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Preview: Season 50 Episode 4 | 27s | Video has closed captioning.
Join scientists as they use NASA’s brand new James Webb Space Telescope to peer deep in time to hunt for the first stars and galaxies in our universe, and try to detect the fingerprints of life in the atmospheres of distant exoplanets.
Aired: 02/22/23
- [Narrator] The James Webb Space Telescope.
- Think about it as a telescope that enables us to see the hidden universe.
- [Narrator] Its mission is only beginning.
- We're just tapping into those abilities.
- Is there an Earth 2.0 out there?
- When you have new eyes, you discover new things.
With Webb, we're discovering a new universe.
- It's just amazing.
- [Narrator] "New Eye on the Universe," on Nova.
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