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One year ago,

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NASA administrator
Bill Nelson presented President Joe Biden

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with the deepest image of the universe
ever seen at the time,

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the first full-color, fully processed
image from the James Webb Space Telescope

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in less physical space
than a grain of sand on Earth,

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Webb revealed a universe
full of more wonder

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and potential discoveries
than we can even imagine.

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It was a beautiful promise of things
to come.

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You know, when the first data came out,

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you know, it was, it's emotional.

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It's surpassing expectations and really,
when you compare what we are seeing

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and the quality of the data with previous
missions, it's, it's mind blowing.

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The part that interests me now
the most is the most distant galaxies

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that have been magnified the most by
these lenses that Einstein told us about.

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So we are seeing so much more
than I ever dreamed possible,

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and I just want to know what's in them.

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The spectroscopy is really just,
you know, transformational.

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I mean, the

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you know, the images are a lot better
and they go to longer wavelengths.

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But we've never had this kind
of spectroscopy capability in space.

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You know, that's
one of the real transformative things

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about JWST, is being able
to see all these elements and everything.

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Now, we can precisely say, no,
I know exactly where that galaxy is

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and we can start to study
the physical properties of the insides

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of those baby galaxies
in the earliest moments of time.

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It's really exciting.

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With JWST there's more galaxies

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than we expected.

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Not a ridiculous number,

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you know, they're within the ranges
of different predictions.

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It means that, you know, there's things
that could be a little different

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about galaxies in the early universe.

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They could be more bursty
in terms of their star formation.

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And so, you know, whenever they're in one
of those bursts like that, you see them,

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and so there's more that pop out.

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The stuff you're made of came from stars.

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And if you want to understand
the origins of everything in the universe

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more complex than just hydrogen,
you have to study these processes.

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We're asking questions
we didn't know we needed to ask,

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and what's the next thing
that we're going to find?

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And what's the next question
that's going to surprise us?

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Or, the answer where all of our predictions
are, not quite correct.

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Which is the fun part of science.

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When you're wrong, you're like,
Oh, this is something new.

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And that's when it gets truly exciting.