bob reynolds, al jazeera. ♪ >> let's bring in our guests.r research fellow at university college london. in baltimore, an astronomer at the space telescope science institute in one of the scientist who selected the images which you've seen. in boston, a theoretical physicist and professor of science at harvard university. welcome to you all. thank you for joining us. we had a little bit of an introduction about what james webb is designed to do. tell us more about why it's described as a time machine. >> it is a time machine. everything is a time machine. we are always looking at the past. the screen in front of me, i see it as it was a couple nanoseconds ago. looking deep into space, we are talking not hours, days, years, not even millions. thousands of millions of years in the past when the light from these distant objects, that we see especially in the first image that was released, left some of those objects more than 13,000 years ago. it's fascinating that we are looking into a time machine in the past. >> we will go the images in a mom