Building the Cosmic Eye: The Journey of the James Webb Telescope!

This is the epic story of the James Webb Space Telescope, told first-hand by the scientists who developed it. Building the largest, most advanced, and most expensive telescope ever made does not come without its challenges.

[@tmfeldman3990]

Simply put, this could be the most important event we've ever experienced.

[@temporallabsol9531]

We have no idea. Let's see if we get to try.

[@tmfeldman3990]

@@temporallabsol9531 what would you consider our odds?

[@temporallabsol9531]

@@tmfeldman3990 pretty good. If we'd have launched originally. No way - that's why they took their time.

[@tmfeldman3990]

@@temporallabsol9531 it's exciting regardless, I feel like a little kid waiting for Christmas.

[@jaredf6205]

All the best Hubble discoveries were things we had no idea about ahead of time. I’m excited for Webb to answer questions we can’t even consider yet.

[@charleslaine]

Just seven days away from launch. I have knots in my stomach already and I had nothing to do with the JWST. I can't imagine how nervous some of the engineers and managers of this project must be on the eve of the launch!

[@Repz98]

And its launched today!

[@Scott-xw9yt]

By far the best James Webb video I've seen, and there are MANY of them!

[@shena1256]

I hope they find out if we are alone or not in my lifetime! It would be so exciting and scary at the same time! Thank you to all the people who worked so many years on this project. You all are so intelligent and I envy you. I look forward to seeing your hard work pay off!!! I have my fingers crossed for the mission and praying everything goes exactly as you planned!! Can't wait to see what you all come up with next!! 👏👏👏

[@audience7264]

We may confirm that we are not alone, but we will never confirm that we are. Simply because we will never be able to look at every nook & cranny of the universe to confirm this.

[@shena1256]

@@audience7264 true. Gotta get funded!

[@ngamminhao5676]

Nothing to say just amazing ☺️

[@rockraju9005]

R u American

[@ngamminhao5676]

@@rockraju9005 yes dawg

[@lasernine2128]

This is a great time to be alive in human history. I can’t wait to find out everything! God bless everyone who worked on James Webb.

[@rhouser1280]

I say this all the time but it's crazy that some apes from a chunk of dirt, orbiting an ordinary star among trillions of others, are able to see the first light of the universe.

[@ErnestoGluecksmann]

Yeah! Go Team Apes!!

[@rwood1995]

Ironically seeing the light and mistaken it for pidgeon poop interference. Guess thats better than tossing it like our ancestors??

[@jasin9142]

Go sapiens 🔥

[@rhouser1280]

Just watched the launch, can’t wait to see what it sees

[@jasin9142]

It's a win guys 🎉🎉

[@normaasennord4513]

Amazing, a state of the art time machine. What a Christmas present to the world 🌎 launch date 24 December. Fingers crossed 🤞 for a perfect launch 🙏

[@ozzzzy52]

Been hearing about this telescope since it was announced back when I was a teenager. I've never been so nervous for a launch yet :O Godspeed JWST and all involved!

[@aipilot6795]

I’m so excited to see the images that this awesome scientific tool will send back from its place at Earths L2 point

[@Ometecuhtli]

James Webb Space Telescope: The first man made instrument that's as beautiful as the observations that it's expected to make.

[@Military_Archive]

So hyped, fingers crossed everything goes well🤞

[@josiptumapa]

In so excited. I am so so excited.

[@vmwindustries]

The mission is, "Where do we come from, and are we alone?" FN Love it!

[@spacebeetle]

Nail-bittingly awesome. Can’t wait!

[@sammysam2615]

I truly hope all goes right once it actually launches. We'll have to wait and see

[@1draigon]

Let me tell all of the comments from the past, my god was it worth it The pics are not just very informative but also beautiful

[@josiptumapa]

Insane human brilliance

[@FloozieOne]

I remember when Hubble was launched and the expectations then. There was a terrible time as it turned out its mirror was ground wrong and it might never work, but that was repaired 3 years later and its pictures have stunned and entranced me ever since. As the launch of the JWST approached I was holding my breath; there were just so many things that could wrong. Now that the JWST has successfully launched, spread it's sails and warmed up it's cameras I can finally breathe again. But my breath is now being sucked out of me in amazement and awe as it's pictures come in and the interpretations are made.

[@Noob_Khan]

Launched 😀❤️

[@christopherclink6931]

I will be watching; hoping. Fingers crossed all goes well.

[@abjames3098]

178 out of 178... Wow!

[@shahidsss786saleem8]

I am waiting since 12 years. I like this.

[@Deuphus]

Don't be surprised if JWST images seamonsters and of course the gigantic turtles supporting everything.

[@LynxNYC]

I freaking cant wait!!! Hope this beauty works!!!!

[@johnzacharias8630]

Good luck 🤞

[@MrRC-lo4tu]

I was never excited for previous launches of satellites but this one is game changer. excitement is rushing like tsunami through me.

[@JustinMcFly1980]

The more problems we solve the greater we get overall, there are no problems we can't solve when we work together Godspeed.

[@carpemkarzi]

Godspeed and good luck. My fingers are crossed and will remain so until that sucker is at L2, unfolded and receiving light. This can change science forever and will change the way we make space telescope in the future.

[@bluemotion4111]

This is amazing , good luck 👍🏻

[@rahulchangammayum1132]

Incredible.... 😱

[@laeequenadvi4746]

It will go where no telescope has gone before. It will work in infrared spectrum. To allow us to see not allowed before. This revolutionary concept. Allow too look in distant galaxies.

[@sylviapapp8812]

Wonderful !

[@unebonnevie]

Incredible science and engineering!

[@VIKASHSINGH-hf3kt]

cant wait more for that another amazing moment of human history after Hubble when i was not born. really very lucky to be alive one of the very amazing and hopeful era of human history.

[@christianhernandez726]

amazing i’m speechless

[@katiejean5879]

I am so excited about it!!!

[@wingzfan102]

This is an incredible video

[@hashimbilal]

Just Incredible...😍🤩

[@14Jbaez]

LET MY MAN SMOKE HIS CIGAR!

[@syazlanosman5012]

It also has a side mission to look into other planets in the solar system beyond Mars

[@joed1950]

"It's shrinkage, I was in the pool" --George Costanza from The Seinfeld show. James Webb is such an amazing engineering feat. It will work just fine. But, why can't humans get to L2? I think rather than getting to the moon next we should send people to L2 and back.

[@FrosteMelon]

L2 :)

[@nyujun]

At L1, the telescope sees on both sides big heat sources: the sun, and the earth plus the moon.

[@joed1950]

@@FrosteMelon Thanks. Correction applied.

[@rustycherkas8229]

@@joed1950 L1? L2? Man, I'm glad you're not responsible for the orbital mechanics of this launch! 🤣🤣 (jk... I make these kinds of mistakes constantly!)

[@Thatguy-yi1rx]

I’ve been waiting years the moment Is finally here I can’t begin to explain the passion I have for the secrets of our universe even though sometimes I can’t understand half of it I would like to state that this is a great time to be alive some positivity at last after 2 years of covid crap

[@SpaceSoups]

2:00 "James Webb will go where no telescope has gone before." Gaia: Am I a joke to you?

[@alexanderthreedee4866]

We live in really Great times!

[@dave-d]

Better hope no one has nicked the parking spot at L2! And good luck avoiding all the space junk on the way out. Praying for a smooth ride. Go JWST!

[@thembazulu7765]

Human Ingenuity at its utmost best!!!!!

[@anactaneustheeleventh2542]

This is incredible stuff, I really want to see what this telescope can do, as an enthusiast and writer of these things myself i look forward to the day when these pictures arrive. I also think looking into host stars is the key to unlock life dwelling planets, our sun I think is unique from other stars in our own galaxy, finding a similar or same star as ours could have a planet that is similar or even better than earth. We’re looking for life, then let’s look at the source, which are stars.

[@Paperbutton9]

this is so exciting

[@zandvoort8616]

We need to start constructing space telescopes in space off the ISS.

[@johnnova724]

To boldly go where no man has gone before...

[@wizzardofpaws2420]

I think I speak for us all, WE CAN"T WAIT!!!

[@chalimsupa6603]

after all this testing and delay, it will be a nightmare if something suddenly snaps and the whole thing comes crushing down... i really hope and pray that this was not rushed and we really get it right... all the best🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@ozzzzy52]

1996 - 2021 ... I'd say that's not rushing things

[@nonyobisnes5638]

I hope the answers revealed from the findings of James Webb will dispell all the awful religions that humans have been warring over for countless centuries!

[@StephenDuncan]

@8:03 to 8:20 I realized another major point of failure. This is excruciating. I want this to work sooooo bad, but the complexity is way off the charts

[@Value_Pilgrim]

Sounds like a titanic in space! When something is too complex and a few things if they go wrong can spoil everything...then the odds are stacked against you. Wish you luck guys. Hope you succeed by pure chance and have your plan B, plan C etc in place.

[@shahzadaslam384]

Good luck James Webb fly safe, it could we would be the first civilization who will see the first light

[@PiedFifer]

More than astronomy, much more, is the lesson from building (and financing) JWST is that reason is an absolute- that feelings are less than unimportant in building a great achievement - that true emotions, especially pride, are important only AFTER achievement.

[@jazzyp1671]

Congratulations to NASA and ESA for the successful launch today. Go Webb!

[@VirtuelleWeltenMitKhan]

good luck I hope for the best

[@bhaskar5883]

Plz bring back Curiosity channel in TATA sky, missing the channel.

[@brianmiller179]

Seems like a light sail. What keeps it from getting pushed out of the Lagrange point?

[@zounds010]

The force acting on the sunshield is not enough to push JWST out of its orbit.

[@ririemarilyn]

Thank you smart humans

[@jaimecoburn1339]

I only give this 50% of success.

[@zebonautsmith1541]

I expect it to Discover Life.

[@wieslawkruczala3205]

Is it true that the density of berillium is 1/3 of aluminum as stated in the video? I think there should be 2/3. What parameter of strength is 8 times bigger in beryllium than in steel? Young's modulus?

[@iamnotmad2649]

Better be workin

[@lowmax4431]

14:50 all too well.

[@tmnpop710]

I dont want to know about Cosmic formation, I just want to verify the sign of aliens

[@TheOicyu812]

I hope JWST finds evidence of a Type III civilization's Dyson Swarm.

[@anandagaire5929]

DECOLAJ / LIFT OFF , From a Tropical Amazon rainforest to the age of time itself, James Webb begins a voyage back to the birth of the Universe. -Rob Navias

[@engrjolo1631]

As an Engineer, I feel insignificant because I cant contribute something great like this. NASA Engineers are truly best engineers

[@whirledpeas3477]

I truly hope JWST works perfect, but I realize it's so complicated and could and probably will fail.

[@howardhopkinson]

The fact that at Earth's L2 point, if anything goes wrong it can't be fixed means the potential for a failed mission is very high. Obviously, I hope that doesn't happen, but I'm so nervous.

[@sparkmanuk]

Shame they never built it for a larger fairing, would have saved a lot of time instead of having to make it fold up so much.

[@zounds010]

The 5.4 x18m fairing on Ariane 5 is the largest available. They would have had to wait several years for a larger launcher to become available (Starship, SLS, New Glenn).

[@contanoiutube]

So they did test the unfold sequence in 0g, and they testes that the instruments work in cryogenic temperatures, but did they test that the unfold sequence and the instruments work in both 0g and cryogenic temperatures? 😬

[@MJCrevier]

Shrinkage is definitely a thing

[@5gnetsolutions876]

Are the ETs watching us going to be happy being spied on or rediscovered?

[@h.dejong2531]

JWST is a passive system: it just processes incoming light. There's no way to detect from a distance that this is happening.

[@stephanygoodpasture5541]

If everyone Believes it will happen. It will.. amen 🙏

[@lauralaidler1176]

Share with every one ‼️‼️‼️😳😱👀👀👀👀

[@Teknolojik_Firsatlar_Atolyesi]

don't close the window the sky may come in what can you see the rain of a wet cloud don't close the window bird can come in what can you carry the burden of a broken branch Open the window let your breath out didn't you grow it in your liver For its scent to wash life Open the window Let your voice shake the world Surely it is heard from far away The heart knows itself Arkadas Zekai Ozger

[@graphygaming1529]

Go WEBB Go

[@eSKAone-]

This is a nightmare, they will probably not be able to sleep tight for days after launch and the days before.

[@MozartificeR]

Stimpy :)

[@shohanurrahman2496]

How did they made such a thing??? That's a conundrum...

[@GunterDierickx]

Genesis: "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." James Webb: 'Hold my beer...gotta launch something on his son's birthday 😉"

[@nefaristo]

Maybe the biggest technological single challenge I'll ever see, and such a huge, brave, international effort spanning over two decades... And in a -overall good - documentary about it... you still use *f**ing pounds & fahrenheit* ?!??😱🤦

[@0bzen22]

Hope it works, it'll be amazing. Else it'll be the most expensive piece of junk in space. There's no compromise. Well, there's a bit of wiggle room where it' 'kinda works', but the margin of error is very, very slim.

[@josemariavideos]

We can spying Aliens ? hello!👁👀

[@dgw4049]

Hope this works cause I would feel really bad for all the folks who spent 25 years and $10 billion building a dud.

[@jackdasilva6327]

That Jodie Foster narrating?

[@notsogreat123]

Because this is the most complicated telescope to date. Shoot nasa can't even get solar panels to deploy correctly (i.e. lucy) And we have no system in place to repair this telescope like we did with hubble. So yeah

[@xjonnybro]

when will it launch

[@ErnestoGluecksmann]

Dec 22nd

[@beta_cygni1950]

Dec 24th. The Dec 22 date is now pushed back to fix a communication issue between the telescope and the launch system.

[@ErnestoGluecksmann]

@@beta_cygni1950 as long as it doesn't blow up, I'm good with any necessary delays. That's $10 billion sitting there and decades of work sitting there!

[@beta_cygni1950]

@@ErnestoGluecksmann I totally agree!

[@Luisr777]

How do those mirrors get cleaned with billions of space dubrie 🤔

[@h.dejong2531]

Space is very empty: JWST will encounter micrograms of dust per year, on average. Asteroids are a potential problem: we haven't found all of them yet. But the chance of being hit by an asteroid is very low. Since the beginning of spaceflight, we haven't lost a spacecraft to an asteroid impact yet.

[@Rain.Dance.]

🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞please please work WEBB😫🥺😭🙏🙏🙏💛

[@petrovski9439]

The univers must be invisible for us cause make people think about the only question : I'm starting walking step by step the way to death if I born? so why im here??

[@johnbaker3745]

I hope they have insurance on it.

[@Luisr777]

How do you know if there the first stars 🤔 if space never ends 🤔. How can you study a bang if it happend 1millions of years ago it can't be frozen in time if our time don't stop here?

[@unfixablegop]

Orogami.

[@peaceLove777Love]

Is it me..?but space is full of robots now, at least our solar system

[@bingosunnoon9341]

This is not about building the telescope. Where are the people who grind and polish the mirror?