fresh light. but the james webb telescope can see this ancient light that began its journey in some cases at the very beginning of the universe we saw this $10 billion space telescope as it was being packed up for launch webb, vastly more powerful than its predecessor hubble, will circle the sun in a yearly orbit a million miles wider than ours. the people who built webb say it could create whole new fields of science. hubble basically discovered black holes and proved their existence. so that led to a whole science there. so it can really just keep propagating reporter: advance the human race mm-hmm. reporter: scientists will use the sheer power of webb to zoom in on planets we could not reach before now, look inside their alien atmospheres and search for life thousands of scientists are lined up for the data. it s a miraculous gift the chance to get out beyond our planet, see itime n