Exciting Results with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope

JWST, the largest telescope in space, detects infrared (heat) radiation, providing information not available to the Hubble Space Telescope.  It allows astronomers to study the birth of stars, newly formed dust in the gases ejected by dying stars, and the atmospheric composition of planetsorbiting other stars.

Among JWST’s most surprising results so far is the veryearly formation of galaxies after the Big Bang.

Speaker: Dr. Alex Filippenko, UC Berkeley