Huge If True - Cleo Abram

How This Telescope Searches For Aliens


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This new image will help us answer the biggest question: Are we alone? Subscribe if you love optimistic technology stories. NASA just released the first pictures from the James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful telescope ever built. They’re incredible. They show the deepest we’ve ever seen into space, stars being born, galaxies colliding. But the least beautiful one is my favorite. It’s the spectrum of exoplanet WASP 96-b. In simpler terms, it’s a picture of the atmosphere of a planet over 1,000 light years away. Most simply put… it’s our new way to find aliens. Chapters: 00:00 First images from the James Webb Space Telescope 00:52 Where are all the aliens? 01:34 How does the James Webb Space Telescope find life? 02:43 How do we know what's on other planets? 03:35 What did the James Webb Space Telescope find? 04:09 What does it mean that we found water?? 04:49 What happens next??
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Huge If True - Cleo AbramBy Cleo Abram