one giant leap -- >> after the hubble space telescope named for astronomer edwin hubble, nasa continueme most of his face telescopes after scientists. typically, these missions would start with the technical name in korean and around the time it was launched. >> i've heard a rationale for that, like in case of a lunch failure, families often did not want to be associated with a failed space telescope. so often they rename the telescope after a commissioning of the telescope. >> five months after the launch in 1991, it was renamed after arthur holly compton. renamed this one after john rossi three months after it launched in 1995. in 1998, nasa announced a public contest rename the advanced x-ray facility most of zoning's omission haskell student was in honor of indian-american nobel laureate. the shuttle infrared telescope facility was first renamed the space infrared telescope facility and then after another public contest, renamed the spencer after it launched in 2003. in 2008, a contest rename the gammaray large area space telescope. it resulted in the observatory being renamed afte

space agencies in europe, the us and canada, is intended to explore the oldest galaxies and the universe. the new telescope is about $100.00 times more sensitive than its 30 year old predecessor, the hubble space telescope. thanks to a 25 square meter mirror and inference senses, it can detect galaxies, stars, and planets that a hidden in the visible spectrum by dust and gas. ready the telescope was under development for more than 30 years and cost about $8800000000.00 euros. ready thousands of engineers and hundreds of scientists worked on its construction . more than 300 universities, organizations and companies from 14 countries were involved in december, the telescope was finally launched aboard an adiana rocket. one month later, it had reached its outpost 1500000 kilometers away. scientists hope its images will provide insights into the early period after the big bang, 13800000000 years ago. it would also examine the earth's immediate surroundings and our solar system, as well as look for habitable planets with water resources. will not cochran is a senior advisor at the european space agency. so this telescope can see back in time, basically. how does that work? well, the speed of

space telescope. that we're seeing at longer wavelengths we're seeing in the infrared. so it's almost like having night vision goggles for the universe. we get to see things that the hubble telescope can never see because of these wavelengths with the james web space telescope. we can see through gas and dust where stars are being born or the dust from dying stars, or even all the dust, the shrouds, galaxies, all these things. we can now hear inside of and really study in detail and extreme detail as you already said. and noticed in these images that we have never had the capability of doing at these wavelengths before and stiffly. when we look at these pictures, you know, this is just a, i mean it was described today by nasa as like a grain of sand on the end of your finger tip. what we're seeing here. so we're talking about count with stars, countless galaxies. what is the answer then when i pose the question to you tonight? are we alone? that's a wonderful question. and you know we are working diligently across multiple space agencies to, to survey the sky and details that we've never had the capability of doing before. the next generation telescopes are going to be b

a photograph now of some of the farthest stars that we can see with a space telescope, 100 times more powerful than the aging hubble. this is spectacular. it is a time machine. it allows us to peer back through time right after the big bang itself. some of the stars in this picture date back 13 billion years into the past giving us a whole new way of looking at the universe. >> so as we look back 13 billion years, pretty far back, what are we learning from that? >> well, we begin to understand the expanding universe, the fact that about 13.8 billion years ago there was this cosmic explosion that gave birth to everything that we see around us. in other words the webb space telescope is a time machine that gives us the life history of stars and the universe itself. we can see photographs of stars being born, stars aging, and stars eventually dying. and we see them as our own fate when our solar system was just like the solar systems we see here. just remember that every dot in this photograph is a galaxy of maybe 100 billion stars. and so how long stars are you looking at? trillions. trillions of stars with trillions

it was equipped the hubble space telescope to, to understand the universe. and so these are true, you know, nasa funding to develop technology and now today's, this is everywhere, but just the tv. this is medical imaging. so, you know, you should think astronomers if we can use our and take a selfie this, you know, the, the, we are curious species and this is the curios at the is the deepest root of innovation. so fundamental science is fundamental to all we have around. uh, yeah, i wrote that down. curiosity is the deepest root of innovation. i feel like so much to put that on a t shirt. let me i know you want to jump in, go ahead. yeah. and just after that, the budget that's being invested in jane said that's over a period of, you know, 25 years. and, but that's only a fraction of the cost that the nation to have both built of toes could spend on military budget every year. i've seen a lot of debate about whether we should be spending more money, whether we should be investing this money in education or be, are doing this because we want to learn the right

we've already learned that with the hubble space telescope, the same software can be adapted to looking for breast cancer, tumors, and other things. so there's always a spin off. there's always a parallel, loose use and usually the real exciting ones, the ones we don't even know about yet. all right, that was cave going editor of spacecraft dot com. thank you for analysis and bring us a little bit of closer to some the new discoveries we can look forward to. my pleasure is a quick look at some more stories making headlines around the world. social media platform, twitter is soon, billionaire e, one must in an effort to force him to buy the company. mosque is attempting to back out of an agreement to acquire twitter for $44000000000.00 in his loss of twitter accuses musk of ruining the company. stock value and disrupting operations. u. s. president joe biden has held talks with his mexican counterpart, andreas lopez, over a daughter at the white house. biden cold immigration, a common challenge, and said is ministration was creating legal pathways for my grants. open door recently skip t

we've already learned that with the hubble space telescope, the same software can be adapted to looking for breast cancer, tumors, and other things. so there's always a spin off. there's always a parallel i'll use use and usually the real exciting ones, the ones we don't even know about yet. all right, that was keith colleen, editor of spacecraft dot com. thank you for analysis and bring us a little bit closer to some the new discoveries we can look forward to alicia. now we go to the ongoing political crisis in sri lanka, their reports that's relock as president, as for the country on a military jet. following days of protests, as crowds continued to occupy his residence in the capital, colombo immigration officials said got a buyer roger boxer and his wife ordered an air force plane headed to the mall dees, roger pock. so went into hiding before angry mobs stormed his presidential. compound on saturday, the countries in the grips of it's worst economic crisis and decades. food fuel and medicine sorta just had become commonplace there on the island of 22000000 people. roger poxel was e

this is taken from the hubble space telescope, which we know has been up in space for a long time. lescope. we have. that's a stellar nursery. it's in our own milky way galaxy. it's about 7600 your way. gellar nursery, stars are born. worst are all but all that brown see the bottom. yeah. gas and dust sort of floating around in this nebula and every now that it swirls together in a way. >> that creates a start so dense, you see it to us. it looks like a mountain to something, you know, just just and debris. so that was the image that clears image we ever had from the hubble space telescope and now law, the fuel switch to the james webb shot by that very same in more detail and hundreds of more stars that we didn't know. were there that we can now see with the infrared cameras on the james webb telescope. it is pretty phenomenal. the colors are fantastic. it's pretty amazing to see just how much more detail we can make out in our own galaxy. let alone halfway across the u.s.. so just because we can't see stuff doesn't mean it's not there. this is all there. even if you don't hit it.

space telescope. next to you the image from the hubble space telescope. >> this is the original or the old school. >> right, the hubble has been up there for 30 years. this is new. this is one that just came in from the james webb telescope. same thing. look at the detail and stars. it's amazing to think this is the kind of tech logically and cameras we have this far out into space. >> we talk about the silicon valley connection. here is the dying star, correct? >> yes, this is a star dying sending out space gas and all this incredible material. by the way, how detailed is this? this little thing right here is a galaxy. i mean, amazing. you mention the camera. we'll get to that. that camera built here in the bay area in palo alto at lockheed martin. we were out there today talking to the chief scientist who said they are extremely proud. they are setting up science for the next several generations of scientists. check it out. >> being able to observe the earliest stars and galaxies as they were formed. being able to observe, understand their evolution. be able to observe the star and the other is to

the telescope which is seven times bigger than the hubble space telescope and looks back at what is calledight, the light, the distant galaxies are so far away they are moving away from us so fast that their light is stretched out and the radiation becomes infrared radiation by the time it arrives here. this infrared telescope can look back at those distant galaxies and what it is also doing is using a phenomenon called gravitational lensing. like a fence around galaxies so forgot galaxies can actually magnify even more distant galaxies and this image has demonstrated gravitational lensing of very distant galaxies by foreground galaxies allowing the most distant image he had seen. that is just today. within the next few months of the record will be broken over and over again as it tries to look back at the very first galaxies are formed. to understand how galaxies might our galaxy formed, you and i got here, using the james webb space telescope to understand the first structure formation. >> what you are saying is this will transform our understanding of the universe? >> it will move it fo

so will the hubble space telescope at some point as well. that's what happens.hen you are in low earth orbit, you just reduce the speed and just bring it down. we must remember also that china is completing their own space station this year, and that's another component here, another country that was not allowed to join the international space station. they went their own way and are building their own -- in record time -- their own space station as well. so i hope that all of these collaborations bring us more close together, because space exploration is very forgiving. it's extremely dangerous. you need international collaboration to deal with emergencies, to deal with enormous challenges. it would be good to have the expertise from different scientific and technological groups working together. bernard: i wanted to move on to china, actually. could russia realistically move on to cooperate more with china's space program? china is supposed to be ahead of russia now, technologically, in space. pavel: actually, clearly ahead in finances. so, they are building i

i'm sure that it already contains new information because the telescope has 7.3 times the area of the hubble tapes scott -- spacepe. the fundamental thing we need to keep in mind is that nature is much more imaginative than we are. therefore, we have to look. just by looking, we will discover new things. there's no doubt in my mind that the most exciting discoveries are yet to come. we can't even imagine at this point. even the deep field of the hubble tape -- space telescope wasn't conceived when the telescope was constructed. nobody thought it would be that way. let's just stay tuned and be humble. a sense of cosmic modesty is in place because the universe surprises us very often. let's just look and enjoy the show. >> several of the studies are devoted to exoplanets. why is this generating so much interest? >> it is so important. it has planted twits are very similar to the earth. they are also what is called the goldilocks zone. you can have liquid water on the surface of a planet where the temperature is such that it's not too close or far away. the water can't remain in liquid state on the surface of the p

we've looked at some of. the earliest images from the james webb space telescope. with the hubblesc—shaped. which is surprising because we thought those kind of galaxies did not exist, but now we're fighting them in great abundance quite early in the universe of white what's special about those universe of white what's special about thos— universe of white what's special about thos ., ., , ., , about those galaxies, if anything? so, about those galaxies, if anything? so. they're _ about those galaxies, if anything? so. they're very — about those galaxies, if anything? so, they're very special _ about those galaxies, if anything? so, they're very special because i so, they're very special because they're super common. in the local universe, they make up about 75% of all galaxies. our own galaxy is a disk galaxy. our neighbouring galaxies... so, most galaxies are discs, so to understand galaxies, we have to understand how discs form, how galaxies become discs, how they survive it for over 10 billion years as a disk. and don't buckle in themselves or merge with other galaxies to dest

already in the pacific ocean us, i will be there the hubble space telescope in, at some point as well. so it will be the all be doug, what happens when you are in low air 4 bits? you are just reveals the speed on the new. i read a control way, your stuff just bring it down on that. we must remember also that china is a complete thing there on the space station this year. and that's another component here. i know that a country like was not allowed to join the international space station they, when they're on way and they got, they are building their own la in record time, actually they're on space station as well. so i hope, as i said before, that all the scholars were a sure of course, more girls to get there because our space exploration is very forgiving is very, is there? yeah. extremely bang jiggles. you mean international collaboration did with emergencies to deal with a man and not was challenges and he will be good to have the expertise from different from different scientific and technological groups working together. i wanted to move on to, to china are actually in an unpubl

you get the, the, the telescope, which is 7 times bigger, essentially than there are hubble space telescope, and to look back at what's called in for red light, is necessary because the light, because those to those distant galaxies are so far away. they're moving away from a so fast that they're light and stretched out and the visible radiation becomes an infrared radiation by the time it arrives here. ah, this is out there and these are the top stories. a product funeral is due to get underway for japan's former prime minister ations obey. earlier, his body was taken to a temple in toko, where people late flowers are by was assassinated, while campaigning, absent election rally on friday. police have acknowledged security lapses at the event. marco pan is the owner of she gets her news agency. he explains why the ceremony is open only to family, close friends. we don't have the real explanation for why they chose a private ceremony, but ah, you know, in a way, i think it's quite understandable that, you know, there is kind of an inner circle of people who were actually personally close to

i think what's special about the hubble space telescope and web we'll have that as well. is the sense of, or, and inspiration about this very big universe we live in and i, and i, you know, hopefully that will inspire kids to come along and come and use this telescope. it'll operate for 20 years. so there's a chance that they'll be able to use it. you know, kids who are in school today will be able to come and use it. but also, i think, you know, it gives us a bit of cosmic perspective that perhaps some of the troubles which we look for here on. when you think about the bigger picture, maybe we should just be a little bit kinder nicer to each other and live in the world and get to where we, you know, we're not here for long. know exactly some cosmic advice there from cochrane senior guys of science and exploration at the european space agency. thank you. my pleasure. such good words. so have you, alyssa? you're watching dw news life from berlin willis. the chat is up next with use asia reporting on japan's farewell to its longest serving prime minister should swaby assass

already contains a new information because the telescope is, has 7.3 times the area of the hubble space telescope. the fundamental thing we need to keep in mind is, nature is much more imaginative than we are. and therefore we have to look and just by looking, we will be governor thinks there is no doubt in my mind that the most exciting discoveries are yet to come, that we cannot even imagine at this point, even the deep field of the hover space, their scope was not conceived when the telescope was constructed, nobody thought that it would be that way. and so let's just stay tuned and be humble. a sense of cosmic modesty is in place, because the universe surprises us very often. so let's just look and enjoy the show . francesco, 2 of the studies are devoted so exit planets including that the trappist one system . why is this generating so much interest that system or for extra solar planets is extremely important because it has planets which are very similar to the earth. and they are also what the said or call the goldilocks on, which is, are so not on the star. when you can have liquid walked

you get the, the, the telescope, which is 7 times bigger essentially than the hubble space telescope, and can look back at what's called infrared light. is necessary because the light because those to those distant galaxies are so far away. they're moving away from a self.

the telescope, which is 7 times bigger, essentially than the hubble space telescope, and could look back at what's called infrared light, is necessary because the light, because those to those distant galaxies are so far away, they're moving away from a so fast that their lightens, stretched out and the visible radiation becomes an infrared radiation by the time it arrives here. so this infrared telescope can look back at those distant galaxies . and what it's also doing is using a phenomenon called gravitational lensing, is using the fact that light bends around galaxies. so for around galaxies can actually magnify even more distant galaxies. and this image has demonstrates gravity for lensing, a very distant galaxies, by foreground galaxies, allowing the most distant image yet seen. but that's, of course, just to day within the next few months, that record of the broken over and over again as the james up space telescope tries to look back at the very 1st galaxies a form. so we can understand how structure in the universe form today, our own galaxies, about 12 and probably between 12 a

realize, you realize there is a whole universe out there that we have not seen, even with the hubble space telescopeubble space telescope. neil: wow. >> if you look at the pictures, each dot, each dot represents a galaxy. a galaxy of 100 billion stars. when you look at the entire picture you're looking at literally a trillion stars. this is incredible. when you look at the night ski, you have a pinpoint of light, a pinpoint of light in the night ski, expanded gives you one of these pictures from the webb space telescope. to think we're only intelligent creatures in the universe, looking at the majesty of the pictures it is a little bit presumptuous i think. neil: a lot of people seize on the possibility of that, doctor. they go through frequency of waves we get now and then. some call it interference. others say, there is sign something is out there, maybe watching us as well, what do you think of that? >> well, we have no conclusive evidence of life in outer space. we looked, we tried. we really tried to find evidence of intelligence out there. neil: right. >> so far we no reproducible, testifiable

this picture is from the hubble space telescope.ebb. it is 100 times more powerful, and the difference is clear to see, revealing more galaxy than stars in far greater detail. but this is just the start. more images will be released in the coming hours. our understanding of the universe and our place in it is about to be transformed. rebecca morelle, bbc news. time for a look at the weather. here's chris fawkes. that is a very serene picture but more cloud than expected. yes this is a change to the weather some of us are having today. this was sent from the wales area, and that cloud has been thick enough to bring a bit of light rain no huge amount but you might see some this afternoon, in the south—east it is a the same story with the high pressures —— temperatures hitting the �*30s. extreme heat billing into sunday and monday. this afternoon, here is that area of cloud. it is a weak weather front. it is bringing a bit of rain, not much rain left on that at all, so most of you probably will have a dry afternoon. still hot in the so

we are they and available accessible to people around the world in a way that may be the hubble space telescope. are the previous missions of not have been, be now have the data that was released today is actually available for anyone around the world to download and analyze the software that we are using to license data is also more accessible. and i think because i don't, world of post pandemic has also changed where we are now more able to connect with each other or conduct meetings and the researchers over on by i think we are moving to an era where with james, that very day we will see people from all over the world coming in into and, and getting, you know, getting to do science with this wonderful chance of in a way that, that has not have happened before. but i think there is, you know, there is a lot of things to look forward to now here most, most certainly, and among them as much as i want to look for it and we should and there is so much to look forward to. i want to ask you just for a little bit of context, renee, you know, hub oh versus web. if you will. the last time nasa launche

it's a little familiar, like the hubble space telescope, or just get most people don't realize incredibleook superficially like pictures you've seen before but when you look at the detail, you realize you are seeing something never seen before. kennedy: when you think about the composition and difficulty, tell me about the points, a special spot in space where is like goldilocks where it has to be just right for the telescope to function optimally. >> you need it stable and it can't be close to the earth. the earth gives off a lot of infrared light and plain light which would contaminate what the telescope has to do. it's like how to get to the backside of the moon you don't have interference? you don't have to go to the backside of the moon, you go to these points where the gravitational forces balanced between the sun and earth and the moon and that means it can sit there. the only trouble is you put out there, you can't get to it, it's too far away to fix it has to be right the first time. kennedy: unlike the hubble, spacewalkers have gone and fixed it several times and make adjustment

space telescope kyle waters. sac state planetarium director says this is like the hubble space telescope, but better the james webb fuld itself up to fit inside of a rocket. and then after got into space unfolded and has a mere that's more than 21 feet across. >> and tomorrow, you can get a chance to see these 5 high-definition images right here on this 40 foot diameter. do. >> a good look at a far off galaxy cluster, a grouping of for galaxies very near each other. and they're actually interacting with one another kind of like messing with each other. called stephan's quintet. >> some of these images we've already seen, but waters says it will give us a better look at what's out there. a beautiful view of the karina nebula. >> this a star-forming region with scientists actually call a stellar nursery. a newborn baby stars for rajon dick's it. it's a great, big deal for the whole world. this has been a long time coming for him. >> as the vice president of the sacramento valley, astronomical society, he says this is history in the making. it will push. >> the boundaries of these early universe back to. as far as th

and it is beyond what the hubble space telescope can do.rate galaxies, stars and dust also showing the creation of new stars, here is a stunning image of the carina nebula, named the cosmic clips. it is a supernova remnants showing gas and dust as well. just rich in data. and a new release, this of a dying star. they go so far back in time, astronomers believe we are seeing the universe as it was just 200 or 300 million years after the big bang. truly absolutely amazing, neil. people around the world and all today. >> neil: i marvel at how they can find that stuff. i want to go to anti-al-anon on this. what do you think, andy? fantastic. i think that it should be a very proud day. when i came back from the first space flight asking if i felt significant because i was one of the few in space and my answer was really when you see how many stars are really out there into the galaxy and realize how many billions of stars and billions and billions of galaxies in the universe, you actually feel like you are pretty insignificant. so i think it's w

space telescope kyle waters. sac state planetarium director says this is like the hubble space telescope, but better the james webb fuld itself up to fit inside of a rocket. and then after got into space unfolded and has a mere that's more than 21 feet across. >> and tomorrow, you can get a chance to see these 5 high-definition images right here on this 40 foot diameter. do. >> a good look at a far off galaxy cluster. a grouping of for galaxies very near each other. and they're actually interacting with one another kind of like messing with each other. called stephan's quintet. >> some of these images we've already seen, but waters says it will give us a better look at what's out there. a beautiful view of the karina nebula. >> this a star-forming region with scientists actually call a stellar nursery. a newborn baby stars for rajon dick's it. it's a great, big deal for the whole world. this has been a long time coming for him. >> as the vice president of the sacramento valley, astronomical society, he says this is history in the making. it will push. >> the boundaries of these early universe back to. but as far a

space telescope kyle waters. sac state planetarium director says this is like the hubble space telescope, but better the james webbthen after got into space unfolded and has a mirror that's more than 21 feet across. >> and tomorrow you can get a chance to see these 5 high-definition images right here on this 40 foot diameter. do. >> a good look at a far off galaxy cluster, a grouping of for galaxies very near each other. and they're actually interacting with one another kind of like messing with each other. called stephan's quintet. >> some of these images we've already seen, but waters says it will give us a better look at what's out there. a beautiful view of the karina nebula. >> this a star-forming region with scientists actually call a stellar nursery. a newborn baby stars for rajon dick's it. it's a great, big deal for the whole world. this has been a long time coming for him. >> as the vice president of the sacramento valley, astronomical society, he says this is history in the making. it will push. >> the boundaries of these early universe back to. but as far as they can get before, breaking a lot of time.

. >> yes, much higher resolution that the hubble space telescope and able to look much there is the deep field image which was actually released yesterday, that deep field image has galaxies and that that are more than 13 billion light years away. we've never seen that far out in space. so you're talking light that has traveled through the universe for 13 billion years before reaching us. and just incredible detail. >> and there's just so much inside each of these pictures. i feel like as well, right, like especially that one from yesterday. there's so many little bits that you're going to be dissecting. i'm sure. >> right. you know, one of the interesting things about that, the deep field image, if you look at it, you'll see lee's kind of orange ish colored arcs that all seem to circle around one point, ozarks what we call gravitational lensing. so these galaxies that are so far away, light years away. so light from them is being distorted by the galaxies that are closer to us. the gravity of those galaxies is actually bending the light and creating those we call that gravitational lens

it's, it's the mirror on it is larger, so it's way more sensitive than the hubble space telescope. so what that does is that not only makes sharper pictures, but it also sort of cuts down some of the observation times, like the hubble deep field image took days to get and the hubble and the james web deep field image took about 12 hours. so it will be able to let us do a lot more science that we could not do before. and this is the 1st dump of images is going to be many more to come. what are your expectations? and in terms of discovering ancient galaxies, alien worlds and celestial bodies within our solar system, it's gonna be so exciting on. there's a lot of these images. if you look at the one for the southern ring nebula, there is a little, it looks maybe like an artifact in the photo, but it is actually a galaxy that is located behind the nebula. so it's further away from us. it's shining through. and that is just one example when it comes to x o planets like this discovery, they detected water vapor and clouds in the atmosphere this planet. but once they really dig into the da

see farther into the cosmos than ever before, and with three times more clarity than the hubble space telescope web was built to replace sounding detail that you can see in some of these galaxies. i mean, they just pop out 25 years in the making the revolutionary telescope launched last christmas. scientists are hoping to use the findings to learn more about the universe as well as the history of earth over the next 20 years, the further away something is the further back in time we're looking so this is actually the way that a telescope can sort of act like a time machine. scientists are also hoping to determine whether some of these exoplanets outside of our own galaxy ever were or are habitable. in miami. phil keating, fox news. researchers have made an advance in efforts to determine whether organs from animals can be used to save human lives. a surgical team in new york has transplanted hearts from genetically modified pigs. into two individuals who were clinically dead. each recipient a deceased man and woman had been declared brain dead. researchers say the heart's function normally duri

galaxy nearby galaxy, relatively on the sandal field that we see here was also image by the hubble space telescope, so we can compare like, with like, so these galaxy, the cent 30 spot cluster of galaxies that we see around smaller galaxies, are they all white? and they have a lot of mass. they have a lot of mass. it is a local back matter around this cluster, as well as the last 13, the universe pick up the matter on all these. well, this is an enormous amount of gravity. and that the gravity well uses a distortion of light of the objects which are behind in the far, far background, which are the galaxies that we seen the picture. so these background galaxies, you can see them very clearly, are around like, got like a consent lic circles. so modeling has been cutting, distorted in concept we seek, was by the light, the gravity, your visa, a visa, foreground galaxy cluster. so this is how can i be patient my names, but this caller going to be patient lens. it appears in the hobble image as well. but here is far more beetle. and we see far, many more galaxies as well. so the, that effect of the gra

but as a guy who has worked on the hubble telescope how deep in space are we going?eing. one is a cluster of galaxies. how deep they are. 4 1/2 billion light years away. that's pretty far. but what's even more interesting is some of those swoopy things you see is actually light being bent from galaxies beyond that closer to 13 billion light years away and that is getting close to the extent of our universe. hubble can see 13 billion but you need an extra 800 million years or so to go back to the origins of the universe, the formation of the universe. a very encouraging photo that the telescope is working and able to see clearly deep into the universe and hopefully soon, whatever that means, a couple months or so maybe we'll see even more impressive images coming down the pike. >> dana: i'm blown away. can't get my head around 13 billion light years. i don't understand how to compute it. for you to see an image like this what are you looking for? >> i look for the clarity of what we're seeing. there is a lot of galaxies there. also the signs of what is behind it, like

first era of the existence of space, the sharpness and image quality of the new space telescope is higher than that of the hubblethere were doubts about this, because the new telescope operates in the infrared range. secondly, this picture is even more detailed, in the sense that faintly luminous objects are visible, but this is already an expected thing, because a large lens collects more sveta. in this case, the telescope was focused on a cluster of galaxies. pc-0723, located in the sector of the flying fish constellation, from there, the light flew to us for about 5 billion years past other galaxies and clusters got into the frame, even the stars of our milky way. they are the brightest and clearest . look at the center of the image, blurry deformed objects. this effect is called gravitational lysis and causes it is the same massive cluster of galaxies 0.7, 23 gravitational field. cluster the galaxy works like one giant lens, focusing the light that lies behind them, behind these clusters of objects galaxies. yes, of course they are distorted, because the lenses are not perfect, but for us this is not very im

this picture is from the hubble space telescope.ur understanding of the universe and our place in it is about to be transformed. rebecca morelle, bbc news. joining me now is drjenifer millard, astronomer. thanks forjoining us. what an amazing job title. you are the perfect person to give a bit of insight. in the report we heard about how this is going to change the way we understand the universe. explain more about this. it is absolutely. _ explain more about this. it is absolutely, it _ explain more about this. it is absolutely, it will— explain more about this. it 3 absolutely, it will touch on almost every branch of astrophysics, so in our own solar system we will study comets and asteroids and the planets, mars, jupiter, saturn, neptune and some of the icy moons, moving out into the galaxy, we will look at newborn stars which have been hidden behind clouds and the gas and we will also look at dying stars, learning about the eventual fate of our own sun. we will study galaxies in the nearby universe and stretching out through mos