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How close is the James Webb Space Telescope to finding life?

How close is the James Webb Space Telescope to finding life?

FromThe Take


How close is the James Webb Space Telescope to finding life?

FromThe Take

ratings:
Length:
21 minutes
Released:
Jan 2, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

The US space agency NASA launched the James Webb Space Telescope, the largest telescope ever put into space, just over a year ago. Since then, we have been given a whole new picture of the universe – image after image of stars, planets and galaxies, farther into the universe than humans have ever seen. We talk to those who helped put together the telescope about what they have learned and find out how close it really is to detecting signs of life on other planets.
In this episode: 

Stuart Clark (@DrStuClark), astronomer and consultant at New Scientist
Knicole Colón (@superknova), deputy project scientist for exoplanet science at NASA James Webb Space Telescope
Chris Gunn (@thelightandthelens), photographer at NASA

Episode credits:
This episode was produced by Chloe K. Li with Negin Owliaei, Ruby Zaman, Alexandra Locke, Amy Walters, Ashish Malhotra and Halla Mohieddeen. Aya Elmileik and Adam Abou-Gad are our engagement producers. Alex Roldan is our sound designer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's head of audio.
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Released:
Jan 2, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

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Making sense of the world, one story at a time. Host Malika Bilal and journalists from Al Jazeera's international bureaus and beyond share their take on the most important stories every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.