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Big Picture Science

Science, Technology

4.6986 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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The James Webb Space Telescope has turned its golden eye on the cosmos. The largest, most sensitive telescope put in space since the Hubble Space Telescope is already producing new photos of far-off galaxies and other cosmic phenomena. In this episode: astronomers share their reactions to these stunning images, the project scientist on JWST describes how infrared cameras capture phenomena that are invisible to shorter wavelengths, and a plan to investigate the very stardust that created everything, including you and me. Guests: Néstor Espinoza – Assistant astronomer, Space Telescope Science Institute, principal investigator for exoplanet atmospheric physics, James Webb Space Telescope Alyssa Pagan – Science Visuals Developer at the Space Telescope Science Institute John Mather – Nobel Prize-winning NASA astronomer and Senior Project Scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope Alex Filippenko – Professor of Astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley Featuring music by Dewey Dellay and Jun Miyake A special offer to Big Picture Science listeners: Receive 60% off the first month of a MEL Physics, MEL Chemistry or MEL STEM subscription. Just go to MELscience.com and use the promo code BPS or follow this link: https://melscience.com/sBI3/. You like science, that’s why you listen to Big Picture Science. So why not check out MEL science for your kids? Big Picture Science is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. Please contact [email protected] to inquire about advertising on Big Picture Science. You can get early access to ad-free versions of every episode by joining us on Patreon. Thanks for your support! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Listen to What's New With Wired, wherever you get your podcasts.

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That's What's New With Wired, wherever you get your podcasts. The James Webb Space Telescope is turning its golden eye on the cosmos.

1:05.0

It's the largest, most sensitive telescope we've put in space since the Hubble Space Telescope.

1:11.0

But why was it built? Not to make pretty pictures of the sky, although it's

1:16.0

certainly doing that, but to answer some of astronomy's deepest questions. How did the universe

1:21.3

come to be, and are there planets around other stars that have spawned life?

1:26.0

But only recently, relatively recently, have we developed enough understanding as well as the technical ability to answer these questions.

1:34.6

I'm Molly Bentley.

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I'm Seth Chaustack.

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This is Big Picture Science.

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