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 southwe