glasses, so you re all just little blobs. i can see what all. which is helpful. yes. can we, i want to start, in your way into this material. because i have to say, it is an incredible talent that you have, and this is been through a new television show for years, of sort of finding these sort of unexplored nuggets in american history, the stories that people don t know, and then you tell them, and you re like, what? really? this actually happened? and ultra was an incredible example of that. where i literally i knew who father coughlin was. he s a right-wing antisemitic populist preacher. i knew that. i knew that there was, you know, there s this america first movement that lindbergh i read the philippe brought novel which is great. which is great. but that was kind of my cannon for those things. i knew those things. and nothing else appeared in that podcast. so i wanted to
by the james webb space telescope. from the tarantula nebula, where stars are born amidst the dust, to a dying star, the ring nebula, throwing off its outer layers as it runs out of fuel. and the phantom galaxy, with 100 billion stars amongst its spiral arms. these images are stunning but they re also transforming what we thought we knew about the cosmos. the telescope can look back to the very dawn of the universe, and it s revealing game changing galaxies that are breaking all the rules. it can see the cosmos 13.5 billion years ago, just after the big bang. scientists thought the first galaxies would be primitive structures but in fact they re forming far faster and earlier than astronomers ever thought possible. we certainly thought that we d be seeing things that were, you know, i might call them fuzzy blobs of stars, collections of stars. and what we re actually seeing is fully formed galaxies. and when you look
breaking all the rules. it can see the cosmos 13.5 billion years ago, just after the big bang. scientists thought the first galaxies would be primitive structures but in fact they re forming farfaster and earlier than astronomers ever thought possible. we certainly thought that we d be seeing things that were, i might call them fuzzy blobs of stars, collections of stars. and what we re actually seeing is fully formed galaxies. and when you look at them, they have sort of perfect spiral arms. you can see that these galaxies in the early universe already have those mature structures. so, in that sense, it s really changing scientific thinking. this isn t the only discovery that s shaking up the early cosmos. the telescope is also spotting a surprising abundance of giant black holes. black holes are scattered throughout the universe. this is the one at the centre of our own milky way. they form when a massive star dies and collapses in on itself.
and the phantom galaxy, with 100 billion stars amongst its spiral arms. these images are stunning but they re also transforming what we thought we knew about the cosmos. the telescope can look back to the very dawn of the universe, and it s revealing game changing galaxies that are breaking all the rules. it can see the cosmos 13.5 billion years ago, just after the big bang. scientists thought the first galaxies would be primitive structures but in fact they re forming far faster and earlier than astronomers ever thought possible. we certainly thought that we d be seeing things that were, you know, i might call them fuzzy blobs of stars, collections of stars. and what we re actually seeing is fully formed galaxies. and when you look at them, they have sort of perfect spiral arms. you can see that these galaxies in the early universe already have those mature structures. so, in that sense, it s really changing scientific thinking.
An ancient collision with Theia, a Mars-sized object, gave rise to the moon, and scientists now suspect they've found its remnants in Earth's deep mantle. Continue reading for more details.