James Webb Space Telescope explained

Find out what you're looking at in some of the first images looking deep into the history of the universe! Understand why the JWST is so important, and why people all over the world are excited by this huge scientific achievement. Three experts explain from the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. #unfoldtheuniverse

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00:30 What you can see in the Deep Field Image
01:46 Why infrared?
02:20 Redshift explained
03:10 Hot gas giant exoplanet WASP-96 b atmosphere
03:57 How JWST can be so precise
05:10 Where is JWST? and why it's literally so cool
06:34 Southern Ring Nebula
07:20 Why two photos of Southern Ring Nebula?
07:36 JWST is international

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[mugiyono]

Thanks ... For Love to Mrs Santa Barbaraaa ... Man to telescof .... We must oll to stady .... .🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏.

[kennethadkins]

Do you all realize how big the space time is zooming out from that deep field images. I thought we would get a little deeper but it is so large what we are in is crazy. We need to see the grand scale of the universe and the slight warped area of more gravitational energy areas more massive areas of energy outside of what we see.?

[ecineko]

how do scientists idetify light coming from a partciluar object, like how do they know the light is not from close by stars

[kennethadkins]

I was hoping the Webb would show a more comprehensive map of what we see with the telescope. We have large area outside us of what we see that is more and less energy what we see. That's reality.

[nyiceone]

Why do they say that’s light from billions of years ago??? I thought it be the opposite “light from the future”? 🤔🤔

[dtex]

Billions of dollars spent for pictures of places in which we are centuries away from ever traveling to visit. I wonder how many mouths that billions could’ve fed right here on earth.