Incredible Discoveries Of The James Webb Telescope | Universe Explorers | BBC Earth Science

From nearby planets to the furthest galaxies, the James Webb telescope challenges everything we know about our place in the cosmos. Join us in episode one of 'Universe Explorers' as we discover how it's rewriting the universe as we know it.

[tor]

Incredible story. 17 years of sweat and tears go into JWST. I would cry, too.

[papepcool]

The one guy who was "Full of Smiles" and said he couldn't stop smiling after seeing the JWST images, Made me smile when he almost started crying. Awesome work all around.

[Kublai_jesus]

THIS is what is important. Not how much money is made or spent, record profits etc, this is why humans are alive. We owe it to ourselves to go beyond our tiny rock and JWST will be a huge leap toward that. Thank you to the staff that worked on it over the years and continue to process the data, you are at the forefront of Human innovation and we as a race are proud of you!

[Zaihanisme]

David's passion is so moving, my heart 😫
Olivia and Gillian are way too humble considering their contributions

[joebullwinkle]

The most wonderful part of the whole JWST story is that it was a coming together between many countries and their scientists and engineers, from design, construction and launch. It is another great demonstration of when human beings come together voluntarily in deliberate collaboration that literally anything is possible!

[ronkirk]

I just hope JWST has a long life with many, many more discoveries to come.

[ampeg]

I remember reading about this project back in school in 2008, i even regularly looked at NASA website time to time to see if there was any new progress. I was disappointed when each time it was announced that the project was postponed for further improvements since i was expecting a launch around 2014. Years passed by and i forgot about it and like a few months before the launch i saw it the news that this time its gonna be for real. Nostalgia hit me pretty hard and i was super nervous watching the launch live cuz if anything went wrong 20 years of extremely hard work would be gone in seconds and we would have lost one of the most important instruments in out history.

[lindaj]

2:35 Hang on: did she really say, “… in regions of star formation, there’s things like caffeine, alcohol, water ice… “. Has JWST discovered the restaurant at the end of the universe?

[Coolnesski]

Says he’s full of smiles, then doesn’t smile. Lol. Must be an engineer

[DavidMartinez-otfe]

So inspiring, man to think what we have achieved as a species! Seeing that guy almost year up thinking about this great achievement is emotionally contagious. Proud of everyone who was involved. Thank you all

[raguvaran_eternally]

Great salute to all the guys who worked on this project 🙏

[CptFitzgerald]

"There's coffee in that nebula." - Captain Janeway called it first.

[fratercontenduntocculta]

My favorite part of JWST is that it compliments Hubble, not replacing it. I love how JWST continues to shake up Astronomy and challenge our theories.

[iamsurojit]

...And they say science can't make you emotional❤

[FloopidyMcDoopidy]

Absolutely mind blowing both the images and the human achievement of creating such a device

[megamind_]

The fact that the team that created this magnificent wonder is from the same country that has people who still think the earth is flat will always blow my mind.

[hydraxisfrimon]

Full of smiles, indeed. Like that first shot looking back at earth from the moon, these shots show how tiny and insignificant we are, and yet how intriguing the earth experiment is, as it goes through its evolution apparently remote from other developed life forms. But now we can see so much more clearly how many billions of possibilities there are out there, and ponder if anything else is looking up at the sky wondering if they are alone

[stargazeronesixseven]

🙏 Thank You So Much for All who've contributed to this James Webb Space Telescope that opened our eyes & mind of just how vast our observable universe is ... Have to remind ourselves that, many of these images & happenings that registered on our eyes & in our mind happened many thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions or billions of years ago ... We are actually looking at our past! 🕯🌏

[khurramkhurshed]

James Webb super interesting discoveries 😊❤

[perguntassemresostas]

Understanding is very simple! leaving is past staying is present entering is future It doesn't matter if you leave the earth. The earth has to leave you. Letter to the James Webb Telescope.