Things We've Never Seen
The James Webb Space Telescope Explores the Cosmos
The powerful James Webb Space Telescope promises insight into profound questions that have dogged philosophers and astronomers for millennia. What is the origin of the universe? How are stars and planets created? Is there life elsewhere in the universe? Brian Greene brings together scientists who will use the Webb Telescope to investigate these very questions including Nobel Laureate and Webb lead scientist John Mather, Nobel Laureate comologist Adam Riess, presidential chair of the University of California Santa Cruz Natalie Batalha, and Kavli Laureate Ewine van Dishoeck.
Thursday, December 23 @ 3:00PM EST
This program is free. |
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| | | Newly discovered worlds have smashed conventional assumptions, revealing planets orbiting multiple stars, planets that don’t orbit stars at all, and at least one as airy as Styrofoam. The incredible boom in planetary diversity raises tantalizing prospects for an Earth analog that could harbor life—as we know it, and as we never imagined it. WATCH NOW |
| | | Cosmology is the one field in which researchers can—literally—witness the past. The cosmic background radiation, ancient light streaming towards us since the Big Bang, is poised to reveal when the first stars formed, what happened in the fraction of a second after the Big Bang, and the answers to other bold questions about the cosmos. WATCH NOW |
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