How the Webb Telescope Sees Back in Time

On Christmas Day, 2021, NASA launched the James Webb Space Telescope into orbit a million miles from Earth—a huge and insanely ambitious machine, billions of dollars over budget and 14 years past deadline. Now, as the telescope completes its first year of capturing astonishing images of the universe as it was just after the Big Bang, its creators discuss why so many things went right. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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How the Webb Telescope Sees Back in Time is an episode from Unsung Science by CBS News.

This episode is 43:09 long.

This episode was published on Sep 29, 2023.

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