James Webb Telescope: A step toward reshaping our understanding of the universe

NewsClick’s Prabir Purkayastha and Prof. Sabyasachi Chatterjee discuss the James Webb Space Telescope and the implications and future of the images it has brought us

July 15, 2022 by Newsclick

The new Webb telescope has shown that NASA’s $10 billion investment and 26 years are finally delivering their promise. Since light takes a long time to reach us, not only are we looking at distant galaxies but also at the light that left these stars/galaxies 13.1 billion years ago. The Big Bang is estimated to have occurred 13.8 billion years back. So we are peering at objects a long distance away and a long time back. In this interview, Prabir Purkayastha and Prof. Sabyasachi Chatterjee discuss the implications and future.