get you the whole day before the show. so i'm going to give you a call right after this for everyone else though. i'll see you next time. i'll see you next weekend, right around the same time. have a great welcome the whole story. i'm anderson cooper since its launch, a little more than two years ago, the james webb space telescope has been capturing some of the most spectacular and enlightening images of outer space. we've ever seen. its mission is to study every phase in the history of our universe the data and the images from web are helping some of our smartest scientific minds answer some of the most intriguing questions of our time, like, where did we come from? is time travel possible? and are we alone? >> for the past two years, cnn space correspondent kristin fisher has followed two teams of scientists as they were awarded precious minutes with the james webb telescope in an effort to answer these very questions what they found is breathtaking and groundbreaking the james webb space telescope unprecedented in science and scale. >> this is effectively the best time gene that we've ever created james webb is revealing the cosmic story where do we come from? are we alone in the universe? these are big questions unlocking the secrets that we never knew the lower 10,000 in individuals, 10 billion behind schedule over budget there's thousands of ways this can go badly one way it goes right james when begins a voyage back to the birth of the universe and those other worldly images displayed on a cosmic tapestry this is a historic moment for humanity and i feel we are super privilege that we can actually see this hopefully we'll be able to see a reflection of ourselves and to learn more about where we came from replacing our reality by rekindling a childlike imagination we are all astronomers as a kid, as an adult, you look up, you say, what's out there i can trace back my interest in space too. grade two assignments where the teacher asked me to do a project on the planets of the solar system the fascination of things, not this earth. for the rest of my life, that continued to stick with dan really salvage is an astronomer and assistant professor at purdue university he's also still just a kid at heart wow, i watched it all for me if the energy and the occupations that he makes in a voice that's just like she away wow i love it that enthusiasm is the fuel that drives dan's curiosity. >> to answer the mysteries of the universe one star at a time do you remember the first time that you heard about cassie appiah, a it had to have been one of the first de it's very likely that that came up like lindsay is dan's wife and casio pia a or cache is a remnant of a supernova explosion that occurred about a 11,000 light-years away. but as the remnants of this massive star race through the milky way, light from the explosion only reached earth about 340 years ago, making it the youngest known supernova remnant in our galaxy. >> can you explain how cassie has kind of followed you inspired you, maybe even haunted you over the last few years. >> it's yes. yes. i'll just say this i laughed with my wife that my phone now has more pictures of casi than my dog on a disgruntled wilbur is still proud of dad, who would become one of the first astronomers ever to be awarded precious observation hours on the most powerful telescope ever built why is it important to study the origin story of stars we all want to know where we came from and how we got here on earth, or a fox and tay, uh, ten them are part of dan's research team made up of 40 scientists from around the world our target is casio pia because it is so young that is still dominant. the emission that we see comes from the material that was expelled in the explosion you may be familiar with the phrase, we are all star dust that is because stars produce the elements needed to form places like the earth and the solar system. and even life and that is why it is important for us to understand how stars evolve and how stars die. and how they feed back that star dust to the rest of the universe. >> it's because of these stellar explosions that we're here today the iron in our blood, the calcium in our bones, the oxygen that we breathe and they're just these incredible displays of fireworks and colors and knots and bubbles and all sorts of exciting things that are going on until now. dan and his team had to rely on optical telescopes like the hubble telescope, which only captures visible light at shorter wavelengths. >> but the webb telescope can capture radiation from longer infrared wavelengths that are invisible to the human eye that allows astronomers to peer through dust particles back in time to the moment when some of the oldest stars in the universe were born as the universe expands light is stretched and hubble can only see light out to a certain distance. >> and that is why we needed to build a bigger telescope to see beyond the depth that hubble can observe to the very edge of the universe. and what you're looking at is light that left these stars and galaxies when they were babies. just a couple of hundred million years after the big bang and so that light is just reaching us here on earth today. >> so think of a chapter book of my life where i went to kindergarten. there's an artwork. >> now imagine that chapter book were the first few years have been those are vital developmental years that really set in flay. >> what happens later? in time. >> so webb will be able to access those earliest stages. so that's why, in a way, it's, it's a time of shame that's why it's a time machine bleeding. i wrote dr. thomas are broken or dr. z. was one of the top administrators at nasa working on web and he more than anyone knew just how much because it stake. but if you add everybody ahp was really touched that telescope. it's well over 10,000 individuals and three space agencies many different countries. >> and the price tag, it's a hefty one, but it's about $10 it was behind schedule. it was over budget. was there ever any point in time where you thought gosh, i just don't know if this telescope is going to get off the ground jwst hat multiple near-death experiences, three made mistakes and be at challenges. >> and frankly, i asked an independent review who would do actually answer the question as said, worth the wing considering how much we're struggling, there's only a few times in the history of astronomy where we look at the sky in entirely new way for the first time and that happened west copernicus had happened with galileo and it's happening with the james webb space telescope and for me, that leap of understanding, not leap of signs, that's coming with done is just amazing coming up. the story of our universe is about to be rewritten. >> but who will be the author? 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>> we try not to focus on credentials because we really want to select based on science project fact theoretically could anybody submit a proposal yes, that's correct that's because nasa removed the identities of the almost 3,000 proposals that were submitted in peer reviewed for webb's first two years in operation? so you don't know their qualifications? that's where gender, their age went from. >> that's right. the reviewers don't know who wrote any of the proposals. >> the thing that really stands out to me is just how open the webb telescope is, how it is anybody essentially can apply for time on the webb space telescope. i wonder what your message would be two people who are considering putting in some proposals to the webb space telescope. >> my response have at it we want to bring the world community into this. it was the world community that put this together for dan and his team, the waiting was the worst part. so you wait and you wait and you wait. >> and then what happened? >> and then the email comes in and i remember i didn't open it. i let it hover there for a little bit soon as i saw, we have approved your vesicle. >> yeah. >> i know. i screamed the loud i did my happy dance and i immediately shared the news. yes, we did it congratulations. >> what's the holy grail for you in terms of the data that you get back from cassie wow, well, we want to understand the story behind this star web is the missing clue the final piece to the puzzle we need to understand the story of cassie and cassie, maybe part of a larger puzzle piecing together the story of our universe james webb begins to look rest of the universe well, the world watched the successful 2021 christmas day launch of the james webb telescope there were still some anxious moments during its first few days in space. we have 30 days is of terror because we had to watch this entire spacecraft unfold bit by bit. >> it is so large that we were not able to as a whole fitted into a rocket and launch it so what he had to come up with this, uh, holly calm design that allows us to fall that sort of like an oregon me each of the 18 mirrors acts as its own independent telescope. stretching 21 feet across web is seen further back in time and with greater resolution than ever before. and that's relief for nasa because there was no backup plan. >> it had to be absolutely perfect because there was no way that we could go 1 million miles and perform ophthalmology on it to correct its vision. >> if you think about the webb space telescope, you should think of it as basically two parts. it's a telescope that's really pick and it's telescope that's really cold cold, because in order to get the most crisp and distant infrared images of deep-space, webb needed to be parked in line with the earth. >> 1 million miles away. so it could be shielded from the sun's radiation so engineers designed to five layered sunshield. each layer the size of a tennis court, made up of a mylar tight membrane. the thickness of a human hair temperature drop between those five layers 600 degrees fahrenheit aesthetically, it's a funny look and telescope, right? >> but from the standpoint of science and engineering, it's beautiful scientifically beautiful, but visually to the untrained eye. >> the first images were lost in translation you cannot say this sky in infrared no matter how hard you try so translating that into a color scale that is as consistent as possible with what we believe as stare and frankly, what we're doing is we're putting the data out so you too can pick up that data do your own artistic interpretation. what do you see when you see this mess big mess. >> you're a housewife with a very interesting hobby. >> yes. >> using nothing but a gaming computer and basic photo editing software. amateur image processor. judy schmidt's work caught the eye of a young graduate student working on a hubble telescope project. >> i was scrolling the web looking for representations of a different supernova remnant. and i was really struck by the ones that she made fast forward years later with the launch of a web. she really came to mind is somebody that would be perfect duty. i'm looking forward to see what you can do with this to help bring these grayscale images to life so when you get data from the webb space telescope, it comes back immediately looking kind of black and white and not all that spectacular because it's an infrared telescope. >> what do you then do with that data? >> you're only going to see a few little dots where the stars are i pulled them into photoshop and i can align them a little bit clearer rotate them and then give it some color. >> there's an intimacy that's developed with the data when you start to make these color composites, these have scientific value as well. >> these images are representations of the, of these energies that are coming in the infrared. so we assign each energy field der, color and we put them together to produce these beautiful images. so they look beautiful, but they also contain a lot of information so what do you say to people who see these images and say, these aren't real, these are fake, these are, these are photoshopped i mean, they have to be photoshopped or you wouldn't see them. the picture that you talk with your phone yesterday off your family, who perhaps you, brian that up a little bit because you want to make sure everybody sees that babies smile or not photoshopping from scratch. and this this, and that we're taking the data and trying to come up with the best representation to explain what the data actually mean. if you don't like it, do it yourself. because the data, the underlying data are there for you it's been a decades-long voyage for dan and pursuit of cache. i've always imagined with this place looks like, but when we brought him to the space telescope's mission control in baltimore, his emotions got the best of it and this is the symbol house flight controller breath it brought you to tears. >> i'm just a country a astronomer from the middle in west and here i am at mission operations control of the webb telescope, sunshield. that side pointed to us as it should be. >> it means so much or something that i've worked so hard towards to be able to experience it in person. >> coming up one of saturn's many moons could be the answer finding life beyond her what's useful about enceladus is it spewing its guts out into outer space debate night in america, as biden and trump meet and only cnn has complete coverage with unrivaled excess and exclusive pre and post debate analysis follow cnn for every countless moment followed debate night in america begins june 27 at seven there's no war so hateful. war between kin was her blood war between tracks house of the dragon streaming, excuse lucidly on macs welcome to the waiver hood with wave. finding your style is fine when the music stops grabbing share, it doesn't matter if for your dollar i'm sorry, carl, this is me and chair form i don't see you come. this one perfect for you. >> love it. >> i told you we should have done opinion nauta i explained it how many died i'm not sending. you need to sit down, please every style, every home michelin innovates on the road and far beyond with errorless tire's designed for exploring new fronts here's michelin, motion for life saving, for retirement, or stop enough, and now we're getting markets can be challenging at times. i understand that's why at fisher investments we keep a disciplined approach with your portfolio, helping you through the market's up sunday what about communication? 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would indicate that the whole chain of evolutions, cosmic chemical, and biological is it work everywhere? in that case, the creation of life anywhere in the universe would be more of the rule than the exception orson welles is soliloquy and nasa's documentary, who's out there punctuated at trending discussion among other cosmic thinkers he know that out there as 1 million other civilizations. >> they all looked fabulously ugly and they're all a lot smarter than us a half century later, the question is still out there one of the things that the webb space telescope is hoping to answer is the question of are we alone in the universe well, think about it if the universe is as big as we have been told, and the james webb telescope is revealing to us do i believe that there's life out there? >> yes, i do. >> that's a bold statement from nasa administrator. >> and do you think the webb space telescope is going to be the instrument? >> that proves it at least it will get us closer to the answer and an answer maybe on the horizon in the form of tiny microbes on an icy moon, 800 million miles away what's useful about enceladus is it spewing its guts out into outer space, never became a news story. chris klein is a planetary scientist at the southwest research institute in san antonio those guts spilling out into space come from one of saturn's more on assuming moons i'd love to talk about what we see above us enceladus. >> do you remember the first time that you sought and became intrigued by it? >> i first saw it when the cassini mission returns some startling images lift off of the cassini spacecraft. >> the cassini spacecraft was launched by nasa and the european space agency in 1997 it's 20 year mission to unravel the mysteries surrounding our solar system's ringed planet. saturn and it was during these flybys that enceladus became the newly minted star of saturn's many moons we learned that it's an icy moon, probably has a deep ocean of liquid water and enceladus is one of the few bodies in the solar system that are geologically active. >> and by geology, you mean volcanoes exactly. >> but unlike on earth, where our volcanoes erupt molten rocks on enceladus we find that the magma is actually a salty liquid water ocean underneath the icy crust it's kinda like if you stick out your tongue when it's snowing and you can actually then collect some of that stuff as it falls back down to the surface. >> let's talk about those plumes. can you compare this size of enceladus to the size of the plume? >> it's shocking. we have no parallel for the scale of the eruptions on enceladus, because the gravity is only about 1% of earth's surface gravity. and so we see eruptions that are thousands of miles into outer space. >> that would be like see in a volcano erupting on earth. >> and the debris flying almost halfway to the moon. >> as we look up at enceladus, you can see all these markings, the tiger stripes, so to speak. what are those? >> solidus has these giant cracks in itself polar region, which we call the tiger stripes because they look like the stripes in the back of a tiger. and from these cracks, there are over 100 jets that are erupting along these cracks and into space and they merge together to form a huge plume when we saw that bloom for the first time, our shock last year, girona mobile and waiver, a scientist at nasa goddard space flight center, only got a glimpse of the plume she was the recipient of just six minutes on web cycle one program to investigate enceladus did it work? you worked fantastic. we saw the ice is on the surface and then you see the water plume blue and i was like wow cassini's discovery of the plume later enhanced by those few minutes on web, was visually spectacular. >> but they needed more one of the fears when we think about an object, you only find water and it's great. there's water, but there's nothing else so life requires all the other stuff that other stuff is what scientists for two is the building blocks of life when we think about life, we always think about the basic components. we call it, can ingredients, the carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen that proportions will tell you how amicable places for life one of the things that enceladus is doing that's given us a favor of big favor by erupting all these materials from its ocean into space and then we can send our missions and our robots there to look at these molecules and get clues about the subsurface ocean water worlds out there, even in our own solar system seeing whether there's emissions going of bursts of water and organics that are coming out from the inside of the ice are much more promising a pool of evidence that scientists are hoping to dive into. >> but among those critical building blocks of life seemed to be one very crucial element missing until now phosphorus, it's what makes life possible and is where the building blocks for dna possibilities are, are kind of extraordinary here. >> but if you have an ocean a salty ocean for a few billion years, maybe there's something alive imagine that all those planets have also moons, which are habitable it defines the idea of habitability and the possibilities of life in a different dimension. >> we have one example of life anywhere right now, it's life on earth. but if we were to find a second example of life on one of the moons in our solar system or some someplace else. that would open up the possibilities all over the universe so this year, glycine and villain waiver had teamed up as part of web cycle to program. and instead of six minutes, they'll have a full hour on web is sort of like finding that a ferrari runs well and you drive it like at 60 miles per hour. but then in cycle two, you could take this sucker up to like 200 for miles per hour so where is the finish line for finding life on enceladus or anywhere else in the universe it may be right here on earth at the bottom of the ocean let's talk a little bit about hydrothermal vents. so hydrothermal vents form wherever you have water in contact with hot rocks what's exciting about hydrothermal vents or hydrothermal systems is that they're environments that create chemical energy sources? we're different kinds of molecules. those environments naturally produce food sources that could be harnessed by microbes or other forms of life and so do you think there's a similarity between what we find near hydrothermal vents here on earth and what we might find on enceladus, there could be a similarity now, scientists are discussing what that means for the habitability of enceladus. >> is there the potential to support life? are the conditions, right for life as we know it every living thing on earth has evolved from the lowly, the invisibly small micro here on our planet microbes have adapted to survive the most hostile conditions arid deserts, the frozen, the mla is in trenches under thousands of tons of pressure in the ocean deeps and that is the holy grail, right? microbes, life on another heavenly body, right? >> that's, that's the holy grail. and we're searching because ultimately it comes back to us coming up. you can see how it glows after a year of waiting, dan and his team finally get some answers about our youngest supernova explosion and the birth of our universe beautiful. >> when you finally first saw this image, the image that webb took of cache, what did you think? 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>> there's a lot of hopes and expectations with this. >> we've been along for the ride with professor dan for over a year and we were at purdue university when he unveiled webb's first images of casie to his team. >> wow okay. >> it was thrilling. my hand was literally shaking on the mouse wow but real-time discovery can take a long time to process cassie is still has many mysteries and web is the way for us to unlock those mysteries but to be able to do so. >> i recognize there's gonna be a lot of work in the days, weeks, months we've even years ahead to unpack everything that we've seen today so professor dan and his team spent a year peering through spatial dust and data to investigate our universe is youngest supernova explosion when somebody looks at an image of cassie they should be recognizing that that is the remains of a star that exploded about 11,000 years ago. but the light first arrived approximately 340 years ago and this debris field is sharing all the building blocks in the raw materials for life and it is this debris field, this explosion of science and art through the eyes of web that may allow us to rewrite the first few chapters of our universe we're finding out things about the first galaxies that we never knew. >> all of these stars and dust and the asteroids and all of this is bumping into each other. and in the course of all that time this magnificent universe has been created we've been getting images and data back from web. any information that you've learned about that is really started to alter or change your understanding of the universe oh gosh, it has been a wild ride. >> what we're finding is with these deepest galaxies, they're already bigger than we anticipated. it's forcing us to review our long-held ideas of galaxy evolution since the birth of the universe. and i think we're in store for a lot of surprises i really took a sharp intake of breath when i saw this new yeah. >> what i'm a little bit lamp, becky i really am. >> i'm a little misty eyed. i didn't expect to be effected this way. >> why is it so important to find that first slightly universe, bint history book of the universe of which at the very last page, you and i are excess staffing. it's the toddler picture of the universe. we've never seeing that. >> but those early cosmic childhood chapters are complex. >> and patients is not only virtuous, but necessary. there's spectroscopy, hundreds of images that all had to be stitched together, mosaic in a very fine way. hey, and then to go from this kinda crazy image to an understanding from the star that was there before what it was doing in the stages leading up to its final death? tremendous explosion. >> it's an autopsy of this dead star opening an image for the first time and seeing something that you do not know what to expect and seeing aspects of that image that just blow you away and that is the beginning of an adventure that will take years to explore follow-up observations of what is that, what is this? >> how does that work? >> everybody is amazed we are answering questions today that we've always wanted the answer. but we're answering questions that we don't even know what the questions are so when you finally first saw this image, the image that webb took of cache what did you think? i was blown away so walk me through exactly what we're seeing in this image. remember, this is a violent explosion and it's enormous to give you some sense of scale to go from one side to another takes approximately 12 years. so that should give you a sense of physical size tremendous the red is mostly the star before the explosion. the white is mostly the star is explosion then we have this mysterious thing in the center, that kind of draws in the eye the green then we've been calling it the green monster. that was a source of mystery for a long time. and we've been working hard with our team to make our best estimate about understanding what that is. >> i know you guys are still digging through all the data, but so far, what has webs image of cassie been able to tell you about cassie that you didn't already know, so the key findings for casie include the distribution of gas as a result of the explosion and new understanding about how this explosion produces and destroys dust and dust as the building blocks for solar systems, planets and stars. do you feel like you got the answers that you were looking for or has this it's just generated a whole bunch more questions for you and your team. >> there's this term and austria, the walk about, you get lost in a journey to learn yourself. it almost has been happening this with cassie these images can now serve as treasure maps for follow-up observations to look even more closely let's the process which is research and exploration the answer will come from it. sometimes very different than what we predicted at the beginning. but a process is what makes us so human dan milli salvage and crisp line, both scientists awarded precious time with webb, both searching for answers and deep-space leisure to meet yes, but they'd never met until now when we brought them to the telescope's mission control. >> dance working on cassie, chris is working on enceladus through ends of the planetary spectrum dan has seen the web missions, operations center, but chris, what do you think? >> oh, this is spectacular. this is where the magic happens you all are part of a very rare group of people who have been allowed to use the telescope so far in cycle one. >> and now no cycle to does it? >> i don't know standing here, do you really feel the weight of that chris i feel fortunate we have these questions that have been burning in our minds for the past several months now, and i'm at a loss for words how to exactly describe how i feel again, this has been decades in the making for my career you talk about the emotion of this place, and i was so touched by your reaction when you first walked in here and got to see the web mission operations center for the first time. where do you think that emotion came from? >> oh, yes. that opportunity? >> to be able to not just see the control room, but go inside and sit with the flight ops team the night before i spoken with my parents and they were so supportive of where i'd gotten to in life and it all really overwhelm me in the most happiest of ways. >> i get is your dad sadia who is happy for me and there was a real sense of pride that came out in his voice for me to be able to get where i am to be in this kind of place where i'm doing so and so happy about it it's, it's been a real ride? 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>> today i grew up yes. >> sweats mountains, really dark skies. and for me, looking at the sky is something i started doing. frankly, in kindergarten. first, second grade, and i sat on the roof of the house and looking at the sky and are always found it just amazing for as long as we've been walking on earth, we i've been looking up at the sky, amazed almost obsessed with exploring our universe and finding answers to some difficult questions how did the universe begin? >> how did we get here and are we alone? questions that if answered, will bring us a new perspective on science? a different outlook on life and a resounding hope for the future i heavy burden for just one telescope, decker, large lift off from a tropical rain forest to the edge of time itself here's where it begins a voyage back to the birth of the universe for two years, the james webb telescope has been unveiling are cosmic past. a time machine shedding light on deep-space dark matter. and the beginning of time a light from there has been in the universe coming our way for over 13 billion years. that's how far we are on. i said, do you think webb's going to find it? oh, absolutely. >> mirror segments were coated with a thin layer of pure but maybe the james webb space telescope is more than a time machine maybe it's also a reflection of us and our story seeing these images gives me a sense of hope and optimism. thousands of people from around the planet were able to come together and build this machine for the sake of humanity to increase our knowledge and to make the planet a better place oh, look, okay, let's see, let's see how when you look up at the night sky, do you see the same thing? >> or has it has it changed a bit for you? >> i still have the same sense of wonder that emotional response that the universe is so big and it's only able to reveal its beauty in subtle moments that i can comprehend. >> oh my gosh, that includes looking at the moon i never get tired of it how many times we've all looked at the moon and it's still looks new to me. >> every time that i looked at oh, and it's a perfect phase. oh, you're in for a treat when they had this philosophical moment, i wasn't this telescope in the middle of the desert. >> another common chile can see every single star and you feel so insignificant because you understand that you are speculum dust in this humongous universe. >> but the moment if philosophical happened ten minutes later after that is like, you understand how significant you are to understand your insignificance that was a magical moment is kind of like rekindle your childhood, right? >> because we're all very curious when you first come out and explore this world. it's nice to just look out into the universe or look out into the solar system. and remember that curiosity i see it in my three-year-old son. >> the questions that he asks, and i think it's a curiosity is always there, but we just get busy in our daily lives and we don't always stop to think about these questions now, web is basically giving us these images of the universe. and it's i think making everyone stop again and ponder the vastness the universe and our place in it. it's bringing out that childlike wonder that we all have weight. >> it's happening i know when he's really excited, when he starts like like a rock back and forth a little bit. i do do that. right? yes. >> oh, my gosh. >> oh, my god, lindsay. oh, my god. oh my god there's a there's a momentum that gets started and a lot of screaming, i guess it's like everyone is being taken on a trip to all these wonderful places with his telescope previously, they were trips to the imagination do you remember the moment that you saw the very first images from the webb space telescope my reaction was what you would expect. the excitement of a little kid, but let me tell you the president's reaction we showed the images to him first joe biden was like a little kid. >> we're looking back more than 13 billion years what is it about the webb telescope that makes a nasa administrator a president of the united states it's turn into little kids. it's the sense of discovery discovery unites us. it exciting sas, it challenges us. >> and then inspires us never in my wildest dreams did i ever anticipate that we would have something this spectacular the mesmerizing, the beauty the tremendous value that come from these observations. this is a generational instrument. this is a thrilling time it's a defining moment because we just have never had this kind of resource with webb in space, being able to probe never before seen regions of the data space in the infrared throughout the solar system and the universe james webb, i think, is revealing the cosmic story that spans from galaxies and stars all the way to planets and moons. >> and we're still writing that story the scientists you mad in this hour, crystalline is scheduled to use the james webb telescope this summer is planning to study the water plumes and subsurface oceans. >> i'm one of saturn's moons, which many scientists believe could be the most promising conditions for life outside of earth. thanks for watching the whole story. i'll see you nex