Seeing The Universe Like We've Never Seen It Before

Now that the James Webb Space Telescope has released its first image

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it’s time for the science programs to begin.

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We meet 5 scientists who will be using the telescope

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during its first cycle of operations looking at the earliest galaxies,

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red giant stars in the disc of Andromeda,

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star forming regions in the MIlky Way and nearby galaxies,

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the Trappist-1 exoplanet system, and mysterious icy bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune.

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