Looking back in time with the James Webb Space Telescope
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- Scott Pelley reports on the James Webb Space Telescope, due to launch December 22. Scientists hope it will be able to see the universe’s first stars and galaxies.
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I can’t even explain how excited I am for this. This should be on every news channel the day it launches.
When can we see the picture of “the birth of creation”
At 7 am est
@@wolf3755 how long is that in light years
Almost 8 hours ago. Ya missed it.
@Hairless Dog Both are very exciting, but the latter is what excites me most.
"Chances are, what we see, we will not understand. The very definition of wonder."
Godspeed Webb. I've been following you for over half of my life. I can't wait to see what wonders await us.
Ooh🤗, you heard that one too. I can't wait
I really hope the launch & deployment goes 100% ok. This is a chance in a lifetime experiment. 🤞🏻
Hopefully it doesn't blow up on launch. 💥 Wats the chance that happens right.
@@braydancoe6265 - I hope not. That would suggest sabotage.
It's been a long time coming. Very excited to see what this thing can do. Here's to a successful launch and deployment.
I’ve known about this for all of five minutes and already my anxiety can’t handle it. God bless the engineers and this mission
lucky you didn't have to wait 25 years
I'm so nervous about the launch. If this doesn't go perfectly, not only could it push back our knowledge of the universe a century but it will literally take decades for NASA to at least secure funding and begin reconstruction efforts again. I can only imagine how the engineers feel...
I mean it won't push back our knowledge.. it would delay future knowledge
@@chrisbruggers8076 thats what he means. Just a different way to say it
U should be more affraid of space junk + dw if this one fails china is already making a better one
They might even find out that there actually never was an Adam and or Eve.....or any God for that matter and it was all just perspective and persuasion
Um up ya they dont talk about the laboratory on it that is going to be powered by solar. . Hope it kablows on the launch. We all know this is a tool to pick out de plor ables. Ka plew eeeee
I am 73 y/o and get excited as a kid just thinking about this. A true achievement for humanity.
I agree! Just try and imagine everything we’ll know in a 1000 years. It’s beyond comprehension
I’m 70 and I always said I wanted to live long enough to find proof of life on Mars. Well, we’re pretty much there. So now I want to live long enough to see boots on Mars, so Elon Musk better hurry up with his Starship……
@BlackholeTtson452 it will be able to see planets in infra red too. With a coronagraph it can block the light from a star light years away and see the light from the orbiting planets, some of which is infra red. But yes, you are right, the reason the chose or is to see red shifted light from the early universe.
For anyone wondering, after the James Webb Telescope's been launched to space, it will need 6 months to start fully functioning, so it will be around June of 2022.
it's a piece of crap
@@rodeoclownobama5796 nobody asked for your opinion
Why so long
@@misterjack9991 No one cares about you peasant
@@rodeoclownobama5796 yeah, we stopped selling them 6 months ago, Chinese made piece of crap 💩 🚽 🧻
As an electrical engineer working on a complex communication system, I can only imagine what they've gone through for the past 25 years, testing and testing, the meetings, the new test plan developments, etc etc etc... must be so crazy to work on something that requires perfect yield and only has one shot to work!
Think about all the advancements in technology that had to be made for this to work too.
We certainly got an out-of-this-world Merry Christmas with the launching of the Webb Telescope. Grateful to everybody who participated and will continue to work on the space explorations.
I love seeing how excited scientists get when talking about their particular field.
Yeah, good to see passion about a field of study that just gets some people excited.
I'm excited to see their discoveries. We need this inspiration in our lives.
As a man who lives and embraces his nerdiness, I speak for all my people. We are very excited and geeking out!
Everyone should be excited as not only will we ever see the first moments after the big bang but also see other signs of alien life in other exoplanets too.
Was building and putting it together actually fun and enjoyable and not tedious though I hope? Because to me it seems that cknstruction part would be tedious and mechanical..
All I want for Christmas is for the James Webb to work.
After travel, deployment, orientation, and testing, it'll be February? until we know it works. I'll settle for Valentine's Day.
I used to be somewhat opposed to the spending on these big science projects when there is so much need in disadvantaged communities in this country. Then I went to Iraq and saw the US’s out of control spending there. That’s when I realized it isn’t science that is siphoning money for education and infrastructure in poor communities. Now I know we could actually have more science and lift up communities. I’m not a “bleeding heart liberal”, just a person that has seen this country and what the government spends money on outside this country.
There's plenty of waste, fraud, and abuse to go around sadly!
What a society we live in where celebrity birthdays get more press than something of this magnitude.
To think 150 years ago we didn’t even have motor cars now we can potentially see the beginning of the universe
Hope we’ll find have some intergalactic neighbours! If they proof in atmosphere of Trappist system I think that’s what they are aiming at.
Yeah because we have motor cars only for 135 years now xD
70 years ago we didn't even broke the sound barrier lol mental to think
I wonder how fast the cars aliens drive are
As an Aerospace and Mechanical Engineer I am amazed by the design. Kudos to the incredible talent that created this. As an amatuer astronomer, I CANNOT WAIT to see the science come in!
Your not alone for sure
Can you explain to us why pilots never have to lower thier aircraft nose to compensate for the curvature of earrth?
@@razam2849 YES! I am happy to see so much interest in this. Our local observatory hosted a NASA Ambassador to talk about JSTW. Had a good crowd and I was happy to see many young people.
Do people ever think that
Our human body is designed to sustain on Earth. our biology, bone density, heart pumping power based on gravity, respiratory system etc..
Imagine habitable planets the size of jupiter, definitely gravity is strong, our bones are brittle for it, the pressure is higher that we bleed out of our 9 holes unlike life that originated there has no problem. We can't even survive inside our oceans depth
@@chickenlittleflatearth423 Newton figured this out in 1687. It's not a mystery.
With all the chaos going on in the world, it’s nice that the human race still has the will and power to progress.
I have been waiting for this ever since I read about it 10 years ago, let’s hope all goes well and the incredible teams have done their job!
Good luck
In my lifetime I was blown away by Hubble's Pillars Of Creation images... my mind short circuits thinking of the potential mysteries Webb could reveal. Godspeed JWST for a safe launch and a perfectly executed deployment
Imagine the details that the Webb Telescope is going to reveal in our lifetime! It's going to be beyond wonder!
What's it going to reveal that you think is going to be of any real benefit to anyone on Earth? Maybe, maybe, future generations will reach the stars, but the odds are extremely against that. I don't think I can recall a single thing that astronomy has discovered that's done anything of real positive good on Earth.
I hope it succeeds, we are only a few days away, for what was a huge wait.
@@atlantic_love you, sir, have no imagination and wonder! We'll see what can be discovered when those pictures come out!
@@atlantic_love It moves our minds forward away from from thousands of years of ignorance and many Gods and all that delusional nonsense where the word "Belief" is the most destructive and dangerous word used around simple gullible and impressionable people. Even today even faker and proven fake churches like Scientology and Mormon, we still lap it up and give money and control over to them and them cry when we find out it was all a scam.
We are part of this universe and the JWT will answer many questions and pose even more like the soil and rock from the moon but its pieces of the puzzle slowly put into place.
Most exciting and relevant to mist i guess is are we alone. It can see and sample planets and atmospheres and what if we find life say within 100 light years, just near by ? What happens to humans being centre of everything then. No doubt this will happen or when we build massive ones on the moon, we will sample those planets of other stars and get the answer and discover the universe is teeming with life where it can form away from radiation and vacuum just like here on earth....
@@sultanmahfries6402 And I will stand corrected when that time comes!
This is amazing! To be able to look this far back in time.. perhaps even to the original launch date
The Ariene 5 did not disappoint. All 107 pins worked. No need to waste fuel spinning this thing. The thing limiting how long this telescope can operate is fuel, which is looking really good right now.
It's such a marvelous time to be alive! having learned so much from the beginning till now and then finding that we now can learn/see 100 times better! I'm gobsmacked!
With all the problems that are facing us today it's easy to think in dark terms, but our science is phenomenal ! It outdoes our more basic tendencies and leads us however reluctantly into times when we can better address our mismanagement of our home.
John you are 100% right Earth
I'm way too old to get this many goosebumps thinking about the wonders this telescope will reveal. Looking forward to the next 5-7 years!
I’m worried that something will go wrong:.. so many moving parts have to work 😨
@@genkisudo true but look how well they did with the Mars roover and the many problems that faced. This has taken decades and hundreds if not thousands of the most intelligent people in that field to build it have faith if anyone can make it work its people like this.
@@midwestmike613 Right on! 👍
@Midwest Mike agreed we need to have faith that everything will go great i'm excited to see what we find out
@@chadgrimes252 the way it sounds it's made it thru a number of hurdles so far. It's in orbit at the location they wanted and it unfolded the gigantic mirrors properly. Next they will align the gigantic mirrors and telescope and get the proper temperature for operating correctly. This should take a couple months on its own and we will maybe see photos by summer.
These people are so amazing. Thank you for what you all do.
I'm so glad it finally flew. I cannot wait for the images.
Can't wait! I am fascinated with Astrophysics. This is going to be huge.
Can someone please explain to me how exactly will this telescope see back in time? Will our creator even allow this? I'm not religious so no arguments. Let's have a civilized chat people.
@@terrrell7798 I think its cuz the planets are far far away from us so we see the past of if i guess..........?
@@terrrell7798 as the sun is 8 'light minutes' away, we in actuality see the sun as it *was* 8 minutes ago. And the sun is relatively close to Earth. As you move out further and observe objects that are light *years* away, you're seeing things as they were *years* ago, as the light entering your eyes left that object years ago. So, for an object 65 million light years away, for example, you're actually seeing it as it *was* when dinosaurs roamed the earth. In effect, looking into the past. Think of something a *billion light years* away; you're seeing things as they were a billion years ago.
Terrrell , I am copying a response that I wrote to another commenter who asked a similar question. I hope it gives some insight. (By the way: no "god" required).
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I'll try to answer your question in a couple ways. If you think about it, it makes total sense.
1. This simply has to do with how light does not move from point A to point B instantly. And the light that we need to see any object has to take time to travel to your eyes to see it.
Visible light (which is simply an electromagnetic wave, no different from radio waves or microwaves) travels at a finite & constant speed. The light that reflects off of any object has to travel the distance to your eyes, which takes some time.
So, you are seeing the object as it was "in the past". That is, you're seeing it as it was when the photons originally got reflected off of it... and those photons are *just now* hitting your eyes.
2. This has nothing to do with the effect of telescopes. In fact, you don't see ANYTHING in "real time". EVERYTHING that you see is delayed.
For example, the light that is reflected off the phone that im typing this comment on has to travel a distance to my eyes in order for me to see it. It is a short distance, so it doesn't take much time. But it does take SOME time.
Im holding my phone about 8 inches from my face right now. So, im seeing my phone as it was about 700 picoseconds in the past.... NOT as it is right now.
And that goes for EVERYTHING that you see.
3. If you think about it, you don't perceive ANYTHING in "real time." As im touching my phone, the electro-chemical signals take some time to travel from my fingers, up my spine, and to be processed in my brain. I "feel" my phone as it was "in the past" (probably on the order microseconds of delay), not how it is "now".
4. Again.... This has nothing to do with the effect of telescopes. It has everything to do with the fact that light takes a finite amount of times to travel. And we of course can't perceive anything until that light finishes travelling that distance and finally gets to our eyes!
No doubt. I've been waiting for years to see this. Can't wait until this thing gets up there. I have no doubt everything will go smoothly. Failure is not an option on this mission. I want all of those magnificent questions answered.
Can't even imagine the tension and anxiety those marvelous engineers and scientists are going through.
It's taken so long and the design is so convoluted I wouldn't doubt it if they let go of their expectations a long time ago and are more thinking about the next one. James Web seems like learning experience of a bad design concept. Remember it was designed like two decades ago, we've come a long way.
@Hugh Mass-stiff lmao you're a 🤡
The rocket launch will be several minutes of terror for everyone involved. Then there is the hundreds of steps before it’s fully deployed
@Hugh Mass-stiff you fool, you can literally see all the solar system planets, galaxies, and nebulae with detail from Earth. Just get a telescope. To see more galaxy and some nebula detail, pop a camera and set a long exposure.
@Hugh Mass-stiff what? I don’t put my full trust in the government, considering their history with my people. The planets literally look like how they are shown. NASA isn’t the only space agency either, there’s like 71 across the world. Some of those countries that has one don’t really fool with the US like that either. Stop living in fantasy.
It's an amazing time in human history I can't wait to see what James Webb will uncover
incredible, what a time to be alive to witness its discoveries!!
The contract I work for has been planning, building, testing and prepping JWST for launch since it's inception. We are so excited to see it launch next week. Thank you for all the hard work of all the wonderful people who have worked on this for so many years.
IDIOTS
Let’s hope the launch goes as planned. To me 10 billion dollars seems pretty expensive for only a 5-10 year lifespan. Aside from that I am excited to see what is learned about our universe.
@@andrejdrame9641 interesting. What exactly is your issue here?
@@andrejdrame9641 Great contribution to the discussion! I'm sure all the people in your life come to your first for your invaluable & brilliant takes & opinions!
@@snowkracker Apple makes more than that in a week from share price fluctuations alone. LOL
Shout out to everyone involved in making this amazing telescope, I hope everything goes smoothly on the 22nd.
> Shout out to everyone involved in making this amazing telescope, (...).
Predominantly women as this movie apparently suggests.
What a piece of politically correct brainwashing.
Thumb down.
@@heniohenrykowski3571 huh? What are you talking about?
Bill ochs went school with my wife and I have been blessed to message with him. Amazing man
One of the finest 60 Minutes programs ever. Thank you CBS and Scott Pelley.
I have had the privilege of seeing this thing in person and it is truly an incredible sight to see. so incredibly humbling.
If it breaks its you're fault
The fact that it gets launched on my late father's birthday make it more special than it already is. :)
Even if the telescope fails, it is a worthy endeavor. For the cost though, I wish it had more fuel for a longer mission.
Most NASA missions exceed their expected life times. Hobble has lasted 3 times longer than expected. Even the little helicopter on the Mars perseverance mission has flown 15 times (it was not expected to do more than 3 flights)
The James Webb telescope has provisions to be refueled. This was done in case either a manned or robotic spacecraft is developed sometime in the future that can go out there and replenish the thruster propellants. If the telescope is healthy otherwise and if it can be refueled extending its mission is possible. And for how long? Who knows.
This is so amazing I’m so excited for the launch and the images to come back in!
I’ve been waiting for 20 years for this. Without a doubt the biggest mission man has attempted in our existence.
You think this is a big mission? Just wait until we have to deflect Apophis with a nuke.
@@onewhostudies6856 Good point. All these "greatest" and "biggest" are just variations on a theme of exaggeration and pointless nerd circle-jerking.
@@atlantic_love pshh. Yeah. Nerds! What do _they_ know, huh? 😏
@@atlantic_love glad you are here in the circle. Lend a hand ( you too Kristy) or two!
@@Slowhand871 You've been talking to Kristy :) He's the chef, I'm the nerd lol.
I truly believe that this will indeed be life changing for humanity! Finally answering the questions of life in this universe! History for all mankind!
Look up the Extremely large Telescope and Luvoir
Really? You are welcome to your opinion, of course. But it's just as likely to not answer anything. That is, Webb won't find any evidence of life anywhere. And scientists will still say, "just because we can't detect it doesn't mean life's not out there somewhere." And we'll continue looking. I don't see this changing anyone's life that didn't work on the project. On the whole continents of Africa and South America I don't see anyone's life changing because of Webb.
@@billt8504 Your lack of vision is common. It's why it took so long for a project like this to become a reality.
@@danf1862 He May lack vision, but he’s right. The JWST may unlock secrets of the universe that will revolutionize astrophysics and cosmology, but that’s not going to matter to the daily lives of most people.
But it also might just show us that we need an even better telescope.
Or it could blow up.
@@justins8802 Supposedly the same thing was said when electromagnetism was discovered. We have no idea what might come from the discoveries that await.
1/12/21 knowing it has successfully launch and has completed maneuvering into place flawlessly, makes me emotional! Thank you for your hard work and dedication. I CANNOT WAIT! Mankind will look back to the moments when the first images came!
This is revolutionary! This is going to be looked back on as something that forged a path for a telescope that can actually see hypothetical planets tens of light years away and hopefully be able to see a real time image of what's happening on the surface. I'm talking so good you can see movement of daily life like we see aerial images of cars on the freeway!
The engineers and scientists that work on these amazing projects that push humanity forward up the tech tree are heroes of humanity.
The thumbnail they chose for this video, totally makes the JWT look like an Imperial Star Destroyer!
Now, JWST has been successfully launched, its sunshield and mirrors have been successfully deployed, and it's well on its wat to its L2 orbit. "Amazing" doesn't even begin to describe this endeavor.
I admire the conviction as she says, None. 8:36 There's no room for error.
I'm so excited for this. Just like there was a before Hubble and after Hubble. There will be a before Webb and after Webb
Time is weird. We can look back in time, but never go there. We cannot see into the future, but we can go there.
And we have fingertips but not toetips, yet we can tiptoe but not tipfinger.
Time is a human construct; ergo it is illogical and "weird."
Time is the biggest illusion of them all
I like that it's only 40 light-years away just a hop skip and a jump.
40 light-years is ~380 TRILLION kilometers away. Our fastest craft so far may top out at 150,000 km/h. It would take about 290,000 years at top speed to get there. And you need to slow down eventually so add another 300,000+ years and your space trek will take at least 600,000 years.
What a fantastic interview. Scott Pelly spoke very well. Asked great questions. Again a great interview. As humans we are all excited. God bless the scientists and engineers. Godspeed to the James Webb telescope and mission.
I'm incredibly interested in what we might find out about the Trappist-1 system. This is a solar system with 3 or maybe 4 planets in the habitable zone and with JWT we will be able to learn more about the planets' chemical composition and just how habitable they are. The system is 39 light years away so it's not any place we'll visit in our life time, but these are the first steps and may lead to human exploration perhaps centuries in the future.
I'm pretty sure that is the very system the last astronomer was talking about as far as getting an atmospheric spectrograph to see what gasses surround each planet and if that is indicative of life. I remember it was huge news when they first announced the number and type of planets they discovered there. It is supposed to be a relatively calm star as far as red dwarfs go. If one or more of those planets are habitable they could be so far an unfathomable length of time. Stars like Trappist-1 being on the light side even for red dwarfs have the ability to live up to 4-5 trillion years.
@Ken Doughman Acording to a reliable source, one of those planets is home to the Clangers.
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@Ken... Dude, dream on, dream on buddy. I'm into science & tech more than the average guy but humans travelling the speed of light is NOT and will NEVER be for humans with flesh and blood - ever.
@@COO415 th-cam.com/video/3WtgmT5CYU8/w-d-xo.html
@@COO415 and if you told someone 200 years ago that humans would fly in airplanes and go to the moon they would say that was impossible too.
Even if it takes 1000 years we’ll leave this solar system… as long as we don’t destroy ourselves before then.
One word: GOOSEBUMPS! Godspeed Webb! 👍🏻
There are 330 single points of failure on James Webb. I’m excited for the potential science that could come out of this, but the stakes couldn’t be higher and more on edge.
If it works, the front page of every newspaper will be praising the designers and scientists behind this project. If it doesn’t, the front page of every newspaper will be questioning why $10 billion was spent on a project that had 330 single points at which it could completely fail.
Fingers crossed boys and girls.
I would rather keep my tax dollars! Lol
@@carolinaboii1 Advancing the knowledge of humans to this degree is veeeeeeery much worth your couple of tax dollars! Lol!
@@carolinaboii1 then you should have elected someone who opposed the JWST, but the majority say yes, so you won’t miss you 12 ish dollars a year hopefully. I don’t like the government, but in reality only governments can afford these projects practically.
@@expungebad then go outside, but or even make a telescope for a couple hundred dollars, and look into the cosmos. You’ll be able to see many of the structure James Webb and Hubble have looked or will look at. Knowledge is priceless, so if you’re so confident then spend the money to confirm it.
@@carolinaboii1 Good morning Elijah. It's normal for some not to want to do the work to advance humanity. Thankfully there are those with vision then do the work to advance on various fronts.
This Whole Webb Telescope Is So Amazing I Am So Excited To See The First Pictures,
You interviewed the civilized (and highly advanced) part of humanity. Great to admire this advanced instrument and be proud to be human again. We need more of this.
sure if you say so....but Im sure GOD is looking down with some disgust as he sees the highly advanced part of humanity looking for life in the universe....billions of light years away, but yet these same brilliant minds will claim that a fetus is not life.
There was a new paper recently that hypothesized that maybe there isn't dark matter and that the it could be gravity acts differently at such a large scope. Scientists still don't know what dark matter is at the moment. Like the report stated, it is simply a term for something that fits into some of the theories that has yet to be defined. I can't pretend to know enough about this as some of the science channels I listen to, and the comments I read are from people that really know astrophysics and I have a hard time keeping up... so this is just my simplistic interpretation.
I think everyone should go on some of these channels that discuss astrophysics and nuclear physics just to get a sense of how smart these people really are. We need to appreciate experts in the scientific fields.
I heard of that paper, it was talked about on some podcast I listened to, I like they called it "dark matter" & said it was just a placeholder because like you said: has yet to be defined. I bet we listen to some of the same science channels. I'm super excited about this telescope, been waiting for this for years. Have you heard of "The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe" Also Mindscape with host Sean Carrol, he's a theoretical physicist and has a wonderful podcast. What ones do you listen to?
That's a thoughtful interpretation, it gives me more to consider, but before some answers start coming in, isn't this an exciting time to just..I guess enjoy the wander of it?
It's pretty incredible
My guess is that dark matter is the modern equivalent to the epicycles of Ptolemaic astronomy. They were assuming planets traveled in perfect circles, but the observation didn't match that idea. They added epicycles to planetary orbits, which helped for a bit...then epicycles on epicycles. Once we understood elliptical orbits and basic calculus (thanks Newton) it made more sense.
My guess is that there is another layer of math that we haven't been able to understand as it applies to galactic planetary motion, IDK what that is but it just feels like we are missing something again and need the next Einstein to come along with a new perspective.
This is so exciting and absolutely incredible! Such ingenious minds 🤯
"it's going to answer two questions in astrophysics, where do we come from and are we alone" that sent shivers down my spine
I doubt it really answers those, lol just saying
Engineering Brilliance at it is finest! Brilliant Minds!
You can't call anyone brilliant until it works. It's not even launched yet and they are seven years overdue and billions over budget. If it works, I'll agree to your assessment; not before though.
@@billt8504
To even think of such an idea in itself is without a doubt brilliance incarnate.
What a time to be alive!
👍 agreed
Make two 👏😱🪐
When I was a kid our whole family stood in the backyard one night and marveled as we saw Sputnik sail by in the sky. Just a light dot moving across the black sky. Now, in less than one lifetime, look how far we’ve come! And some people eschew science even now! For me, the wonder is endless, unbounded. I’m fortunate to be here in this time.
So happy to know my future kids and grandkids will be here in a time where we have such a telescope. I hope I live long enough to witness some of the discoveries. 😍
*~ One has to remember that one can only see what is a reflection of how finite & mortal we are in comparison to the infiniteness & immortality of space & time.
*~ So no matter how powerful a telescope or microscope humans invent, it will always reveal & show only what is absolutely & relevently relative to our visible existence.
*~ In addition, it may seem like there is no other life in the universe, but it only seems that way because it is only the finite & mortal reflection of our existential realm.
*~ All the life we need to know is right here with us already.
It’s been a long journey already for the JWST, and it hasn’t even taken off. It’s a joy to see that it’s taking off soon
I’ve not heard about this before but now I’m SO excited for this! How absolutely amazing 😍
This is long awaited and I can’t wait to get the results back from this. Hopefully we will see some amazing discoveries. I get excited about the things we might discover that we didn’t expect. What’s a little scary is that once sent it’s “unrepairable”. We need some good news and success in the country! Things like this bring us back to reality amidst much division.
Actually, Elon Musk could probably get Starship out to it; it's only 1/50th or so of the distance to Mars....
This is for earth. Not America! But I understand what you mean.
I've been pumped about this for a long time. If everything works I think our minds will be blown in the coming months.
This segment had me grinning from ear to ear. Simply cannot wait for launch. Big thanks to the bright minds seeking the unknown!
0:45
Was really sure I was looking at a Star Destroyer for a second...
This is something that should excite everyone. Can't wait for all the cool stuff we will find out about the nature of reality and universe with it.
these scientists seem happy.
i do like to see excited scientists!
I'm glad this was funded. Many other Federal programs should have been cut to fund this.
We’ll said!
love how Amy Lo says, when asked 'how many of those pins can fail,' she spits out, without hesitation, "not one."
I am so excited I have been waiting on this for 26 years and the day is almost come this is going to be awesome for humanity
This is so awesome I can't wait to see all the pics this super telescope shows!!!!👍great job on completing this project!!
Great interviews, I’m so pumped for the launch of these device into space.
We have been hearing about this for quite a bit I hope the day of the launch goes smoothly for the better of humanity seeing through depth of space.
We are now seeing the results of the spectacular photographs taken by this telescope. Wow!
Wow, actual journalism. Good for you CBS!
It’s kinda sad it will only last 10 years if it’s successful. Hubble has been working for 30 years which is amazing. Maybe in 10 years they’ll get a plan to refuel it.
Starship to the rescue!
That may depend on the success of those 10 years!
For sure, it can't be hard these days for SpaceX to send up a refueling supply ship. It's only a million miles away. Mars is much, much further.
@@ryen7512 Mars is extremely hard to get to and it's a large planet with it's own gravity. This is a lone telescope that from what I heard is not designed for any kind of docking or refueling.
Hubble was thought to last 15, and look at the rover missions that have gone on for years! Lets hope for the same with WEB.
Wow.. Let’s all hope and pray it works so we may expand our knowledge and understanding of our universe by leaps and bounds. Of course, it’ll likely also lead to more questions (since we don’t know what we don’t know) but that’ll also be exciting and eye-opening.
finally been wating for this since my child hood days
The space between stars is not empty space, but vastness of fullness connecting everything in the universe like a web 🕸
I'm huge into space and science videos so I didn't learn anything new here but for a 60 Minutes story this was impressive. For someone just hearing about the James Webb for the first time this is a good breakdown.
Yep. For once, they did a random act of jernalisum at 60 minutes!
This decade will be monumental for space astronomy. In addition to James Web ST, the Nancy Roman telescope is expected to launch in 2027. And NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission launched on December 9, 2021 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
...and (hopefully) Hubble will keep chugging along too!
I am so much looking forward to the 22 of December and the first images of the cosmos from this amazing telescope !
I’ve been waiting for this thing since I was in middle school and I finally am able to see what this will bring
Getting 10K pins to pull in perfect synchronicity and the uber hi-tech parasol to deploy correctly to the millimeter at a million miles distance is the reason the costs are so high. It pays to remember, for those skeptical enough to question space endeavors, that a dollar spent in space development returns to us many times over back here on Earth. Bravo! to all involved.
How does it return to us many times over back here on Earth?
Helluva lot more betterer than a coupla Trill wars here & there, the feeding of the MIC beast & grifter’s pockets. Imagine that, productive. Skyscrapers, Gemini, Apollo, & everythang.
@@atlantic_love Consumer-level items/products that are borne out of space program research. For example, Velcro (not a very poignant example, but you get the idea).
That gold plated main mirror as well!
Such a well-made video, the host is amazing and asks perfect questions!
I have a question ., what is the info from the jwst going to do for everyone. can I buy gas for my car
@@stevesmith2553 it will answer many many unanswered questions about space and our origin, did you not watch the video?
@@stevesmith2553 Hopefully, it will help us find more humility.
So many brilliant people on this program wow
What a life!!! We live in some very interesting times! I’m excited to see how this plays out 🤞
Can't imagine how everyone working on this is feeling now.. we are living through history.
Looking forward to the James Webb updates.. what will we find 🤯
When's the launch?!
I am absolutely excited to see this telescope finally come to fruition, and I very much hope this mission is completed without an issue, but to have a Scientist say he's 100% confident is a political answer.
I love the fact this was launched on my sons first Christmas will always remember this 🇬🇧
I can't freaking wait! I have been waiting about 6 months since I learned about it.
I sure hope nothing goes wrong, like Hubble. I'm very stoked for this!
Maybe we'll see something so profound that humans will begin to exist in harmony with each other and our planet.
With the world grappling with a pandemic that a considerable chunk of people believe is a conspiracy theory, unfortunately I doubt that harmony will happen.
@@duremsteel1642 I've always thought the only real end to racism is if we discovered an alien species. Suddenly being black/white/whatever would no longer be so foreign compared to an Alien species.
@@jefftee448 there will always be racism. Human beings are tribal and will always need to hate someone. Only way hate and prejudice ends is when the human race goes the way of dinosaurs.
Human beings will always be racist.
@@jefftee448 racism only is temporarily curbed when everybody has a common enemy so yeah aliens might do it for a while....
This is just unbelievable and this is my first time learning about this.
Been waiting for this since forever, the launch date is approaching fast.
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Thanks,but still i'm amateur Astrom;beliver overwin but respect bounderi's in space'!
Fingers crossed, everything will go as planned so one day, we will see some spectacular things from the past! Good luck, Webb! :)
So excited to see what Webb uncovers!!!
This is a science experiment that could truly rewrite everything we have theorized about the very early universe. It has the potential to be to cosmology what the isolation of Deoxyribonucleic Acid was for our understanding of life. This may be a key to understanding what set the universe on its present course, and its ultimate destiny. It is an almost unprecedented moment in scientific discovery, when literally nothing is off the table.