Elements of Webb: Elements Seeking Elements, Ep12

This is the "Elements of Webb" series finale. Webb uses a variety of unique and run-of-the mill elements in its build. It is also designed to detect the elemental makeup of distant objects. Learn how Webb uses spectroscopy to investigate new worlds.

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

Sophia Roberts (AIMM): Lead Producer
Sophia Roberts (AIMM): Lead Writer
Sophia Roberts (AIMM): Lead Editor
Sophia Roberts (AIMM): Videographer
Michael McClare (KBRwyle): Editor
Michael McClare (KBRwyle): Videographer
Michael P. Menzel (AIMM): Production Assistant
Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET): Lead Technical Support
Duncan Wiles: Videographer
Walt Feimer (KBRwyle): Lead Animator
Adriana Manrique Gutierrez (KBRwyle): Animator
Bailee DesRocher (USRA): Animator
Jacquelyn DeMink (USRA): Animator
Krystofer Kim (KBRwyle): Animator
Jonathan North (KBRwyle): Animator
Michael Lentz (KBRwyle): Animator

[michaelrodriguez]

I am a science teacher and have shared some of your Elements of Webb videos with my students. You are such an enthusiastic and engaging educator and your videos are so informative! I hope NASA continues to use you to make more videos about Webb and other topics!

[Dudleymiddleton]

Now arrived at L2, this has been a totally flawless, glitchless mission so far. Considering how many complications that could have been, I can't congratulate the team enough. Absolutely fantastic!

[joshcryer]

That shot of John Mather when the beat drops. Great. I predict JWST will find signatures of life on another planet in 5-10 years. This is a truly amazing time to be alive, and so proud and excited for the whole JWST team.

[moonzestate]

Thanks for another great episode, Sophia! Keep it up! 🥰

[DannyMancheno]

Sophia you are a rockstar video host, seriously on the levels of smarter every day and Veritasium, amongst a few. I love watching your stuff, just wish they were longer!

Hope to see you amongst more stuff in nasa, you’re definitely quite welcoming and make the information very very digestible. Again, rockstar!

[GordonKindlmann]

I have loved these short and sweet videos so much. Thank you for the care and enthusiasm that has gone into making them. I hope science results from JWST, when they arrive, can be similarly communicated, so everyone knows that JWST was a great investment!

[tbird-zr]

These need to be longer. It's like being teased. In multiple ways.

[rayoflight]

The preparation for the James Webb telescope has been the polar opposite of the Hubble Telescope in terms of collaboration on the testing of the entire rig.
The money invested over the decades on the JWST are on par with an advanced aircraft carrier, with a difference: most of the money has been spent on the design and all the out-of-the-box thinking, not only in components and materials.
It is impossible that, seen the capabilities of the telescope, the JWST doesn't proceed with a long string of seminal discoveries soon after its commissioning.
And I mean articles like dark matter, life-harboring exoplanets, CMB multipole, and mysteries around Earth formation, as where the Late Heavy Bombardment come from; or things like intergalactic currents.
I'm subscribed and I've seen all your "Elements" videos; just a word of thanks for sharing these information the easy way here on YT.
Regards,

[ГеннадийШабала-чх]

thank you very much for the information and your work, good luck

[Sheaker]

NIRSPEC is such a magical tool I dropped my jaw three times watching it for the first time. I can't wait....

[wallypaige]

THAT WAS INTERESTING. I WANT TO KNOW MORE. CAN'T WAIT TO SEE WHAT'S OUT THERE.

[maskotep]

Oh dang that final shot of Webb at 5:16 is so nice!

[Dyslexic-Artist-Theory-on-Time]

I predict The James Webb Telescope will see complexity in the form of symmetry or geometry that must have had a time line that started before the Big Bang.

[buckbenelli]

We humans have the technology and intellectual capacity to image distant galaxies and now maybe life, but we can’t come together to defeat a simple virus. I hope intelligent life isn’t looking at us right now, they wouldn’t just laugh at us but might feel we should be extinguished. I hope I love long enough for JWST to deliver.

[Zorastegard]

For me the best in this Channel is Sophia :-)

[ГеннадийШабала-чх]

revive knowledge and set a new time, dream,thank you

[wandkrishna]

I am proud to be a human because of JWST. Can we see JWST through Hubble (I wish to see it in real, not in animation)

[Grundle-buddy]

whats that question, we as humans, aka self conscious creatures all ask about existence?
That question that gets right down to the meaning of us even existing at all?
Why. Why does anything exist at all?
Well, watching this video made me think of something. And I get that this may come off a bit obscure to some people given that the context of this video is about a powerful telescope, and not really about "the meaning of life".
But now, back to what I was saying. The meaning of life question. And mentally going down the rabbit hole of that question we inevitably find ourselves asking why does anything exist at all? Why do even atoms exist? Well, the point i'm trying to make here is, We may not know why the atom sprang into existence, Yet. But because of science like this we now know that elements heavier than hydrogen and helium are literally forged in in the crucibles we call stars.
And we also know that without these more complicated heavier elements we would not exist.
So, we may not know with 100% accuracy why the first simple atoms came to exist, but we do know for sure that we are the, product of a product ( sort of speak) of billions of years of heavier elements evolving over and over again eventually creating humans. That is a fact.
And we know all of this because of cosmology. What questions, will Webb answer?

anyway, just wanted to say that. ok. bye

[ckcwfsn]

TBH we need to vote her as the next NASA administrator.

[a-fl-man]

you need to invest in a vise or clamps to hold your work piece to the table. and use both hands to hack saw. that looked like an accident waiting to happen. probably equivalent to my journalism skills.