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Ultimate Space Telescope Preview

Discover how NASA engineers built and launched the most ambitious telescope of all time.

Aired 07/13/2022

NOVA

Ultimate Space Telescope Preview

Preview: Season 49 Episode 10 | 28sVideo has Closed Captions

Discover how NASA engineers built and launched the most ambitious telescope of all time.

Follow the dramatic story of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope – the most complex machine ever launched into space – in hopes of peering deeper back in time than ever before and answering some of astronomy’s biggest questions.

Aired 07/13/2022

Additional funding for this program is provided by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the Heising-Simons Foundation, and the NOVA Science Trust with support from Anna and Neil Rasmussen and...

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How Scientists Created JWST's First Test Image

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A test image from the James Webb Space Telescope unexpectedly captured many galaxies. (4m 50s)

NASA Reacts to the James Webb Space Telescope Images

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This NASA team was the first to see the new James Webb Space Telescope images. (1m 55s)

Why Distant Galaxies Look Red

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The farther away a galaxy is, the redder it appears to our telescopes. (3m 40s)

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Additional funding for this program is provided by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the Heising-Simons Foundation, and the NOVA Science Trust with support from Anna and Neil Rasmussen and...

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