This new image will help us answer the biggest question: Are we alone?
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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.

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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?
02:13 Thank you Storyblocks!
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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Bio:
Cleo Abram is an Emmy-nominated independent video journalist. On her show, Huge If True, Cleo explores complex technology topics with rigor and optimism, helping her audience understand the world around them and see positive futures they can help build. Before going independent, Cleo was a video producer for Vox. She wrote and directed the Coding and Diamonds episodes of Vox’s Netflix show, Explained. She produced videos for Vox’s popular YouTube channel, was the host and senior producer of Vox’s first ever daily show, Answered, and was co-host and producer of Vox’s YouTube Originals show, Glad You Asked.

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Additional reading and watching:
– Full NASA images: https://www.nasa.gov/webbfirstimages
– Explore the stars with the incredible NASA interactive I use in this video: https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/eyes-on-exoplanets
– Check out Jim’s Cosmos Editable Sky Chart (edited and printed for this video!) https://www.jimscosmos.com/editableallskychart
– The James Webb Telescope launch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nT7JGZMbtM&ab_channel=NASA
– “The 1995 Hubble photo that changed astronomy” (we still love you Hubble!) https://youtu.be/95Tc0Rk2cNg
– “The Insane Engineering of James Webb Telescope” https://youtu.be/aICaAEXDJQQ
– More from me on the James Webb Telescope on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@cleoabram/video/7119264354905689386?is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1

Gear I use:
Camera: Sony A7SIII
Lens: Sony 16–35 mm F2.8 GM
Audio: Sennheiser SK AVX and Zoom H4N Pro

Music: Musicbed

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