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.
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[@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.

[@plasmateardrop9427]

I was almost in tears when I saw the first images, I can’t even imagine how emotional and groundbreaking this would have been for someone who dedicated years and years in building/designing JWST

[@tor3203]

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

[@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!

[@jwdeepsky]

I love the people who hate on Elon musk for his space exploration habits

[@kiansedaghaty7900]

Amen ❤

[@TheStockwell]

@@jwdeepsky No offense intended, but Elon Musk isn't exploring space. He sends cargo and satellites into orbit as a business. His lofty aim is to be FedEx 2.0. He'll do it, too. But the exploration of space and the advancement of human knowledge isn't what he's in it for. Best wishes from Vermont 🍁

[@amangarg2754]

@@TheStockwell I believe the same and what I further feel is his Mars ambitions are just meaningless, at least for the time being. If humans really were to shift to Mars in the coming future, I guess that would require a lot of innovation shifting the cycle to at least 100s of years.

[@jwdeepsky]

Well he says that his number one goal in life is to make humans an interplanetary species, so you're telling me he's lying? How do you know he's lying

[@Zaihanisme]

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

[@joebullwinkle5099]

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!

[@240695m]

I like that... Just watched Johnny Haris's recent upload on the tensions escalating with China, and I was thinking about how much we'd be able to accomplish if we all came together instead.

[@ronkirk5099]

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

[@lindaj5492]

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?

[@ampeg187]

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.

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

"Reflect upon the Past. Embrace your Present. Orchestrate our Futures." --Artemis 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ "Before I start, I must see my end. Destination known, my mind’s journey now begins. Upon my chariot, heart and soul’s fate revealed. In time, all points converge, hope’s strength re-steeled. But to earn final peace at the universe’s endless refrain, We must see all in nothingness... before we start again." 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ --Diamond Dragons (series)

[@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

[@raguvaran_eternally]

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

[@executivesteps]

And gals too.

[@jeffl977]

Astounding. What an achievement.

[@CptFitzgerald]

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

[@DavidMartinez-ot4fe]

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

[@Brickwilliams]

Ikr, I’ve got so much appreciation for these people

[@fratercontenduntocculta8161]

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.

[@megamind_2222]

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.

[@havaneseday]

Incredible. Absolutely incredible. ❤️

[@hydraxisfrimon9785]

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

[@khurramkhurshed9427]

James Webb super interesting discoveries 😊❤

[@SaMuRai_VeNoM_X]

Amazing stuff 💙

[@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! 🕯🌏

[@MULAMIGZ]

Amazing world 🌏

[@0eon419]

This is the only thing that matters. Thank you, everyone

[@karllieck9064]

It's funny how often I hear the speculation that some aliens might be hostile when we are one of those hostile aliens.

[@Im_shiven]

Following from my childhood ❤

[@Coolnesski]

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

[@ioanbota9397]

Realy I like this video so much

[@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.

[@dantennison1153]

At 2:34 We will find things like Caffeine and alcohol and water ice; the things of life! I love it!!

[@Immortal_Ethos]

What is mind boggling is the fact that the most advanced telescope in humankind (JWST) is Elementary in design and technology, when compared to our universe. I mean, Earth is literally a speck of dust in the cosmos and Humans are smaller than that, and the Elements the Universe is made of are even smaller.

[@arcadia5607]

Webb is the first telescope that actually showed rings around youranus.

[@wardhemstock1893]

Well put!

[@user-xh9iz3uw6j]

(JWST) Just Wonderful Space Telescope

[@samuelj2408]

All this hype over this telescope, we had those type of images of before, what's new? What new discoveries??? It's all just hype and name dropping..

[@JenniWayman-yx5nr]

What an Awesome God to have created such an astounding universe. Jesus, you are Amazing!

[@Brickwilliams]

We’re really gettin there

[@bojest86]

Incredible, hopeful can explain that universe disain by god and earth for human and everithing inside. ❤

[@slovenasimkaras_ztelegrame3287]

Reminds me of medusa, cell, just larger. What if Aliens left our universe as they achieved enough technological level, like we left Earth & moved to space? Maybe there's another layer we can't detect as we're not yet advanced enough. So it explained why we don't see aliens in universe. 😮😂

[@mrkaufmanMTB]

Finally a video that is not a 10 minute mashup of gibberish with archive footage and a clickbait title and thumbnail 🤬😤

[@picklesdill5462]

BBC Earth Lab you guys make really good videos so please get this guy a better mic I can hear the compression in the audio like day and night. Other then that cool video. 👍

[@komitaskomitaskomitas]

I'm gay

[@ralphjiranek868]

What I cannot understand is that the telescope has discovered a galaxy that is several hundreds of million years old and yet it is claimed that with the expansion of the universe we are seeing only apart of it as it has expanded beyond our view. Yet is stated that nothing exceed the speed of light so how come?

[@Pasha8204]

Need Earth orbit 6m telescope, and orbit Webb 12-15m space telescope...

[@littylitz2340]

I cant wait till the day we can see the laneakia super cluster

[@Pasha8204]

Need 4k 8k video

[@judgetk8327]

I have always enjoyed the pursuit of info about space and I am glad to see that you folks have changed the term: to the edge of the universe to the center of the universe. For decades I have been commenting that any explosion the blast goes out in 360 like a ball but everyone kept saying edge instead of center. So now that you know this is the JWST capable of actually finding the edge of this unfathomable size of the universe or even the other side of it? If you think it's 14 billion to when the bang took place then prudence would say that the universe is actually 28 billion light years in size? I don't have the degrees or phds that you folks have but I have an overabundance of commonsense. If you had all the answers what would you do with that knowledge. But I do like the coverage that the JWST provides. Food for thought.

[@franciscotoscano9924]

I think space is forever, because what’s holding it and what holds that? It has no beginning or end

[@adamhuffman3354]

We are able to see our host body. Not many microorganisms can do that!

[@phil1657]

Is there a reciprocal La Grange point in the other side of the Sun? Do they exist for all the other planets?

[@samuelgarrod8327]

Yes.

[@martincihak580]

Instead of wars. THIS is the thing, tak we should work on together as a mankind. I can't wait, what else will be invented in the future and would be an amazing, to see the world after 100-200 years from now... (sry for my bad english, I'm Czech)

[@iamajeeeep]

whats the music at the start pls tell

[@doktafari]

This JWST is going to reveal what's yonder in space

[@Geojr815]

The JWST has not shown us any type of thing we haven’t seen a hundred times before from the Hubble. It doesn’t even see in visible light. Even the pics of planets in our own solar system are blurry and not the right color

[@capitalt3977]

You don't really understand anything about this, do you?

[@Geojr815]

@@capitalt3977 thanks for the snarky comment like any 5 year old. Now explain why I’m wrong please

[@capitalt3977]

@@Geojr815 Not only is the resolution of the JWST much higher, it purposefully gathers infrared light because it gives a much clearer view of distant objects, much of whose light has been stretched into the infrared spectrum as it has traveled through expanding space.

[@Geojr815]

@@capitalt3977 Yeah but it hasn’t shown us any type of thing we haven’t seen from the Hubble. Just farther out. There’s plenty of clear images of dwarf stars and nebulas and what not from the Hubble. The only thing I think is really special about the JWST is that it can detect the makeup of atmospheres of exoplanets and give us an idea of what those planets are like and if they could possibly hold life

[@danielpushman9597]

Space Pants!

[@njenga1209]

Safe travel James Webb telescope 🚀🛰you are our Hero 🌍🇰🇪

[@samjackson416]

Title is very misleading

[@AngelinaCruz357]

The image of "Jupiter" is a throwback. Why was this picture taken?

[@AngelinaCruz357]

In relevance to the other images taken by this Telescope 🔭 which are a lot further away from the Solar System, why was the image of "Jupiter" so important?

[@AngelinaCruz357]

What has the JWST accomplished that the Hubble Telescope 🔭 didn't accomplish? Except for the fact that these are practically the same images, except clearer in terms of image resolution.

[@AngelinaCruz357]

Why send such a remarkable piece of technology backward in time, instead of forward in time?

[@AoDk673]

Those images are just simply incredible!

[@ShubamitaBairagya-xx6jz]

This Documentary Release in India ?? #Sonybbcearth

[@DwainDwight]

where do we get the t-shirt the young blonde lady is wearing? very cool.

[@hamxaameer4703]

who creates these

[@stevenswapp4768]

It peeves me, the abbreviation. "JWST" has THE SAME amount of syllables as "James Webb space telescope" I know, I gotta pick my battles a little better

[@lindaj5492]

Ummm, ‘telescope’ has three syllables on its own

[@stevenswapp4768]

@@lindaj5492 🤌🤌🤌

[@fuz5567]

​@@lindaj5492so does w lmao

[@ExcaliburCanon-eh3lu]

🥳🤩

[@RONNIESAMSON-ms8ip]

👍💎👍

[@msahakim]

Why caffeine?

[@rocketRobScott]

It’s really funny when the guy says he’s all smiles … twice - and both times he very intentionally DOES NOT SMILE. He’s stealing this video from the infra-red lady.

[@stefanhoffmann8417]

Even thinking about how huge the actual space is, even a mirror the size of our planet would much likely not make us understand how wast and complicated the space is. In space there are gravities, radiations, particles, distances and matters that are unknown to mankind and does not exist in our own known world (our planet). Something we might never be able to see with our bare eyes because our biochemistry and and the way our eyes work, they will never see what they've never seen. Some species do not see colour. We think we observe colour with our eyes but is that really the full spectrum? We are aware that we can't see infra-red lightwaves, so what is their real colour? It can't be red, because we can't see infra-red, how do we assume then it's "red" ? No man or woman on earth can even imagine that colour because we are not able to see it. We can only assume by the facts we know. And that's space exploration. How many times have we opened our eyes through new discoveries through generations by generations. What comes to space, we still know nothing how the universe actually works around us. (Instruments we've created has allowed us to see wavelenghts of light that we cannot see ourselves, but what about the materials in our universe that do not emit radiowaves or any kind of wavelenghts?) A rock or dust or gas or liquid we still cannot see.

[@Khaledf]

The question is *WHAT'S REALLY THE NEW DISCOVERY?* It seems there's none. They're just new pictures. Not that we can say it's a revolutionary discovery.

[@nigh7swimming]

Did you even pay attention?

[@Khaledf]

@@nigh7swimming Yes, I did. Tell me what I miss.

[@Khaledf]

@@nigh7swimming I am telling you there have not been that revolutionary discoveries yet. It's cool to see other galaxies and stars behind the barrier of star dust, but I think it's already gussied.

[@chrisvielle6629]

I think we clearer pics?I watched the video and it didn't really mention any new discoveries. Perhaps the newer telescope in 20 years will discover something new.

[@adamkerns-isley8634]

Here's the real question.... We know that light takes time (speed of light) just like speed of sound so with that said the images that James Webb are capturing whose to say weather it is actually still as it is seen or could it have already went super nove black hole or dust? I'm no rocket scientist or anything special I am as dumb as a box of rocks

[@renanrodrigues5660]

We're seeing the objects how they were in the past, a image of a galaxy 3 million light-years shows what this galaxy looked like 3 million years ago, the light from the earliests stages are still travelling to us. To be looking at the sky, at the universe its actually travelling in time

[@HankKroll]

Atmospheric pressure of Earth compared to Venus: The atmospheric pressure at sea level on Earth is about 1 bar, or 14.7 pounds per square inch (psi). The atmospheric pressure on the surface of Venus is about 92 bar, or 1,350 psi.Apr 11, 2023 Venus currently has 93 times more air than earth. Apparently early Earth’s atmosphere had to be similar to Venus because Earth has limestone layers up to 12,500-feet thick (calcium carbonate) all laid down with plants in shallow seas and vast layers of coal and oil all made with plants using carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen in the process. The only one object out there capable of getting through early earth 3000-mile deep atmosphere and that is the Sirius system. We did the orbit calculations and it matches the Ice Age cycle of 105,000 years. Eight hundred million years ago the sun did not burn as hot as it does today. There is no way the sun could have made the carbon resources. It’s slowly increasing its output over a billion years. Early Earth’s atmosphere was 3,000 miles deep. Now most all that original air on Earth is underground in the form of coal, oil and limestone layers up to 12,500-feet thick. It was all taken down using photosynthesis with light from Sirius A and B over a period of 800-million years, not the sun! Sirius B, the size of Earth and 1.5 solar masses has more gravity than the sun. We matched its speed and it put in orbit around Sirius A. Sirius B orbits at 8 to 10 AU around Sirius A every 50-years. It puts out 100 to 1000 times the light of our sun in the UV spectrum in 350 to 400 nanometers. It’s the only object out there capable of getting through early Earth’s 1000 pound per square inch atmosphere to create life “on the surface of the waters.” Sirius A, being four solar masses puts out four times the light of our sun. It helped thaw the five-mile deep ice sheets of the billion-year Huronian Glaciation. This had to take place before non-cyclic photosynthesis could take place. Sirius B’s intense UV light would have sped up evolution by modifying DNA. When you are driving your car down the road and heating your home with coal or oil you are recycling energy from Sirius A and B, not the sun! The Universe is a living creature that responds to thought and prayer. Read: COSMOLOGICAL ICE AGES by Henry Kroll www.HankKroll.com, www.Trafford,com, www.Amazon,com And bookstores around the world.

[@musamanqele6575]

Interesting read, thank you for sharing. It was very informative

[@windowboy]

The mirror now has a hole init

[@Davemmmason]

THE UNIVERSE IS INFINITE AND ALWAYS WAS AND AWAYS WILL BE

[@keavy2163]

All I see is light and energy… hence the skies are much alive… it’s impossible earth is the only habitable planet

[@luisangelencarnacion2814]

This is OLD NEWS, we're already halfway trough 2023. They should had uploaded more images by this time.

[@Zaihanisme]

My gosh, why don't you figure out a faster way to transmit data eh?

[@luisangelencarnacion2814]

@@Zaihanisme Doesn't change the fact that this video seems like it was filmed a year ago and reuploaded.

[@windowboy]

You need to wait 17yrs. So STFU

[@jawad0511]

Wasn't this telescope going to show us our past

[@executivesteps]

Look at your feet and you’ll see how they looked 6 billionths of a second ago!

[@ddvantandar-kw7kl]

Tell the nasa peoples if any alien encounter in space we should be in a position to decode their language do you understand what i mean

[@frannieswannie6046]

as a photographer who also experiments with an infrared adopted DSLR i strongly question the validity of these converted colour images. how are/can they be verified?

[@ngc-fo5te]

What do you mean?

[@DerMacko]

@@ngc-fo5te because his hobby camera produces black and white images with an IR filter he thinks these state of the art apparatuses should as well. Well these can actually detect multiple wavelenghts in that general spectrum area so the colouring works as in any other false colour imagining currently in use... he probably has a problem with those as well.

[@omsingharjit]

For example if you represent R G B colour of any light source with number 6,7,8 , and you also gets three wavelength of infrared for example IR 1 , IR2 , IR3 then you just needs to lable IR1 with Colour R , IR2 with G and so on for other wavelength of IR for Rainbow

[@timoooo7320]

It can detect multiple wavelengths, so for example they bring a photo of infrared wavelength in black white, and another one in near infrared (which also shows in black and white) and a third one of red light. And then they basically shift the wavelengths, or in other words they give each of these three pictures different colors such as Red, Green, Blue and then they overlay them together. So the nebula doesn't really look like that, the colors are just shifted from infrared to visible light so we can see it

[@omsingharjit]

@@timoooo7320 read carefully what i said.. 👍

[@XXXAVIERXXX69]

Rocks here on earth are planets that never evolved

[@lindaj5492]

How does it stay clean? What damage is likely? I think Hubble has a door that can be shut to protect its lens?

[@mabiamostofa4586]

ANABILA HAVE SUPÀR PAWER ONE ANGEL BABY THAT WILL MAKE REMAMBER EVERY ONE THIS DAY HER BARTH DAY IT WAS HAPANT HAVANLY.❤😮😮

[@Marcousse]

I wonder how long they will be able to collect information from this magnificent telescope. There's got to be a time when JWST will be too far away from Earth for them to collect anything, right? But in the meantime, I'm blown away and very proud to be living to see these outstanding achievements, made by incredible humans. Our never-ending curiosity will lead us to greater heights!

[@cereal-killer4455]

JWST is sitting at Lagrange Point 2 which is a point where the gravities of earth and sun cancel out and mass can’t move away without thrust from that point. So it is not constantly moving away from earth and we have good comms with it

[@ForGlory1]

God is the ultimate engineer

[@WhiterunGuard11998]

Thank you NASA and the American people who paid for this. This will move the frontline forwards for all of us.

[@executivesteps]

European taxpayers paid for the launch and Canadians for some of the instrumentation.

[@WhiterunGuard11998]

@@executivesteps Thank you Europeans and Thank you Canadians :) Buddies

[@AnimeMemers]

bro these look so crazy it looks fake

[@dt7843]

From my point of view, Bubble telescope was better

[@AaronSmith-ed6lf]

🚀🛸🌌🪐🌟

[@Brickwilliams]

I hope anyone working on this stuff makes bank because they deserve it

[@user-le2dl5up1d]

I thought space was dark so how the photo have colors u all lie to everyone

[@tjwilkins7065]

:13 the nebula looks like a Roman soldier with a shield.

[@gnaa1684]

So what was discovered? What does it mean for astrophysics? I mean I'm glad you guys had a great Christmas but I don't want to know that to be honest. This video title is misleading. This is ridiculous.

[@lindaj5492]

7:40 One of the first discoveries: The Ring Nebula has two stars at its centre.

[@CalvinX]

So, what came first in the evolution theory? Was it the bone marrow or the 60,000 miles of blood vessels? How about the heart? Did that evolve before the brain and lungs?

[@leej70]

Try reading a book.

[@CalvinX]

@@leej70 try to explain how the human body came to be....

[@samh-smith2931]

Clickbait! What discoveries???

[@mirandarogers3595]

1 Corinthians 15:1-4 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; 2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. 3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:

[@emonarefin4878]

Religion : Pay

[@omsingharjit]

And suddenly you See crisis in Cosmological Model 😅

[@historian254]

God made the universe beautiful for men to behold his Glory.

[@jamiehesketh5115]

Not sure it's much better than hubble!! Definitely not 8 billion worth as good 😒🤫I think it's not working like they wished

[@goshnodo]

Meh ... All that effort and money and they didn't bother to put a visible spectrum telescope?? Also what's the deal with showcasing a single person as if because of them something occurred...that lady was instrumental in "pitching" not the creation.

[@Tom-xg1kj]

I am going with Jesus Christ when he comes and gives us new bodies and we will be with him forever!

[@executivesteps]

He’s 2000 years overdue! Take a hint - he ain’t ever coming.

[@MrHookahDUDE]

The colours are fake, the pictures come out black and white.

[@omsingharjit]

Not that fake , its brodband colour of infrared Label With Visible colour since you can't see infrared red even white in black and white isn't infrared so it's Necessary to do. This transformation 🌈🌈

[@SeeLight222]

So is the color of the crown of Corona virus 19.

[@MrHookahDUDE]

@@omsingharjit so the pictures from outa space are to to colour?

[@omsingharjit]

@@MrHookahDUDE it depends on the type of Telescope like ir visible light, uv , x ray or may be radio wave .

[@MrHookahDUDE]

@@omsingharjit what about this James Webb telescope? Is it true to colour?

[@DjWellDressedMan]

2023: Every Image by The James Webb Telescope is one less example of Divine Intervention by any God(s).

[@user-ry2qs7xf9k]

*The real images are very boring.*

[@soberman1520]

Your live is boring

[@SeeLight222]

So will be a bacterium without differential staining and a microscope. LOLLLL!!!!!!

[@thorham1346]

Yes they are. By using false colors you can add a lot of contrast and make the details stand out more.