I think the Web Telescope will attract the attention of everyone.

Number one, because it's a huge technical thing to do, and number two, because we're going to discover things nobody ever knew about.

And I suppose number three is we'll make pretty pictures, but I think the great discoveries that really fit into our history of ourselves.

How did we get here from the Big Bang story, the expanding universe?

Galaxies growing, black holes growing, stars blowing up, new star systems being produced,

planets growing around those little stars.

We might also get some big surprises too.

I like to think that our imagination has been limited all along,

and we probably still find something we never thought of.

I think we will.

This is NASA's curious universe.

Our universe is a wild and wonderful place.

I'm Patty Boyd, and in this podcast, NASA is your tour guide.

In just a few weeks, the world's most powerful and complex space telescope

will begin a journey like no other.

From a million miles away, the James Webb Space Telescope will gaze out into our solar system and beyond.

It will peer back in time 13.5 billion years to when our universe was merely a toddler.

We want to understand how, out of a hot soup of chaos,

the first stars and galaxies took shape.

The James Webb Space Telescope will look at stars and planets near and far

to search for clues to our origins and to the question everyone wants to know.

Are we alone?

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