How close is the James Webb Space Telescope to finding life?

What a yr of NASA’s James Webb Telescope tells us concerning the seek for extraterrestrial life.

A mixed optical/mid-infrared picture, that includes information from each the NASA/ESA Hubble House Telescope and the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb House Telescope, reveals M74, in any other case generally known as the Phantom Galaxy, August 29, 2022. [NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope/Handout via Reuters]

The US area company NASA launched the James Webb House Telescope, the biggest telescope ever put into area, simply over a yr in the past. Since then, we've been given an entire new image of the universe – picture after picture of stars, planets and galaxies, farther into the universe than people have ever seen. We discuss to those that helped put collectively the telescope about what they've realized and learn how shut it truly is to detecting indicators of life on different planets.

On this episode: 

• Stuart Clark (@DrStuClark), astronomer and advisor at New Scientist
• Knicole Colón (@super_knova), deputy mission scientist for exoplanet science at NASA James Webb House Telescope
• Chris Gunn (@ChrisGunnPhoto), photographer at NASA

Episode credit:

This episode was produced by Chloe Ok. Li with Negin Owliaei, Ruby Zaman, Alexandra Locke, Amy Walters, Ashish Malhotra and Halla Mohieddeen. Aya Elmileik and Adam Abou-Gad are our engagement producers. Alex Roldan is our sound designer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio.

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