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Unexplainable

What’s the James Webb telescope searching for?

Unexplainable

Vox

Life Sciences, Science, Natural Sciences

4.52K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

A lava planet, life on other worlds, the very first starlight in the universe — the most powerful space telescope ever built is ready to reveal many mysteries of the cosmos. For more, go to http://vox.com/unexplainable It’s a great place to view show transcripts and read more about the topics on our show. Also, email us! [email protected] We read every email. Support Unexplainable by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Last week, NASA released the first color images from the James Webb Space Telescope.

0:51.0

And they're just jaw-dropping.

0:54.0

The first image is a picture of thousands of these intricate beautiful galaxies.

0:59.0

And what's truly stunning about it is that this image is of the tiniest patch of sky.

1:05.0

It's the equivalent of holding up a grain of sand against the sky at arm's length.

1:10.0

There's a whole bunch of other images, including this enormous orange nebula,

1:15.0

that sort of looks like a mountain range, except the peaks of these mountains are seven light years tall.

1:22.0

It's just been a few images so far, but the web is already showing us things we just couldn't see before.

1:29.0

Last year, before the web launched, we made two episodes all about the telescope,

1:34.0

how NASA designed it to take these mind-blowing images,

1:37.0

and what kind of enormous questions they're trying to answer with it.

1:41.0

So we thought we'd share them with you again this week.

1:44.0

This time is one mega episode.

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