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One year ago, NASA
administrator Bill Nelson

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presented President Joe
Biden with the deepest image

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of the universe ever
seen at the time,

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the first full-color, fully
processed image from the James

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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, it's emotional.

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It's surpassing expectations.

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And really, when you
compare what we are seeing

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and the quality of the data
with previous missions,

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it's mind-blowing.

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The part that interests
me now the most

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is the most distant
galaxies that have been

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magnified the most
by these lenses

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

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The spectroscopy is really
just transformational.

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I mean, the images
are a lot better.

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And they go to
longer wavelengths.

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But we've never had this kind
of spectroscopy capability

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in space.

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That's one of the
real transformative

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things about JBST is
being able to see all

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these elements and everything.

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Now we can precisely
say, no, I know

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exactly where that galaxy is.

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And we can start to study
the physical properties

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of the insides of
those baby galaxies

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in the earliest moments of time.

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It's really exciting.

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With JBST, there's more
galaxies than we expected--

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not a ridiculous number.

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They're within the ranges
of different predictions.

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It means that
there's things that

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could be a little
different about galaxies

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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 whenever they're in
one of those bursts like

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that's-- 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

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in the universe more
complex than just hydrogen,

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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

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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.

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