What is mind boggling is we have no idea what real size of the universe is, lol. We are simply guessing based on many questionable theories. The concept of a "big bang" was intended to be an insult, lol.
@@mitch_the_-itch Wrong... the TERM 'big bang' was intended to be an insult. Coined by Fred Hoyle who (as an adherent to the 'Steady State' theory of the cosmos) disagreed with the theory of an expanding Universe - the concept of which was not dreamt up to be an insult to Fred Holye/Steady State, as you stated. But anyway, he was wrong, so the 'joke' is on him.
10:00 The illustration of a grain of sand held out at arm's length blocking out hundreds of galaxies in Webb's 'Deep Field' image really brings home the immensity of the universe and how tiny the Earth and our Solar System is!! Thank you for this excellent video!
Aa astronomer once said you could fill an Olympic swimming pool with sand and each grain of sand represented a Galaxy.. then imagine the number of Stars and Planets.
@@xavierdaume2757 Fantastic analogy, thank you! For years astronomers thought there were about 200 billion galaxies in the universe. They now say there are at least 10 times that - 2 trillion galaxies!! Of course there are probably even more than that. Staggering to contemplate!
The concept of “cosmic noon” is so spiritually evocative to me. The idea that the period of star formation in the universe is already in the downswing, that we live in a “cosmic evening” is so melancholic and beautiful. But it also puts everything into perspectives. By most models the universe is still in its infancy, so you could say that star formation in general is just a brief stage in the ultimately much longer and vastly different lifetime of the universe.
I think developing the tech for making microchips is closer to our technical pinnacle, although even that is far behind current classified materials development. Up until the wafer fabrication tech, things like rocket engines were also pivotal.
not really, there will only be more and more discoveries. Now we are at a primitive state, we cannot even leave the Earth. Imagine in 100,000 years or 100,000,000 years (if there are any humans still alive).
@@nextlevelenglish5858 This is scary but also quite motivating. We are at a stage of human history where planetary wide, (seemingly) instant, transfer of information has only just become the norm. We possess objects in our pockets that can provide for us things our ancestors could never have dreamed of - ordering food by app to be delivered in less than half an hour, listening to any song ever recorded, using it as a torch (!). All of these innovations are less than a generation old. Consider what we are a part of in our lifetimes, simply by existing? A time period that will be remembered until, and maybe beyond, the extinction of homo sapiens? This gloomy winter seems more manageable in that perspective.
I shed a tear looking at those photos. How lucky are we? How many men and women who came and passed before us could have only dreamed of this... Incredible
@@drbright10 Pity that you have such a narrow perception. "We as a human species", not as an artificial intelligence, but as living, breathing human beings of flesh, blood and bone, and natural, genetically inherited intelligence. The Dr. doesn't seem to be too bright.
We look for answers in space and declare it a miracle. Yet we have not figured out the power of our soul and spirit. The very scientist that tell us about the universe fail to tell us what happens after life. I think the The universe is enough to tell us that we are more than what we think we are. We are created by a maker who holds the universe in his hands. He started time and no man can stop it. We are project in time. One that starts and ends. We need to come to Our savior...His name is Jesus.
I don't think most people are aware of or comprehend just how incredible an engineering and scientific achievement that instruments like JWST and Hubble really are. Popular culture isn't particularly clued into subtle scientific issues generally, but I think we could do better as a society in helping to celebrate the true scale of achievement that these instruments represent. It's very hard to equate human achievements and the relatively worth and value of these achievements when they are in distinct fields. I mean, I've often wondered how we would try to 'sell' the magnificence and value to human knowledge that someone like Einstein and relativity represent when compared to say; elite sportspeople like Usain Bolt or Michael Phelps or Tiger Woods, etc. I mean, IS there any common ground we can find to accord some relative or objective value these people and their works provide to humanity? I guess it comes down to what we value as a society and what we are trying to achieve. In that sense, I think there's never going to be a proper objective measure - we're talking about things like entertainment, pride, aspiration to better ourselves and our physical attributes and skills versus more abstract values and properties like the accumulation of knowledge, the enrichment of 'Encyclopedia Galactica', hell perhaps even increasing our chances of surviving cosmic or planetary calamity and spreading this phenomena of life elsewhere. TL;DR: I wish more people valued knowledge.
@@bradandhisbass3008 i remember mark robber said NASA only got 0,5% of US budget while military and defense got 65%, imagine those 65% alocated to poor people
This is so beautifully done. The section that zoomed out to show the quintet moved me to tears. The awe-inspiring nature of these photos and the fact we are even getting the pleasure of seeing them is truly something. Trying to comprehend the scale and beauty in our universe is something extremely special and videos like this capture it so elegantly. Spectacular.
I can’t say enough how much I appreciate that you don’t sensationalize your videos. It’s simply a beautiful narration of fascinating facts that allows us to fully explore our wonder.
I remember when Hubble launched, the trauma, the heroes, then the jaw-dropping images. 20 years ago little did I realise how long it would take for JWST to actually launch, and little did I realise THIS video series would be the one I was waiting for MOST as the data comes in and unravels itself. Looking forward to the next in this series, thanks Alex. I do hope they can get MIRI fully operational again and this sentence ages badly, and quickly. It would be amazing if Starship is successful and we can start throwing up more space telescopes, at much more publicly acceptable costs.
And to think that JWST is basically just warming up. Love seeing how Webb, Hubble, and other star gazing instruments will work together to expand our knowledge on the universe! And hears to the next 20 years of space exploration 🥂
No doubt bud. I remember the early days of Hubble well. I remember many times when my jaw would hit the ground with some of those early images... yes... those were the days... and now these are the days of James Web.
@@shep9231 I was born in 2000, around the time Hubble started sending images back to us. I'm so happy to be able to witness the era of the James Webb telescope. Feeling that same excitement seeing these images of our almost inconceivably vast universe. I'm so excited for the future of the imaging of our universe. This stuff makes me so excited.
But do you remember the extreme disappointment when it was discovered that Hubble's mirror had been ground to the wrong prescription resulting in initially fuzzy images?
This is the information I was waiting for last fifteen years, mind blowing vdos, it brings me hope that within my lifetime I will be able to know a lot more about the creation. I owe a lot to you especially for this piece of your brilliant description of the vast expanse of universe as seen through the Hubble and James webb I will always wait for more such miraculous discovery . Thank you a lot.
The James Webb telescope is one of those few examples of humanity getting to ”have nice things”. Edit: I did not mean this as a negative comment on humanity’s shortcomings. Given everything that could go wrong that didn’t because someone on this project made sure it didn’t is why we get to have this amazing telescope.
Hubble is amazing yes, but just check out those deep field shots from James Webb. And it only took 12.5 hours to get the exposure it needed. Dang! That is one insanely fantastic camera.
Im amazed that people are amazed. 🤣 These things are just toys for the rich and are of no benefit to the wider population. Nobody really cared about space apart from the goons who recieve funding for pretending that there is something out there for "us"
It truly humbled me to know what a minute spec I am in the universe but can understand how much beauty and power there is out in the universe! Thank for such interesting facts and putting into words to easily understand
Same. I think about all the scientific discoveries and political changes I'll miss. I try to comfort myself by thinking about future generations wishing they were alive during my slice of history. Don't stop dreaming, but remember that our time is just as special, just different.
Just keep in mind that everything will seem mundane to the people who live during it. I bet if you told people 1000 years ago what we would experience now they'd react the same.
I remember when my friends and I used to speculate about NASA landing on the moon, that was it possible. Then one day we watched it on television. It's quite remarkable how much things change through one's lifetime, we're at the cusp of some remarkable advances, if we don't all die from climate change.
One of the attributes I love most in your presentations is the delight and sense of sheer wonder in your voice. That adds immeasurably to your professionally-rendered videos.
I love the difference in technology between the two. Hubble was peak of technology at the time, and it's lasted us this long. Providing great pictures, and vast amounts of information. Then, we threw JW up there, with modern technology and understandings. The difference is just..beautiful.. It makes my technophile heart cry from joy, appreciation, amazement, and awe. And makes me look forward to what they'll send up in another 40 years from now
I really appreciate how you always tell us a statement and then explain how/why we know it e.g. how scientists figured out the little red galaxy is the oldest we've seen so far. it sounds simple but not everyone takes the time to give even a small explanation of the science behind things like that! my understanding of astronomy is very limited so the little explanations that are probably obvious to a lot of people are very much appreciated by me 😂 you're doing fantastic work educating & engaging people with your videos! thank you Astrum!
It definitely makes you wonder how much further/older the universe is. Quite amazing and boggling! I used to say we are a spec of sand, but at this moment I feel like an atom... maybe a proton is next, lol Thanks for your time and effort in making these terrific videos!
Ikr lol.. knowing that we are nothing compared to the universe makes me want to gives more appreciation to things which i'm usually ignore.. We are soo unbelievable small.. how can we, as mere human being, be soo arrogant and soo self-centered.. Just how grand is The Creator of all those stars..
Negative (Skylar) Nancy Alert! Lol. All of your comments/replies are empty and argumentative... none actually state contradictory facts or are valid retorts. Everything has to do with both time and distance.
we have only found a fraction of what is really out there. we are still learning daily about our own planet. for exploration to continue, we need not to cause WW3, so we can continue the search for meaning of the universe and our lives.
Nice. I also loved the Webb pictures of Jupiter and Neptune. The amount of pure science and discoveries waiting is mind boggling. Oh yeah and the picture of an actual Exo planet and atmospheric spectrum of an exo planets…
Man I've been anticipating this series since launch day. The view that the JW has already given us of the cosmos is immense, I am thrilled to see what there is to come.
This is so fascinating, and amazing how far humanity has come. it's literally uncomprehendable how big this universe is. we really don't know how old this universe is but it's crazy how much we can see 🤯
For about a year now, i've been watching youtube videos about astronomy almost everyday. I'm going to buy a telescope and hopefully i can learn about astronomy more and more. I was an awful student, even when i tried, the information that was given to me didn't really stick in my head and i always had bad grades. I gave up on school and started working, since physically i'm a very good worker. But if there is one thing in my lifetime i want to learn as much as possible, it's astronomy. This is just amazing! Thanks for the videos Astrum :)
I can watch Space Webbs images for hours and still not be bored. I have been waiting for it to launch since I was a kid. I first read about it in 2012 in a library book. Back then I had very little understanding of the Universe, so I kept reading more books on it. And with each book I read I became more curious. All those Images of hubble were already beautiful enough. But JSWT made it even more colorful and amazing.
I've watched a bunch of JWST videos on TH-cam - from professional uploaders to amateurs. Your video has been the most informing and mind blowing video I have seen by far. The zooms and comparisons to Hubble along with the detailed information and diagram has genuinely made me a better, more informed human.
This is simply breath taking, I feel so humbled and small. I am so hopeful for the next 50 years of scientific progress, what wonders we will someday find. Man this is just incredible.
I recall an interview with someone from NASA who clarified that the 12.5 hours for the Webb about the deep field image was the total exposure time from two of Webb's instruments observing simultaneously, and so it really took 6.25 hours to create the image. Don't quote me on that - I haven't been able to find anything about this anywhere online, and even NASA's own description of the image on their website only mentions NIRCam. I wish I remembered where exactly I heard it (I swear it was an official interview), but it's possible I'm misremembering something or the person being interviewed was mistaken.
I think that for the time being, it doesn't really matter much. Going from week and a half to less than a day is a massive leap no matter the actual time. Not only does it allow us to see things better, it drastically increases the number of different things we can look at.
Jwst is definitely a marvel of our time and I'm excited to see what it reveals! However the E.L.T. currently under construction in Chile is specifically for the exploration of exo-planets expected to be operational in 2026! Exoplanet exploration just memorizes me the thought of finding life hopefully before my time is up only 43 so hopefully many more years
It's amazing how our species has both created and removed the fiction from science. Imagine how advanced society could have become if the motivation had been true benevolence and not simply the vulgarity of profit.
This video is so well done. The visuals are amazing and it's obvious that you've put a lot of time and effort into conveying complex information into layman's terms. This is my favorite channel right now and I do have to say that your voice is just fantastic for this type of content. Love everything you put out!
God I wish I'd been able to continue my astrophysics degree. This is SO cool! Im such a sucker for space, I cannot WAIT to see what James Webb can do over the next few years. I've started reading the three body problem series and it's really good. I highly recommend it for anyone looking for a good sci-fi series. I'll warn you, though, by the time you finish the series your existential dread will probably be a lot worse. :^)
I, too, love space and astrophysics-it has fascinated me since childhood. I am also just about to start reading the Three Body Problem trilogy. Cheers and -happy- dreadful reading to you!
The simple fact that the farther we look the earlier we see is so profound, mind boggling. Astronomy is the study of the distant past. We are never seeing what is far away, we are seeing what was long ago.
$10 billion might sound like a lot but, considering that it took about 30 years to build and launch, that's about $1 per US citizen per year. I think it's a bargain. Edit: beautiful and informative video - thanks!
3:26 I may seem crazy saying this but if you could try zooming in the webb's image of pillars of creation and you will be able to see (to the left hand side horizontally and at the middle vertically) something resembling the structure of a hand...yeah it may be a coincidence...but just look at it!!
This stuff is so amazing that it honestly doesn’t even seem real… and it’s crazy how we all go about our day like none of this exists …. It’s ironic to do mundane tasks of life once you know this all exists lol
I have been watching your videos for years and this is my favorite one yet! I was blown away by how deeply we can zoom into space! I'm most interested in studying that galaxy that you circled in red. If JWST is able to focus on that for longer than 12.5 hours, I would love to see what that image would be. Great video!
I'm sad I was terrible at science and math in school bc astronomy is so breath taking. That won't stop me from binging on videos like these and continuing to follow our amazing space journeys!
13:18 ...an old galaxy like ours and the young galaxies that formed just after the big bang." Our galaxy would be young, and galaxies that formed just after the big bang would be old.
I was thinking about when Astrum would release a JWST video. Astrum always delivers with the level of detail we want :) P.S. Would be nice if you could to do NASA’s Europa Clipper mission down the line.
What upsets me most is being born at a time when we can just start to perceive the cosmos, but not a time when I can go see it for myself. We may never get that far. But seeing those deep field shots, knowing that all those points of light are other galaxies, fills me with a level of wonder I haven’t felt since I was young. I wonder how many harbor life.
I doubt we’ll go that far tbh 🤷🏾the older generations have already killed our earth and left gen z and newer generations to fix the problem that they cause, and people is still stuck like 2 centuries ago, look at the iranian government forcing women to be islam and would kill any woman for showing 1 cm of hair
if you did, you would probably see just more universe and we our planet Earth would be on the "edge". It's possible that universe is infinite in 3:rd dimension and even though it's infinite it is still expanding, since infinities have always more rooms for more guests.
JWST's edge-of-your-seat launch & deployment, plus the subsequent stunning images and discoveries represent a shining light of human capabilities in otherwise collectively dreadful times
This is part of the Kardashev scale. We, as a collective intelligent civilization, need to overcome our political differences. Think about 50K years ago. We colonized. We found power in groups and consumed power. We looked at our neighbors and they had something we wanted. We learned that if we attacked and killed them with rocks, and then missiles, we can take what we need to grow and be more strong. In time we learned that we could instead trade resources instead of killing. And we do this today. We have what is on our shelves, in the stores, from another country, and a another individuals work. But we still killed our follow man to take that they have (politics). So our people can expand and survive. The strong still try to kill the weak to take. Or at least control. We are still 50K in our past. The only thing that has changed is the size of the rocks. We have science. We have Carrier groups. We have bombers. We have subs to sneak in. We have huge amount of well train troops that know how to kill. Who has more strong, NATO? Is Russians wrong. Nope. Putin is wrong to try to take from a weaker nation. But this is war games. To your point. We all must accept our follow man. And look at them as human. Get over our political differences. If you have then help those that do not. That is the start. The solution to this war is simple. Help Russian citizens. Many went to Kazakhstan, Serbia, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Georgia, and Finland. Let them know we love them too?
@@ken90004 What makes you think our civilization is intelligent? Humans are the only species on earth that wipe out other species. Build weapons of mass destruction that can annihilate entire cities and leave the land uninhabitable. Create viruses that can pretty much kill and wipe out everything. The carnage we do to ourselves. Doesn't sound very intelligent to me.
10:22 that gravitational lensing is crazy! I find it amazing that light can travel 13 billion years without hitting anything, same goes formzhe light of stars in the regular nightsky, photons traveling millions of years to finally hit your eye, crazy 😁
Videos like these remind me again of just how small we really are. It's difficult to comprehend how big the universe really is. I often question myself whether there's an end to it or if it's infinite. The human mind just isn't able to comprehend with this
I was so touched by this video that I started shivering and crying... Universe is so perfectly beautiful, and we're so small... Our lifes and struggles looks like nothing compared to this infinite and eternal for us space filled with astounding mysteries. I don't think I can express myself properly... This feeling is just unspeakable. Thank You so much for such a touching video ❤️ I'm so proud of the most enlightened part of mankind who made tools which made us able to look at the beginning of the time :)
Thank you SO much for these updates. I genuinely appreciate and love these videos because I have always wanted to pursue a career in the same industry. And seeing the new breakthroughs only fans the fire of my inspiration and drive.
Frankly, it's starting to be a little disturbing that we got used to relying on a "scale" when we determine how far the object is based on the redshift.
There is no edge...no beginning or end. All is infinitely smaller and infinitely larger...forever, into the past and future and all dimensions. Infinity.
Great summary/popular science in just 15 min! Visually perfect, and just adding info "the old way", that is someone, a voice, explaining what the pictures show. Not adding fancy music or sound and no selfies! (I'm into this "science thing", physics, myself, maybe getting old, but so good when focus still is on pure science.)
That deep-field image from the JWST is undoubtedly the most important photograph I’ve ever seen. Possibly the most important photograph humanity has ever seen - so far. I’m sure there will be many more to come. I had a conversation with someone just a couple of weeks ago, talking about this image and how it’s impossible for our brains to fully comprehend the time scale represented by that teeny-tiny fraction of the sky, this person dismissed the photo, saying scientists were mistaken since everything in the universe was created 6,000 years ago and all those galaxies were just different-colored stars. I find it sad that there are still people who cannot grasp how much more amazing the universe is than the small little magic fairy man that religious people worship.
I agree with everything about your comment. It's much harder for the human mind to wrap around the true time scale of our universe, so the "6,000 year old universe" thing is a lot easier for many people to comprehend. But I'd much rather be absolutely baffled at the true scale, size and time, of our universe than believe a much more close minded explanation.
Why can the awe and wonder that the unbelievable scale of our universe inspires not be reconciled with the belief in a divine creation? Is it so much of a stretch to believe forces outside our comprehension could be breathing such cosmic beauty into existence? I think downplaying the scale and complexity of the cosmos is an insult to God.
I agree with everything except the magical fairy man part. The only thing the JWT has done for me is prove that we know less than we thought we do. The Big Bang was literally disproven. I think God is quite a bit more complex than we think. You’re the one who can’t seem to process more than some bearded dude in the sky when it’s a whole lot more than that. You awe at the immeasurable and beautiful universe with clear structure and perfect rules and absolute beauty but fail to see how it could be true art.
That telescope is a monumental feat of engineering, super impressive work
Mind boggling complexity- and it ALL worked as planned! Apparently the influence of Murphy's Law is attenuated out at the L2 point. 😉😉
With a hole in it already 🙄... Why can't we have nice stuff?!
@@zsbacskai7331 best paint by numbers EVER!
The cracks are starting to show.
@@billmilosz I can do it quick, I can do it cheap, or I can do it right. Pick one.
The sheer gargantuan scale of the universe is absolutely mind boggling.
What is mind boggling is we have no idea what real size of the universe is, lol. We are simply guessing based on many questionable theories. The concept of a "big bang" was intended to be an insult, lol.
@@mitch_the_-itch Wrong... the TERM 'big bang' was intended to be an insult. Coined by Fred Hoyle who (as an adherent to the 'Steady State' theory of the cosmos) disagreed with the theory of an expanding Universe - the concept of which was not dreamt up to be an insult to Fred Holye/Steady State, as you stated.
But anyway, he was wrong, so the 'joke' is on him.
@@mitch_the_-itch questionable theories vs Gawd did it. 😳
"Guessing" makes no difference. Even if it has "borders", then it means that our universe is inside some other space.
@@sunnyjim1355 is that not what he said?
10:00 The illustration of a grain of sand held out at arm's length blocking out hundreds of galaxies in Webb's 'Deep Field' image really brings home the immensity of the universe and how tiny the Earth and our Solar System is!! Thank you for this excellent video!
to me its the Blue pale dot
@@refrigeratedpc3633 Yes, that is also a mind-boggling image and shows just how small Earth is in the cosmos.
That was really mind blowing. A SINGLE grain of sand.
Aa astronomer once said you could fill an Olympic swimming pool with sand and each grain of sand represented a Galaxy.. then imagine the number of Stars and Planets.
@@xavierdaume2757 Fantastic analogy, thank you! For years astronomers thought there were about 200 billion galaxies in the universe. They now say there are at least 10 times that - 2 trillion galaxies!! Of course there are probably even more than that. Staggering to contemplate!
The concept of “cosmic noon” is so spiritually evocative to me. The idea that the period of star formation in the universe is already in the downswing, that we live in a “cosmic evening” is so melancholic and beautiful. But it also puts everything into perspectives. By most models the universe is still in its infancy, so you could say that star formation in general is just a brief stage in the ultimately much longer and vastly different lifetime of the universe.
@MisterJoshuaTree The death of stars could just be the beginning of cosmic puberty...
Its depressing as all hell. The idea of the big freeze is so sad.
Ty for sharing your perspicacity Joshua😎
@@leeshepherd834 Thanks for your passive - aggressive specious fatuity anent Joshua's musings😎
@@ElegantAmaranth bro put away the thesaurus
This telescope is truly the pinnacle of human engineering in the 21st century. I can’t wait to see what the next 50 years will bring.
If we are even here. Lol
I think developing the tech for making microchips is closer to our technical pinnacle, although even that is far behind current classified materials development. Up until the wafer fabrication tech, things like rocket engines were also pivotal.
Lucky if I get another five years but they will be amazing that's for sure. Enjoy.
Pinnacle? It can barely even see visible light.
@@ClaimClam You might as well be using your eyes if you wanted to see visible light in space.
Isn't it awesome and yet amazing to be alive now? So much great science. I am humbled and so thankful.
not really, there will only be more and more discoveries. Now we are at a primitive state, we cannot even leave the Earth. Imagine in 100,000 years or 100,000,000 years (if there are any humans still alive).
extremely humbling. wow. i tried to fathom.. 13.1 BLY away.. , just wow. Those images from Webb... stunning.
@@nextlevelenglish5858 This is scary but also quite motivating. We are at a stage of human history where planetary wide, (seemingly) instant, transfer of information has only just become the norm. We possess objects in our pockets that can provide for us things our ancestors could never have dreamed of - ordering food by app to be delivered in less than half an hour, listening to any song ever recorded, using it as a torch (!).
All of these innovations are less than a generation old. Consider what we are a part of in our lifetimes, simply by existing? A time period that will be remembered until, and maybe beyond, the extinction of homo sapiens? This gloomy winter seems more manageable in that perspective.
Nothing
I just hope the next world war doesn't end it and knock us back to the Dark Ages. 🤨
I shed a tear looking at those photos. How lucky are we? How many men and women who came and passed before us could have only dreamed of this... Incredible
Now imagine if we manage to reach there
(We as the human species)
@@flyingonionring tf do you mean “we as in the human species” do you think a dog is reading your comment or something
@@drbright10 Pity that you have such a narrow perception. "We as a human species", not as an artificial intelligence, but as living, breathing human beings of flesh, blood and bone, and natural, genetically inherited intelligence. The Dr. doesn't seem to be too bright.
Yeah but the universe doesn't actually look like that to us In visible light. Only infrared, so because of that i can't help but feel disappointed 😂
We look for answers in space and declare it a miracle. Yet we have not figured out the power of our soul and spirit. The very scientist that tell us about the universe fail to tell us what happens after life. I think the The universe is enough to tell us that we are more than what we think we are. We are created by a maker who holds the universe in his hands. He started time and no man can stop it. We are project in time. One that starts and ends. We need to come to Our savior...His name is Jesus.
I don't think most people are aware of or comprehend just how incredible an engineering and scientific achievement that instruments like JWST and Hubble really are. Popular culture isn't particularly clued into subtle scientific issues generally, but I think we could do better as a society in helping to celebrate the true scale of achievement that these instruments represent. It's very hard to equate human achievements and the relatively worth and value of these achievements when they are in distinct fields. I mean, I've often wondered how we would try to 'sell' the magnificence and value to human knowledge that someone like Einstein and relativity represent when compared to say; elite sportspeople like Usain Bolt or Michael Phelps or Tiger Woods, etc. I mean, IS there any common ground we can find to accord some relative or objective value these people and their works provide to humanity? I guess it comes down to what we value as a society and what we are trying to achieve. In that sense, I think there's never going to be a proper objective measure - we're talking about things like entertainment, pride, aspiration to better ourselves and our physical attributes and skills versus more abstract values and properties like the accumulation of knowledge, the enrichment of 'Encyclopedia Galactica', hell perhaps even increasing our chances of surviving cosmic or planetary calamity and spreading this phenomena of life elsewhere.
TL;DR: I wish more people valued knowledge.
I think Einstein would probably say at this point. Could not that money have been used to help the poor.
increasingly knowledgeable people become increasingly harder to control
@@mikeellchuk3787 its crazy how they do this very nice....now lets take that 10billion dollers and do some good here on our own planet
@@bradandhisbass3008 i remember mark robber said NASA only got 0,5% of US budget while military and defense got 65%, imagine those 65% alocated to poor people
Northrop Grumman and Ball Aerospace & Technologies. MURICA!
This is so beautifully done. The section that zoomed out to show the quintet moved me to tears. The awe-inspiring nature of these photos and the fact we are even getting the pleasure of seeing them is truly something. Trying to comprehend the scale and beauty in our universe is something extremely special and videos like this capture it so elegantly. Spectacular.
I can’t say enough how much I appreciate that you don’t sensationalize your videos. It’s simply a beautiful narration of fascinating facts that allows us to fully explore our wonder.
I remember when Hubble launched, the trauma, the heroes, then the jaw-dropping images. 20 years ago little did I realise how long it would take for JWST to actually launch, and little did I realise THIS video series would be the one I was waiting for MOST as the data comes in and unravels itself. Looking forward to the next in this series, thanks Alex.
I do hope they can get MIRI fully operational again and this sentence ages badly, and quickly.
It would be amazing if Starship is successful and we can start throwing up more space telescopes, at much more publicly acceptable costs.
Are you from the UK?
And to think that JWST is basically just warming up. Love seeing how Webb, Hubble, and other star gazing instruments will work together to expand our knowledge on the universe!
And hears to the next 20 years of space exploration 🥂
No doubt bud. I remember the early days of Hubble well. I remember many times when my jaw would hit the ground with some of those early images... yes... those were the days... and now these are the days of James Web.
@@shep9231 I was born in 2000, around the time Hubble started sending images back to us. I'm so happy to be able to witness the era of the James Webb telescope. Feeling that same excitement seeing these images of our almost inconceivably vast universe. I'm so excited for the future of the imaging of our universe. This stuff makes me so excited.
But do you remember the extreme disappointment when it was discovered that Hubble's mirror had been ground to the wrong prescription resulting in initially fuzzy images?
Fun fact: What we call the "universe" isn't even a fraction of what it acutely is, We just know it from what we can see
That's why it's called the observable universe
@@Ebola-Jones Yep
"isn't even a fraction" any proof for that?
@@seeker4trvth No , it is all estimation and "good guesses" depending how literally you want to take "isn't even fraction"
@@seeker4trvth Proof: The universe is expanding faster than the speed of light.
My favorite part was when the NASA scientists said: It's Webbing time! and then Webbed all over the universe.
James Webb is one of the most telescopes of all time.
and also madness combat hank said: it's hanking time!
Or when Jack said it’s jacking time and Jack all over the universe
Lmao. I don't know why that's so damn funny to me. I think I have dain bramage.
They really slung rope all over the 'verse!
One of the best space channels on TH-cam in my opinion. Absolutely fascinating and well narrated.
THE best
Been following him since 10k subscribers.
until you discover the electric universe.
KURGAZART
This is the information I was waiting for last fifteen years, mind blowing vdos, it brings me hope that within my lifetime I will be able to know a lot more about the creation. I owe a lot to you especially for this piece of your brilliant description of the vast expanse of universe as seen through the Hubble and James webb
I will always wait for more such miraculous discovery . Thank you a lot.
Well Kishorech you could learn a lot about how we and the universe were created in the Holy Bible, telescopes do not have the answers.
The James Webb telescope is one of those few examples of humanity getting to ”have nice things”.
Edit: I did not mean this as a negative comment on humanity’s shortcomings.
Given everything that could go wrong that didn’t because someone on this project made sure it didn’t is why we get to have this amazing telescope.
@Jeff -66 yep... and then morons who can't comprehend any of it just call them all frauds/actors.
And still there are humans throwing stones at eachother.
Just a few examples? I could list 100 almost without trying. It would take days to make a full list.
If you think there's just "few exemples" of this, maybe YOU are just focusing on bad things.
@@thecrazyjoe250 I know I haven’t, how about you?
I'm still amazed by how powerful Hubble is to this day
Indeed. They should keep it operational as long as possible.
Hubble is amazing yes, but just check out those deep field shots from James Webb. And it only took 12.5 hours to get the exposure it needed. Dang! That is one insanely fantastic camera.
Im amazed that people are amazed. 🤣 These things are just toys for the rich and are of no benefit to the wider population. Nobody really cared about space apart from the goons who recieve funding for pretending that there is something out there for "us"
@@joeblogs5012 Not only are you wrong, you must be the life of every party.
We should sell Hubble to the Chinese.
It truly humbled me to know what a minute spec I am in the universe but can understand how much beauty and power there is out in the universe! Thank for such interesting facts and putting into words to easily understand
my heart soars at the future we're creating but i'm a little sad i may not get to experience everything.
Same. I think about all the scientific discoveries and political changes I'll miss. I try to comfort myself by thinking about future generations wishing they were alive during my slice of history. Don't stop dreaming, but remember that our time is just as special, just different.
You might reincarnate.
Just keep in mind that everything will seem mundane to the people who live during it. I bet if you told people 1000 years ago what we would experience now they'd react the same.
@zeromgYou will dont worry. Eat healthy and exercise regularly, time and age aren't real. ♡
I remember when my friends and I used to speculate about NASA landing on the moon, that was it possible.
Then one day we watched it on television.
It's quite remarkable how much things change through one's lifetime, we're at the cusp of some remarkable advances, if we don't all die from climate change.
One of the attributes I love most in your presentations is the delight and sense of sheer wonder in your voice. That adds immeasurably to your professionally-rendered videos.
I love the difference in technology between the two. Hubble was peak of technology at the time, and it's lasted us this long. Providing great pictures, and vast amounts of information. Then, we threw JW up there, with modern technology and understandings. The difference is just..beautiful.. It makes my technophile heart cry from joy, appreciation, amazement, and awe. And makes me look forward to what they'll send up in another 40 years from now
I really appreciate how you always tell us a statement and then explain how/why we know it e.g. how scientists figured out the little red galaxy is the oldest we've seen so far. it sounds simple but not everyone takes the time to give even a small explanation of the science behind things like that! my understanding of astronomy is very limited so the little explanations that are probably obvious to a lot of people are very much appreciated by me 😂 you're doing fantastic work educating & engaging people with your videos! thank you Astrum!
Obsequious
@@MrShanester117 thanks for your input lol
same I like it
It definitely makes you wonder how much further/older the universe is. Quite amazing and boggling! I used to say we are a spec of sand, but at this moment I feel like an atom... maybe a proton is next, lol
Thanks for your time and effort in making these terrific videos!
Ikr lol.. knowing that we are nothing compared to the universe makes me want to gives more appreciation to things which i'm usually ignore..
We are soo unbelievable small.. how can we, as mere human being, be soo arrogant and soo self-centered..
Just how grand is The Creator of all those stars..
It has nothing to do with time. It’s distance
Negative (Skylar) Nancy Alert! Lol. All of your comments/replies are empty and argumentative... none actually state contradictory facts or are valid retorts.
Everything has to do with both time and distance.
@@Toyotajunkie ikr we literally measure big distances by lightYEARS
we have only found a fraction of what is really out there. we are still learning daily about our own planet. for exploration to continue, we need not to cause WW3, so we can continue the search for meaning of the universe and our lives.
Wonderful video as always Alex. Your enthusiasm is palpable and contributes so much to the excellence of your offerings.
Nice. I also loved the Webb pictures of Jupiter and Neptune. The amount of pure science and discoveries waiting is mind boggling. Oh yeah and the picture of an actual Exo planet and atmospheric spectrum of an exo planets…
Man I've been anticipating this series since launch day. The view that the JW has already given us of the cosmos is immense, I am thrilled to see what there is to come.
This made my night, beautifully made video. Subscribed
This is so fascinating, and amazing how far humanity has come. it's literally uncomprehendable how big this universe is. we really don't know how old this universe is but it's crazy how much we can see 🤯
For about a year now, i've been watching youtube videos about astronomy almost everyday. I'm going to buy a telescope and hopefully i can learn about astronomy more and more. I was an awful student, even when i tried, the information that was given to me didn't really stick in my head and i always had bad grades. I gave up on school and started working, since physically i'm a very good worker. But if there is one thing in my lifetime i want to learn as much as possible, it's astronomy. This is just amazing! Thanks for the videos Astrum :)
and if my grammar is incorrect, sorry about that but my english isn't perfect :)
“Now, you might be disappointed by how small it is,” that’s what she said
someone get this man some likes😂
I can watch Space Webbs images for hours and still not be bored. I have been waiting for it to launch since I was a kid. I first read about it in 2012 in a library book. Back then I had very little understanding of the Universe, so I kept reading more books on it. And with each book I read I became more curious. All those Images of hubble were already beautiful enough. But JSWT made it even more colorful and amazing.
Me too i want to know if we go up up up in space or down that will be a mystery
Thank you for the very entertaining and informative video. Nice scripting and well presented.
I've watched a bunch of JWST videos on TH-cam - from professional uploaders to amateurs. Your video has been the most informing and mind blowing video I have seen by far. The zooms and comparisons to Hubble along with the detailed information and diagram has genuinely made me a better, more informed human.
Out of this world, and inspirational! Thank you for your hard work, explanation and efforts. What a gift you have. Cheers from England.
I'm so excited to see the photos that come back over the next couple decades. truly incredible.
This is simply breath taking, I feel so humbled and small. I am so hopeful for the next 50 years of scientific progress, what wonders we will someday find. Man this is just incredible.
I recall an interview with someone from NASA who clarified that the 12.5 hours for the Webb about the deep field image was the total exposure time from two of Webb's instruments observing simultaneously, and so it really took 6.25 hours to create the image. Don't quote me on that - I haven't been able to find anything about this anywhere online, and even NASA's own description of the image on their website only mentions NIRCam. I wish I remembered where exactly I heard it (I swear it was an official interview), but it's possible I'm misremembering something or the person being interviewed was mistaken.
I think that for the time being, it doesn't really matter much. Going from week and a half to less than a day is a massive leap no matter the actual time. Not only does it allow us to see things better, it drastically increases the number of different things we can look at.
My capacity for awe does not reach the magnitude of the circumstances we find ourselves in as conscious observers of the universe. Overwhelming.
It’s so cool to see all the NASA scientists shooting Webb. Very epic!
Jwst is definitely a marvel of our time and I'm excited to see what it reveals! However the E.L.T. currently under construction in Chile is specifically for the exploration of exo-planets expected to be operational in 2026! Exoplanet exploration just memorizes me the thought of finding life hopefully before my time is up only 43 so hopefully many more years
It's amazing to think how much science has improved, the universe is so f-in beautiful and we are soooo small it almost hurts my head.
The fact that this is only part one excites me to no end
Was waiting for this, thank you for starting this journey with us. To me you are one of best docu makers!
Keep your formula, it's getting you there!
One of humanity’s great achievements
I could watch videos like these for hours, and I'm just about to
It's amazing how our species has both created and removed the fiction from science. Imagine how advanced society could have become if the motivation had been true benevolence and not simply the vulgarity of profit.
One can dream. However, this world is "money over everything."
I say this all the time!
@@frustratedmillennialz Money is just a measuring tape to measure resources.
The need for greed is terrible .
@@frustratedmillennialz I wish you were wrong, but you are not.
This video is so well done. The visuals are amazing and it's obvious that you've put a lot of time and effort into conveying complex information into layman's terms. This is my favorite channel right now and I do have to say that your voice is just fantastic for this type of content. Love everything you put out!
So beautiful, powerful and mysterious.
God I wish I'd been able to continue my astrophysics degree. This is SO cool! Im such a sucker for space, I cannot WAIT to see what James Webb can do over the next few years. I've started reading the three body problem series and it's really good. I highly recommend it for anyone looking for a good sci-fi series. I'll warn you, though, by the time you finish the series your existential dread will probably be a lot worse. :^)
I, too, love space and astrophysics-it has fascinated me since childhood. I am also just about to start reading the Three Body Problem trilogy. Cheers and -happy- dreadful reading to you!
M gonna rush to watch it coz of u
@@CrazyLinguiniLegs I really hope you like it! The reveals are worth it, because the ideas the author presents really sound like they could be true!
@@anuraagsrinivasan3292 I'm so desperately hoping the show is gonna be good. :)
You sparked my interest enough that I just ordered the first audiobook. I've been looking for a good sci-fi. Thanks for the recommendation.
Thanks!
It truly feels like a privilege to be alive and witness this era
I'm sure it is for lack of knowledge, but this give me an eery scary feeling, my goodness I feel sooo small now.
we are but atoms in a mite thats on a brow compared to the universe. it is truly terrifying
The simple fact that the farther we look the earlier we see is so profound, mind boggling. Astronomy is the study of the distant past. We are never seeing what is far away, we are seeing what was long ago.
Agree. See my post above regarding thoughts about the "light-year" terminology.
We are also seeing what is far away.
@@mrnicktoyou We are seeing what WAS far away ... and is now farther away.
@@JohnnyAngel8 it could be now closer.
$10 billion might sound like a lot but, considering that it took about 30 years to build and launch, that's about $1 per US citizen per year. I think it's a bargain.
Edit: beautiful and informative video - thanks!
The United States just gave Ukraine 100 billion for war. That should be illegal.
A much better bargain if you add in the millions of illegal aliens.
Imagine how much more money we would have for things like these if all countries put aside their differences and lowered their military budget
European citizens too. ESA launched it for them and shepherded it precisely into the correct orbit.
@@informalchipmunk5775 Actually military technology has led to many of the breakthoughs in space exploration.
What an AWESOME piece of equipment. I am so blown away by the pictures and the narrative behind them.
3:26 I may seem crazy saying this but if you could try zooming in the webb's image of pillars of creation and you will be able to see (to the left hand side horizontally and at the middle vertically) something resembling the structure of a hand...yeah it may be a coincidence...but just look at it!!
It’s amazing but we shouldn’t forget that we are made of stardust, We are apart of all of these so it makes so much sense if something resembles us
Hi! Goodnight everybody.
😆😆😆
🔥🔥😁😁
Damn I'm stealing this joke
This stuff is so amazing that it honestly doesn’t even seem real… and it’s crazy how we all go about our day like none of this exists …. It’s ironic to do mundane tasks of life once you know this all exists lol
we arent any bigger than atoms and perhaps the entire universe is just an atom to something far greater
I have been watching your videos for years and this is my favorite one yet! I was blown away by how deeply we can zoom into space! I'm most interested in studying that galaxy that you circled in red. If JWST is able to focus on that for longer than 12.5 hours, I would love to see what that image would be. Great video!
I'm sad I was terrible at science and math in school bc astronomy is so breath taking. That won't stop me from binging on videos like these and continuing to follow our amazing space journeys!
13:18 ...an old galaxy like ours and the young galaxies that formed just after the big bang." Our galaxy would be young, and galaxies that formed just after the big bang would be old.
I still think my favorite idea is that our existence proves the universe is attempting to understand itself.
As long as you don't mention God, you're happy.
Beautiful video. As a viewer, I can really feel your passion for space through your videos, which I appreciate a lot. It is very inspiring.
I hope that there will be a picture where Webb will be looking at one spot for several days.
I was thinking about when Astrum would release a JWST video. Astrum always delivers with the level of detail we want :)
P.S. Would be nice if you could to do NASA’s Europa Clipper mission down the line.
You can count on it!
Thanks James Webb for hiking out there and snapping pics!
What upsets me most is being born at a time when we can just start to perceive the cosmos, but not a time when I can go see it for myself.
We may never get that far. But seeing those deep field shots, knowing that all those points of light are other galaxies, fills me with a level of wonder I haven’t felt since I was young.
I wonder how many harbor life.
I doubt we’ll go that far tbh 🤷🏾the older generations have already killed our earth and left gen z and newer generations to fix the problem that they cause, and people is still stuck like 2 centuries ago, look at the iranian government forcing women to be islam and would kill any woman for showing 1 cm of hair
I just wish i had the chance to experience all of the things that the human race will create and discover.
It would be so amazing if we could travel there in a blink of an eye.
if you did, you would probably see just more universe and we our planet Earth would be on the "edge". It's possible that universe is infinite in 3:rd dimension and even though it's infinite it is still expanding, since infinities have always more rooms for more guests.
I’m doing a project on the james webb telescope for school. These kinds of videos really help and motivate me even more! Thanks
Let's go! Thanks for the hard work
JWST's edge-of-your-seat launch & deployment, plus the subsequent stunning images and discoveries represent a shining light of human capabilities in otherwise collectively dreadful times
I like how this channel, with it's titles and thumbnails doesn't use clickbait
imagine if we put all our collective effort and money into building more things like this instead of war and persecution
This is part of the Kardashev scale.
We, as a collective intelligent civilization, need to overcome our political differences. Think about 50K years ago. We colonized. We found power in groups and consumed power. We looked at our neighbors and they had something we wanted. We learned that if we attacked and killed them with rocks, and then missiles, we can take what we need to grow and be more strong. In time we learned that we could instead trade resources instead of killing. And we do this today. We have what is on our shelves, in the stores, from another country, and a another individuals work.
But we still killed our follow man to take that they have (politics). So our people can expand and survive. The strong still try to kill the weak to take. Or at least control. We are still 50K in our past. The only thing that has changed is the size of the rocks. We have science. We have Carrier groups. We have bombers. We have subs to sneak in. We have huge amount of well train troops that know how to kill. Who has more strong, NATO? Is Russians wrong. Nope. Putin is wrong to try to take from a weaker nation. But this is war games.
To your point. We all must accept our follow man. And look at them as human. Get over our political differences. If you have then help those that do not. That is the start.
The solution to this war is simple. Help Russian citizens. Many went to Kazakhstan, Serbia, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Georgia, and Finland. Let them know we love them too?
Sadly, the lust for power is too great for some.
In order for thay we need to be hiveminded
Maybe if we just took all the money and used it to transition all the little boys to little girls and vice versa, you'd be happy.
@@ken90004 What makes you think our civilization is intelligent? Humans are the only species on earth that wipe out other species. Build weapons of mass destruction that can annihilate entire cities and leave the land uninhabitable. Create viruses that can pretty much kill and wipe out everything. The carnage we do to ourselves. Doesn't sound very intelligent to me.
Webb is so precise I think it could actually see John Cena
Nah, not even Webb can achieve that feat
He’s in China you don’t need a telescope to see him
Or even Drax when he is moving so slow that others cannot see him.
R3tard joke
🤣🤣🖐🖐🖐
There had to be a God the way the universe is designed is mind blowing
10:22 that gravitational lensing is crazy! I find it amazing that light can travel 13 billion years without hitting anything, same goes formzhe light of stars in the regular nightsky, photons traveling millions of years to finally hit your eye, crazy 😁
Videos like these remind me again of just how small we really are. It's difficult to comprehend how big the universe really is. I often question myself whether there's an end to it or if it's infinite. The human mind just isn't able to comprehend with this
You should watch the timelapse of the universe that was made 3 years ago, literally existential crisis
we are so lucky to be born at the beginning of the modern world, we will see the future
Isn’t/wasn’t everyone born in their modern era?
And the end
Wonderful ! Gives a perspective on our lives too, how small are we compared to the vast cosmos.
That was awesome Alex. Thank you. And thank you and your brother for all your hard work.
When I get a notification from you, I know I’m in for a treat. Like a piece of chocolate after a long day at work.
Oh. My. God. I've waited for the James Webb and these images since I was 10.
This is gonna be great 👍 👌
Seeing these makes me weep--the sheer size of the visible universe and the possibilities of finding other life is so grand.
lmao
Excellent video, nice detail about something I'm very interested in. Keep up the good work 👏
I was so touched by this video that I started shivering and crying... Universe is so perfectly beautiful, and we're so small... Our lifes and struggles looks like nothing compared to this infinite and eternal for us space filled with astounding mysteries. I don't think I can express myself properly... This feeling is just unspeakable. Thank You so much for such a touching video ❤️ I'm so proud of the most enlightened part of mankind who made tools which made us able to look at the beginning of the time :)
You're having an existential crisis. You're not well-suited to watch stuff like this.
Beautiful
Thank you engineers that worked tirelessly and full of hope on this project.
I can feel your joy dripping from the video. Very well done :)
Thank you SO much for these updates. I genuinely appreciate and love these videos because I have always wanted to pursue a career in the same industry. And seeing the new breakthroughs only fans the fire of my inspiration and drive.
Glad I found you. The physicists, engineers, pilots etc are my rockstars now. My gosh!
Spoiler... There's no images of the edge of the known universe in this video
Thanks for saving my 14:56 seconds of time
Man, yous a fucking G.
I owe you 14mins of my life
Thanks
love bro
The edge of the TV screen is the edge of the universe to some people 😅
Frankly, it's starting to be a little disturbing that we got used to relying on a "scale" when we determine how far the object is based on the redshift.
My favourite part is how the james webb has the exaggerated swagger of a nasa telescope !
Would the JWST be a good tool to look for extra-terrestrial life via examining the best contending planets for geometric patterns?
There is no edge...no beginning or end. All is infinitely smaller and infinitely larger...forever, into the past and future and all dimensions. Infinity.
Great summary/popular science in just 15 min! Visually perfect, and just adding info "the old way", that is someone, a voice, explaining what the pictures show. Not adding fancy music or sound and no selfies! (I'm into this "science thing", physics, myself, maybe getting old, but so good when focus still is on pure science.)
That deep-field image from the JWST is undoubtedly the most important photograph I’ve ever seen. Possibly the most important photograph humanity has ever seen - so far. I’m sure there will be many more to come.
I had a conversation with someone just a couple of weeks ago, talking about this image and how it’s impossible for our brains to fully comprehend the time scale represented by that teeny-tiny fraction of the sky, this person dismissed the photo, saying scientists were mistaken since everything in the universe was created 6,000 years ago and all those galaxies were just different-colored stars. I find it sad that there are still people who cannot grasp how much more amazing the universe is than the small little magic fairy man that religious people worship.
I agree with everything about your comment.
It's much harder for the human mind to wrap around the true time scale of our universe, so the "6,000 year old universe" thing is a lot easier for many people to comprehend. But I'd much rather be absolutely baffled at the true scale, size and time, of our universe than believe a much more close minded explanation.
"Small little magic fairy man"
I swear you all a bunch of salty wankers.
Why can the awe and wonder that the unbelievable scale of our universe inspires not be reconciled with the belief in a divine creation? Is it so much of a stretch to believe forces outside our comprehension could be breathing such cosmic beauty into existence? I think downplaying the scale and complexity of the cosmos is an insult to God.
I agree with everything except the magical fairy man part. The only thing the JWT has done for me is prove that we know less than we thought we do. The Big Bang was literally disproven. I think God is quite a bit more complex than we think. You’re the one who can’t seem to process more than some bearded dude in the sky when it’s a whole lot more than that. You awe at the immeasurable and beautiful universe with clear structure and perfect rules and absolute beauty but fail to see how it could be true art.
In what conceivable way is a photograph "important"? Is it evidence of a murder? Painted by Picasso? What?
10:33 this deep field bend really helps me understand how light travels through the universe and how wormholes work.
I'm interested in what it can see no more than 50 Light Years. Especially any signs of intelligent life.
There is no life beyond earth my friend. Sorry to shatter your hopes, but this is the truth. There are no aliens
Oops! Life or Earth like LESS than 50 Light Years.
@@mrinalkhandelwal9631 As Einstein is claimed to have said; that's a great waste of space. Or something like that.