birth of the universe.
1:33.0	The bonus, all those stunning images from outer space.
1:37.0	Remember those?
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