I remember looking forward to this telescope back in high school. I'm now 35. No one at work gave a shit, but I was so excited when it launched. I've been branded the "space nerd" given my excitement about "some space shuttle" 🙄 but I don't care. This is an incredible feat of engineering that still continues to dumbfound me without having even taken a single photo yet.
i’m in high school and i’ve been labeled a space nerd as well for being excited for the launch, but when webb finally starts functioning everyone will realize why we cared so much.
People are dumb. Don't give two shits about literally how our universe was created, the first stars, the secrets behind our existence, the history of our universe, habitable planets. Then be hyped about some playboy carti concert.
I have a family member who was one member of a team among many, many engineers that worked on and relentlessly tested the deployment of the solar shield. Whenever a stage of James Webb's deployment was completed, it just made me that much more excited. It's incredible, if not miraculous that not only did nothing go wrong, but the telescope's lifetime is extended from original projections.
Without a doubt, SEA produces the very highest quality videos of scientific subjects. Every one of the productions astonishes in its clarity of language and command of cutting-edge knowledge. Ten thumbs up!
I just want to thank our French partners for flawlessly launching JWST into the precise trajectory it needed to be to reach L2 with little to no need for correction. Tu es notre plus grand ami et nous t'aimons tendrement.
Very few people get the opportunity to do something in life which leaves a mark or a meaningful contribution to future generations. Your father was one of the lucky ones :)
@@cobrazax Yeah, PBS Spacetime is too obtuse and over-complicated and often kinda poorly explained/presented (IMO), and Scishow space is the opposite, over simplified, sensationalized and derpified for the masses. Anton Petrov and SEA are my two favorite space shows I've seen. Though Anton does tend to dither on too much in an effort to hit that golden 10 minute mark but I don't hold that against him. Scott Manley is good too.
@@planescaped Well melodysheep is great too, but i dont think they focus on exactly the same things. He also doesnt explain things with his own voice, if any.
@@cobrazax melodysheep’s videos are of a quality I cannot attain. They are so flawlessly produced I have no problem in admitting they’re head and shoulders above my content, even if our two approaches to content differ a lot. I try and get better with every video though so hopefully in the long, long term I can get to somewhere close to that level. But that’s a way off yet.
Me toooooo. My lady doesn't understand why I'm so excited by this but imagine everything Hubble has learned but 20-30 more years of technical advancements and scientific know-how. I'm beyond excited for this next era of space exploration.
It just feels par for the course in this timeline that it would break somewhere along the way with all of this hype but so far I have been proved wrong and that makes me elated. I trust that all the scientists and engineers did a pretty much perfect job once they realized nothing less would fly...I cant wait either!
@Black_No_Sugar It has already arrived at the L2 point. Currently its cooling down to operation temperature while getting all 18 of its mirrors focused to be able to take the first photographs by may-june this year. Every single operation so far was said to have gone according to plan. If you ask me, there is no price limit for exploration. Money should never stop innovation.
Not a star nerd, had no real clue why everyone is so excited about James Webb, but I do now, thank you so much for this well made and extremely informative video. I too am now excited for what JW will see.
I couldn't imagine what we can learn from looking even farther back into the universe's lifecycle! Excited doesn't quite encapsulate how i feel about this telescope!
I watched this on a dreary and particularly wet Sunday morning and it lifted me into an excited state of deep wonder and gobsmacked fascination, making me forget about my worldly problems for a good 35 minutes. Thank you so much for being able to do that and giving me something to look forward to in the coming years.
I’ve been subscribed for a while now and I can’t believe this guy isn’t at a million plus subs. This is one of the best astronomy channels on youtube and whenever I get into a conversation about space with people I tell them to come check out this channel. Keep going bro, Ik you’ll get there soon.
@Black_No_Sugar Quit spamming this crap, you have no idea what you're even talking about. Go back to "proving" that the moon is fake or doing your schizophrenic essays about JFK.
I have been waiting for JWST for so many years. I couldn't believe it when it launched. My stomach was in my throat all through the deployment phase. Now we're safely orbiting L2, and things are looking good. Finally, James Webb is where it belongs, instead of sitting in a lab after endless delays.
The James Webb Telescope is so powerful & can see so far back in time it can see Federal Agency NASA’s original promised launch date & budget. In 1996 NASA promised the Webb telescope for a 2007 launch with a $500 million budget. NASA delayed JWST launch 13 times. Current Cost is $11.3 billion to develop, $878 million to operate. 14 years & 1700% over NASA’s promised budget. it's important to remember that, despite the scientific and engineering triumphs, JWST was another serious Nasa management fuck up & yet another irresponsible schedule/budget disaster, 14 years & $9.5 billion over budget. Private industry could have produced & launched the JWST telescope at 1/10 the price in 1/10 the time, had it in place 15 years ago. Nasa is government & Government is greed, waste, incompetence, & corruption.
@@warrenwhite9085 I'd like to touch on what you mentioned about the private industry being able to produce results at one tenth the price and time. And that is...you are absolutely correct about that. I am personally extremely relieved that SpaceX exists.
This telescope is a prime example of what can be achieved when the best and brightest of all our nation’s space program’s work together. I remember listening to one of my American buddies stating that he thought it was foolish for the ESA to handle the launch instead of NASA. Man I was happy to see the ESA help Jam his foot right in his mouth. I mean having such an efficient launch that the ESA saved enough fuel to possibly extend the mission by a decade. If the ESA hadn’t contributed a penny other than handling that launch it would’ve been worth it as 5 to 10 years of extra telescope time with Webb is darn near priceless to Astronomy! Amazing!
I was away spending Christmas with my grandad and staying in a wee cabin with my parents. I insisted on waking my mum to watch the launch because this was one of the most momentous events in my lifetime. I'm still amazed that it went so perfectly, it's almost unbelievable.
I cannot express how much I love your videos... Your style of narrating, the delivery with all of its contents is so amazingly done! Thank you for making so informative and enjoyable videos of such high quality about one of my favorite topics in existence!
I think the desire to study distant space like black holes, galaxies, exoplanets, etc, is such a beautifully human thing. We've been staring at the stars since the dawn of our species, and here we are launching the most advanced telescope we've ever made to peer back to the beginning of time itself. I love space.
Yours was a wonderful, passionate homage to the JWST and that telescope, its designers, scientists, and engineers are due great praise. However, I would differ slightly about the "new age" characterization for the JWST. Rather, I would see the JWST as an extension (amazing, complex and awe-inspiring!) along the same direction of optical telescopes we have been on for centuries. My candidate for the "new age" in cosmology is the first generation of gravitational wave detectors--LIGO and VIRGO--as they introduced a whole new dimension ("listening" as some call it) to the discovery of the universe.
perhaps in 30 years we will have an array of space based LIGO spanning hundreds of thousands of km, able to detect what is too wide to measure from Earth. So far, LIGO only measures black hole collisions but we could be detecting far lower frequencies from a space based LIGO.
I'm so glad I only knew about this telescope for about a year. Had I known about it, back when the project started all the delays would have driven me insane because of how exciting of a project this is and how eager I am to know what it discovers! I feel bad for those who have been waiting since the beginning and the torture they've endured 😭
This wait for the photos is killing me, I can’t imagine waiting 15 years for the launch and then having to hold on for a few more months to capture photos
It blows my mind how complex and difficult it must have been to build this telescope, especially knowing that once it's launched, that's it. There's no going up there to fix it. It makes total sense that it took so long and ran so far over budget. It must have been the most stressful 2 weeks of those scientists lives when it launched.
Can't imagine pouring so much time into it n waiting those 2 weeks. What a great feeling when it all went to plan tho, such an amazing piece of engineering. Baffling what we can accomplish when we put our best n brightest on something, plus reasonable funding. We can do anything with a few billion n some geniuses
As far as i've heard, the ariane 5 performed so perfectly on launch, that the jwst needed less fuel than hoped to reach L2, so its predicted lifetime is now over 15 years! Great Video about a amazing piece of technology :)
Outstanding production work on this chronology of JWST 30 plus years in the making. It is astonishing what “we” are capable of doing at this stage of human history, and makes me wonder how far we will be able to advance the frontier of knowledge in the next decades thanks to the exponential growth and convergence of technologies.
I still remember when I first laid eyes on the full size hubble deep field. It took such a long time for my dial up connection to download, but by the time it was complete I took a couple of puffs of the strongest weed and just looked in shear awe at it. That image broke me down to the deepest parts of my existence
I heard recently that the expected operational life is now 20+ years, and that it's pretty much in the bag if nothing breaks. I know it's a zero-sum game with the fuel, and they saved back a lot by the perfect launch. But 20 years ... that's even better than I expected. I thought that, at L2, the earth and sun's gravity both pull the telescope in (roughly) the same direction, with that collective pull being offset by the centrifugal force of the telescope's orbital loop (ellipse). And the centripetal force in the secondary orbit around L2 derives from it being pulled back toward the centerpoint of that same collective linear pull, of the earth and sun. And it's pretty cool that neither gravity nor the centrifugal force are actually forces at all.
With new technology and development, and the focus on space travel, Im sure there will be a practical way to service Webb in a decades time, and even replace its parts with superior instruments.
@@CryWolfFilms it's true. I do think (though I'm not sure) that the kind of chronic dings that (so I'm told) have accumulated over the years on ISS are more characteristic of low Earth orbit, as opposed to Webb's big lap around L2. That said, you're right, it could surely happen. One such ding on the primary mirror and we do the unhappy math. Now that you mention it, I guess I don't know what's actually dinging ISS -- i.e. is it human-made junk or natural particles??
I love these longer videos man. I will watch them over and over again before bed. You have an incredible talent and create some stunning compositions. Keep up the good work and thank you from New York!
Congratulations to the engineers and scientists at NASA, CSA and ESA for their monumental achievement. I can't put into words how exciting these next few years are going to be!! :D Wonderful narration and production as always dude. Keep up the great work!
I’m so fucking lucky to live during this. I set an alarm for 4am to watch lift off and spent Christmas with my very loving but annoyed girlfriend of over 10 years pacing around her moms house watching everything go down live. I’ve been waiting ever since I first heard about this “Mega Hubble” in 2007 when I first started really being interested in space. Humanity can do some good every now and again.
I've been following the JWST's progress over at "The Launch Pad" and it truly is an amazing piece of engineering, bigger than the pyramids. The near perfect launch on Christmas Day actually extended the telescope's potential lifespan to up to 20 years.
I've seen several YT videos about JWST and must say yours is easily the best one. Also, I presume you've seen the official JWST poster, but if not, I urge you to do so. It's a masterpiece. I had to order a professional print for myself.
I've been present from the creation of the space age and the earliest touches of space by man. From the X - 15 through sputnik and Glen. From one small step for mankind to hubble and the dreams of returning to the moon. I've watched and dreamed of space and what we could learn. And learn we did. But nothing like what we are soon to learn from James Webb. How amazing to live in these times.
I cant wait to see webbs "Pillars of creation" moment but the thing im most excited for is the unknown unknowns. The questions we are not smart enough to know to ask but may get answers to, and the next set of questions that leads to.
Two friends came by to say happy Christmas, both in a hurry to get home and watch the launch, but neither of us knew the other two guys was going to watch it. Long story short, my tv was on and we were all space nerds that ended up watching it together.
Having seen the initial image used to check the individual mirror position correctness I can say the picture was mind blowing. So so so so much clearer than the other infrared telescope and zoomed in so much further and even zoomed in it’s still so clear. That test image discovered a heap of new galaxies as well and I bet someone is measuring and classifying those already.
Perfect. Exactly the information I wanted to learn. I watched 20 other videos but none of them covered the material we wanted to learn. None of them covered that next level of detail that this video does.
I can't remember being this excited about anything in my whole life. And I'm 61. It's a phenomenal achievement and I can't wait to see what it discovers. Hands down to those 140.000 scientists and engineers responsible for this magnificent instrument.
And now in July, we are receiving mind blowing details of objects in degrees hitherto undreamt of. Fascinating how much work went into making this miracle of a telescope functional! We can now observe the atmospheric conditions of exoplanets, see baby stars inside star making gas clouds, dwarf stars inside nebulae, etc. Mind blowing!
This video is eloquently and beautifully done. Always happy to see information given in a way that can make the average person excited about science and physics. I'm having a viewing party when the first images come back! So much to look forward to! Thank you for this great video. Best wishes!🙏🥰
This is a testament of what human kind can aspire to and achieve, and also a guide light into our future. Congratulations to all the thousands of scientists and specially to the engineers involved. You are human kind's best.
I had to watch this again. It is the definitive JWST video. 5 stars. It's production, presentation, exposition, narration and educational value are the best I've seen. Everyone should watch it again. I found that there were things I hadn't noticed the first time. Well done, SEA!
I was actually wondering if SEA had already uploaded a new video since the last one three months ago, then I came, checked and realised my expectations were fulfilled hahaha Now after watching this new piece of information, I feel even more excited about all the descoveries and amazing new-coming images we'll see from this groundbreaking masterpiece, the James Webb Telescope UwU
Great video. The only thing I'd disagree with is the sentence you ended the video with: "For hundreds of years, people will look back on Christmas Day, 2021, as the start of the new age in astronomy." No way. If there's a telescope-related milestone date that will be thought of for hundreds of years, it'll be the launch of the first space telescope. The JWST is obviously a tremendous upgrade, but it's a stepping stone after the Hubble telescope. Ask yourself if you can name the crew on the second manned moon mission if you need evidence.
So you think that there can only be one "new age in astronomy"? And Hubble wasn't the first. OAO-2 was the first imager in space in 1968, an ultraviolet telescope. The original OAO (cleverly named Orbiting Astronomical Observatory) had failed in orbit in 1966 and never returned any data. There was an OAO-3 in 1972 and a whole bunch of others before Hubble in 1990. By the way, that Nancy Grace Roman space telescope (née WFIRST) that you are going to hear a lot about? She was NASA's Chief of Astronomy at this time. Other countries flew space telescopes before Hubble. The Netherlands' first satellite in 1974 was a space telescope. Hipparchos, the ESA survey satellite, whose astrometry data catalog bears its name, flew before Hubble. Hubble was the first of the "Great Observatories" program. I'd call JWST the upgrade to Spitzer, another Great Observatory, rather than Hubble. It can't see very far into the visible and not at all into the ultraviolet. Its bread and butter is IR.
Let's see what it manages to show us. *That* is what will ultimately cement its place in history. I do have hopeful expectations. I think it will be thought of as more than just Hubble v2.0
@@Markle2k nope. Didn’t say there could only be one age of astronomy. The past gets compressed as you move into the future though. Can you name 10 people who were alive in the 1500s without using some kinda reference materials? There aren’t that many dates that people have memorized related to astronomy. Do you know the launch date of the Hubble telescope off the top of your head? The JWST is a huge upgrade. I’m excited. You’re probably excited. We are the sorta folks who watch SEA videos though. I was just saying that if there’s any telescope that people are still talking about in a few hundred years, it’s gonna be the Hubble. Something unforeseen could happen. Maybe the JWST discovers undeniable proof of alien life somewhere or it’s course-correcting thrusters fail and it falls out of orbit ends up crashing into the space station or something. A miracle or tragedy could make it memorable for sure. If all we get are higher resolution images or a look a bit further into the past though, there’s no way this project will be something people are familiar with in, like, 2350 or something.
Your content is incredible. Thanks for the effort you put in to each and every video you post. Every single one makes me feel like a child again full of wonder and curiosity. I hope to see many more of them in the future.
I wonder what the JWT would find in places like the Boötes Void. Maybe it's not so much of a void anyway, but filled with some of the Universe's first galaxies. I'm so much looking forward to the first images from this incredible piece of engineering. And a big thanks for another fantastic video, SEA. Greetings from Denmark
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I remember looking forward to this telescope back in high school. I'm now 35. No one at work gave a shit, but I was so excited when it launched. I've been branded the "space nerd" given my excitement about "some space shuttle" 🙄 but I don't care. This is an incredible feat of engineering that still continues to dumbfound me without having even taken a single photo yet.
Webb is amazing!
i’m in high school and i’ve been labeled a space nerd as well for being excited for the launch, but when webb finally starts functioning everyone will realize why we cared so much.
You are not alone brother, I was super excited about this telescope!!!
People are dumb. Don't give two shits about literally how our universe was created, the first stars, the secrets behind our existence, the history of our universe, habitable planets. Then be hyped about some playboy carti concert.
@@blazo8700 they think they are the center of the universe becuase it fulfills their need to be important when in reality we mean nothing
I have a family member who was one member of a team among many, many engineers that worked on and relentlessly tested the deployment of the solar shield. Whenever a stage of James Webb's deployment was completed, it just made me that much more excited. It's incredible, if not miraculous that not only did nothing go wrong, but the telescope's lifetime is extended from original projections.
Whos your family member?
Cool!!
@@MBicknell james webb
source : trust me bro
I'll take "shit that never happened" for 500
Without a doubt, SEA produces the very highest quality videos of scientific subjects. Every one of the productions astonishes in its clarity of language and command of cutting-edge knowledge. Ten thumbs up!
Agree,it is a high quality channel !
I think astrum and pbs science are up there too
Why is a 14 year-old narrating this?
Event Horizon, not just elementary stuff.
World Science Festival?
He kinda sounds like a valley girl tho...
I just want to thank our French partners for flawlessly launching JWST into the precise trajectory it needed to be to reach L2 with little to no need for correction. Tu es notre plus grand ami et nous t'aimons tendrement.
My dad was one of them that built one of them rockets in 1996. So my dad will always be rememberd that way even after he passed away 10 years ago 😁
Very few people get the opportunity to do something in life which leaves a mark or a meaningful contribution to future generations. Your father was one of the lucky ones :)
Wonderful work here SEA. As usual. You have created my absolute favorite cosmology channel on the entirety of the internet. Thank you very much.
Great namesake, fantastic movie.
this one is hand down the best! i can barely think of anything that even comes close!
@@cobrazax Yeah, PBS Spacetime is too obtuse and over-complicated and often kinda poorly explained/presented (IMO), and Scishow space is the opposite, over simplified, sensationalized and derpified for the masses.
Anton Petrov and SEA are my two favorite space shows I've seen. Though Anton does tend to dither on too much in an effort to hit that golden 10 minute mark but I don't hold that against him.
Scott Manley is good too.
@@planescaped
Well melodysheep is great too, but i dont think they focus on exactly the same things. He also doesnt explain things with his own voice, if any.
@@cobrazax melodysheep’s videos are of a quality I cannot attain. They are so flawlessly produced I have no problem in admitting they’re head and shoulders above my content, even if our two approaches to content differ a lot. I try and get better with every video though so hopefully in the long, long term I can get to somewhere close to that level. But that’s a way off yet.
Can't wait to see some of the first photos from the JW telescope! It really is amazing how advanced it is and what it will be able to show us...
Me toooooo. My lady doesn't understand why I'm so excited by this but imagine everything Hubble has learned but 20-30 more years of technical advancements and scientific know-how. I'm beyond excited for this next era of space exploration.
It just feels par for the course in this timeline that it would break somewhere along the way with all of this hype but so far I have been proved wrong and that makes me elated. I trust that all the scientists and engineers did a pretty much perfect job once they realized nothing less would fly...I cant wait either!
Man, imagine how horrible it'd be to die before the images come out...
@@planescaped don't you put that evil on us Ricky Bobby
@E Van You're not gonna be able to see much else it is what it is there's limitations to this kind of stuff
what a time to be alive, we get so used to talk about history, things in the past, I can't wait to see what comes next.
@Black_No_Sugar It has already arrived at the L2 point. Currently its cooling down to operation temperature while getting all 18 of its mirrors focused to be able to take the first photographs by may-june this year. Every single operation so far was said to have gone according to plan. If you ask me, there is no price limit for exploration. Money should never stop innovation.
Not a star nerd, had no real clue why everyone is so excited about James Webb, but I do now, thank you so much for this well made and extremely informative video. I too am now excited for what JW will see.
I couldn't imagine what we can learn from looking even farther back into the universe's lifecycle! Excited doesn't quite encapsulate how i feel about this telescope!
I don’t care what we see, it ain’t worth the money spent on it.
Nice bait try again
Excellent! I was born In 1958 and have grown up during the entire space age... this mission is the culmination of everything that came before it.
Class of “76” !!!!
I could resist the urge to say that most all things are the culmination of what came before but I won't.
This video gave me so much hype for JWST, keep up the good work!!
@Black_No_Sugar Lay off the coffee there bud.
@Black_No_Sugar 'ight
Seconded!!
Funny seeing you here.
I watched this on a dreary and particularly wet Sunday morning and it lifted me into an excited state of deep wonder and gobsmacked fascination, making me forget about my worldly problems for a good 35 minutes. Thank you so much for being able to do that and giving me something to look forward to in the coming years.
Hello Bro Would you want to Know that something is Beyond our Imagination.
Another exceptionally high quality production. Beautifully lucid explanations as always. I loved the Transit Method graphic.
@Black_No_Sugar Murphy's Law is further proven by your existence.
I’ve been subscribed for a while now and I can’t believe this guy isn’t at a million plus subs. This is one of the best astronomy channels on youtube and whenever I get into a conversation about space with people I tell them to come check out this channel. Keep going bro, Ik you’ll get there soon.
@Black_No_Sugar Quit spamming this crap, you have no idea what you're even talking about. Go back to "proving" that the moon is fake or doing your schizophrenic essays about JFK.
Finally, an informative science and exploration channel that gives a quality analysis of the JWTS instead of click baiting it every 3 videos.
I have been waiting for JWST for so many years. I couldn't believe it when it launched. My stomach was in my throat all through the deployment phase. Now we're safely orbiting L2, and things are looking good. Finally, James Webb is where it belongs, instead of sitting in a lab after endless delays.
I loved the book but I’m assuming your username is based on!
@@leonettab7479 Slinky Malinki opened the door....
The James Webb Telescope is so powerful & can see so far back in time it can see Federal Agency NASA’s original promised launch date & budget. In 1996 NASA promised the Webb telescope for a 2007 launch with a $500 million budget. NASA delayed JWST launch 13 times. Current Cost is $11.3 billion to develop, $878 million to operate. 14 years & 1700% over NASA’s promised budget. it's important to remember that, despite the scientific and engineering triumphs, JWST was another serious Nasa management fuck up & yet another irresponsible schedule/budget disaster, 14 years & $9.5 billion over budget. Private industry could have produced & launched the JWST telescope at 1/10 the price in 1/10 the time, had it in place 15 years ago. Nasa is government & Government is greed, waste, incompetence, & corruption.
What else in your throat?
@@warrenwhite9085 I'd like to touch on what you mentioned about the private industry being able to produce results at one tenth the price and time. And that is...you are absolutely correct about that. I am personally extremely relieved that SpaceX exists.
This telescope is a prime example of what can be achieved when the best and brightest of all our nation’s space program’s work together.
I remember listening to one of my American buddies stating that he thought it was foolish for the ESA to handle the launch instead of NASA.
Man I was happy to see the ESA help Jam his foot right in his mouth. I mean having such an efficient launch that the ESA saved enough fuel to possibly extend the mission by a decade.
If the ESA hadn’t contributed a penny other than handling that launch it would’ve been worth it as 5 to 10 years of extra telescope time with Webb is darn near priceless to Astronomy!
Amazing!
I got tears. This is history in the making. And this here is your best video so far. I am so happy this channel exists. Thank you so much. ❤
I was away spending Christmas with my grandad and staying in a wee cabin with my parents. I insisted on waking my mum to watch the launch because this was one of the most momentous events in my lifetime. I'm still amazed that it went so perfectly, it's almost unbelievable.
I cannot express how much I love your videos... Your style of narrating, the delivery with all of its contents is so amazingly done! Thank you for making so informative and enjoyable videos of such high quality about one of my favorite topics in existence!
I think the desire to study distant space like black holes, galaxies, exoplanets, etc, is such a beautifully human thing. We've been staring at the stars since the dawn of our species, and here we are launching the most advanced telescope we've ever made to peer back to the beginning of time itself.
I love space.
Yours was a wonderful, passionate homage to the JWST and that telescope, its designers, scientists, and engineers are due great praise. However, I would differ slightly about the "new age" characterization for the JWST. Rather, I would see the JWST as an extension (amazing, complex and awe-inspiring!) along the same direction of optical telescopes we have been on for centuries. My candidate for the "new age" in cosmology is the first generation of gravitational wave detectors--LIGO and VIRGO--as they introduced a whole new dimension ("listening" as some call it) to the discovery of the universe.
perhaps in 30 years we will have an array of space based LIGO spanning hundreds of thousands of km, able to detect what is too wide to measure from Earth. So far, LIGO only measures black hole collisions but we could be detecting far lower frequencies from a space based LIGO.
Yes! LIGO! Once again proving that 'ol Uncle Albert was never wrong 😊
Have you also heard of the new LIGMA telescopes?
Probably the best channel on RUclips. Simply outstanding.
I'm so glad I only knew about this telescope for about a year. Had I known about it, back when the project started all the delays would have driven me insane because of how exciting of a project this is and how eager I am to know what it discovers!
I feel bad for those who have been waiting since the beginning and the torture they've endured 😭
This wait for the photos is killing me, I can’t imagine waiting 15 years for the launch and then having to hold on for a few more months to capture photos
Fantastic work! Every video you drop is a jewel!
It blows my mind how complex and difficult it must have been to build this telescope, especially knowing that once it's launched, that's it. There's no going up there to fix it. It makes total sense that it took so long and ran so far over budget. It must have been the most stressful 2 weeks of those scientists lives when it launched.
Can't imagine pouring so much time into it n waiting those 2 weeks. What a great feeling when it all went to plan tho, such an amazing piece of engineering. Baffling what we can accomplish when we put our best n brightest on something, plus reasonable funding. We can do anything with a few billion n some geniuses
What an amazing documentary, so glad i clicked that video! Great job, i feel so honored to be part of this journey!
As far as i've heard, the ariane 5 performed so perfectly on launch, that the jwst needed less fuel than hoped to reach L2, so its predicted lifetime is now over 15 years!
Great Video about a amazing piece of technology :)
I’ve heard upwards of 20 but that HM7 upper stage is pretty impressive for efficiency and exact speed insertions.
I'm an AVID science RUclips browser. Dude this page is one greatest finds of my near 30 life. Such an impressive overall experience.
Outstanding production work on this chronology of JWST 30 plus years in the making. It is astonishing what “we” are capable of doing at this stage of human history, and makes me wonder how far we will be able to advance the frontier of knowledge in the next decades thanks to the exponential growth and convergence of technologies.
I still remember when I first laid eyes on the full size hubble deep field. It took such a long time for my dial up connection to download, but by the time it was complete I took a couple of puffs of the strongest weed and just looked in shear awe at it. That image broke me down to the deepest parts of my existence
This is probably in my top 3 favorite channels on RUclips. Thank you for all your hard work to bring us this excellent content.
Thanks for the way you concluded this video. It is so critical that the next generation of explorers be excited and inspired to continue the journey.
I heard recently that the expected operational life is now 20+ years, and that it's pretty much in the bag if nothing breaks. I know it's a zero-sum game with the fuel, and they saved back a lot by the perfect launch. But 20 years ... that's even better than I expected.
I thought that, at L2, the earth and sun's gravity both pull the telescope in (roughly) the same direction, with that collective pull being offset by the centrifugal force of the telescope's orbital loop (ellipse). And the centripetal force in the secondary orbit around L2 derives from it being pulled back toward the centerpoint of that same collective linear pull, of the earth and sun. And it's pretty cool that neither gravity nor the centrifugal force are actually forces at all.
With new technology and development, and the focus on space travel, Im sure there will be a practical way to service Webb in a decades time, and even replace its parts with superior instruments.
Also keep in mind space debris could hit this telescope at any time.
@@CryWolfFilms it's true. I do think (though I'm not sure) that the kind of chronic dings that (so I'm told) have accumulated over the years on ISS are more characteristic of low Earth orbit, as opposed to Webb's big lap around L2. That said, you're right, it could surely happen. One such ding on the primary mirror and we do the unhappy math. Now that you mention it, I guess I don't know what's actually dinging ISS -- i.e. is it human-made junk or natural particles??
I love these longer videos man. I will watch them over and over again before bed. You have an incredible talent and create some stunning compositions. Keep up the good work and thank you from New York!
Congratulations to the engineers and scientists at NASA, CSA and ESA for their monumental achievement. I can't put into words how exciting these next few years are going to be!! :D
Wonderful narration and production as always dude. Keep up the great work!
Somehow the CSA didnt get any credit in ur comment sad times indeed
@@halinaqi2194 due to me being uninformed. Sorry about that. Didn't mean to leave Canada out!
Ridiculously absurd.
I’m so fucking lucky to live during this. I set an alarm for 4am to watch lift off and spent Christmas with my very loving but annoyed girlfriend of over 10 years pacing around her moms house watching everything go down live. I’ve been waiting ever since I first heard about this “Mega Hubble” in 2007 when I first started really being interested in space. Humanity can do some good every now and again.
the man behind SEA is a genius! best space content on YT.. unbelievable
I've been following the JWST's progress over at "The Launch Pad" and it truly is an amazing piece of engineering, bigger than the pyramids.
The near perfect launch on Christmas Day actually extended the telescope's potential lifespan to up to 20 years.
Your videos are unbelievable, the best quality of anyone!
I've been following the jwst project since I was in middle school, and my excitement only continues to grow. Fantastic video.
SEA and David Butler are two gems of astronomy topics on RUclips , i respect the effort they put in their videos
JWST had such an efficient launch that it is now expected to last around 15 years now.
You can always depend upon SEA to produce the finest science videos. This JWST episode is simply fantastic! Thank you, SEA
Thank you for this inspiring and beautiful video about JWST. I love your work.
Fantastic job. You fellas are crushing it with regard to these informational videos.
I've seen several YT videos about JWST and must say yours is easily the best one.
Also, I presume you've seen the official JWST poster, but if not, I urge you to do so. It's a masterpiece. I had to order a professional print for myself.
I've been present from the creation of the space age and the earliest touches of space by man. From the X - 15 through sputnik and Glen. From one small step for mankind to hubble and the dreams of returning to the moon. I've watched and dreamed of space and what we could learn. And learn we did. But nothing like what we are soon to learn from James Webb. How amazing to live in these times.
For SEA videos, I hit the like button before even watching them They're always amazingly good content.
Possibly the best Webb documentary and universe formation lesson I've ever seen. I learned so much. Bravo!
I cant wait to see webbs "Pillars of creation" moment but the thing im most excited for is the unknown unknowns. The questions we are not smart enough to know to ask but may get answers to, and the next set of questions that leads to.
Two friends came by to say happy Christmas, both in a hurry to get home and watch the launch, but neither of us knew the other two guys was going to watch it. Long story short, my tv was on and we were all space nerds that ended up watching it together.
Favorite video on JWST I've seen. Clear, concise, and informative. Thank you for putting so much work into it!
Feels microscopicly broken down to digestible bits for retention. Love it
These are the best space documentaries currently on the net , keep up the good work
Having seen the initial image used to check the individual mirror position correctness I can say the picture was mind blowing. So so so so much clearer than the other infrared telescope and zoomed in so much further and even zoomed in it’s still so clear. That test image discovered a heap of new galaxies as well and I bet someone is measuring and classifying those already.
Perfect. Exactly the information I wanted to learn. I watched 20 other videos but none of them covered the material we wanted to learn. None of them covered that next level of detail that this video does.
I can't remember being this excited about anything in my whole life. And I'm 61. It's a phenomenal achievement and I can't wait to see what it discovers. Hands down to those 140.000 scientists and engineers responsible for this magnificent instrument.
Finally SEA and JWST have been waiting for this
best video i've seen about webb
The liftoff guys speech about the birth of the universe was really good
Thank you so much! Please keep doing more, your channel is just so incredibly good.
You rock SEA !
And now in July, we are receiving mind blowing details of objects in degrees hitherto undreamt of. Fascinating how much work went into making this miracle of a telescope functional! We can now observe the atmospheric conditions of exoplanets, see baby stars inside star making gas clouds, dwarf stars inside nebulae, etc. Mind blowing!
Absolutely love your content! Thank you for everything you do!
In my humble opinion your voice is by far the best documentary narrative voice in existence. Thank you for continually uploading, SEA!
Brilliant mate. As always, nice work👍
This video is eloquently and beautifully done. Always happy to see information given in a way that can make the average person excited about science and physics. I'm having a viewing party when the first images come back! So much to look forward to! Thank you for this great video. Best wishes!🙏🥰
Bravo,
unparalleled information.
Top channel !!!
Those first photos from JWT will probably be as mind-blowing to us as the first images of Earth were to people in the ‘60s
i think they should name the next telescope or satellite SEA, in honor of this channel's hard work and dedication to the field...
Love the commitment to consistant top shelf releases..you are giving the simple man a view of the previously unknown...Thank you
Best content there is, wonderfully explained. We're so fortunate to witness all of this.
I remember when Hubble finally had its glasses and I would spend crazy amounts of time pouring over the photos. It just keeps getting better!
honestly ur videos are amazing and well made!! I didn't even know Webb took so long to be developed, even b4 I was born! ( I was born in '05)
This is a testament of what human kind can aspire to and achieve, and also a guide light into our future. Congratulations to all the thousands of scientists and specially to the engineers involved. You are human kind's best.
Three years ago I said it once, and three years later I have come back to say it again:
SPACE. IS. BETTER. THAN. PORN.
Nobody can change my mind here.
What about space porn
@@q12aw50 just look at pictures of nebulas 🥵
I had to watch this again. It is the definitive JWST video. 5 stars. It's production, presentation, exposition, narration and educational value are the best I've seen. Everyone should watch it again. I found that there were things I hadn't noticed the first time. Well done, SEA!
Great, great video. Thank you for sharing such informative and high quality content with us!
I always look forward to new content from you! Thank you 😊 🙏
I have been waiting for this for years! I am so damn exited for the first pictures!
Its like a lullaby I fall asleep sometimes watching these videos.
I was actually wondering if SEA had already uploaded a new video since the last one three months ago, then I came, checked and realised my expectations were fulfilled hahaha Now after watching this new piece of information, I feel even more excited about all the descoveries and amazing new-coming images we'll see from this groundbreaking masterpiece, the James Webb Telescope UwU
Never expected an UwU in this comment section 😂
I’m hype I found this video and channel later cuz now I have to wait 2 weeks for crispy photos instead of a handful of months🤝
Another Great Video. #SEA
Thanks! Been waiting for the SEA version of the JWT story.
only legends remember SEA1997
Another fantastic and beautifully done video! One more to add to the list that should be shown in schools everywhere.
I adore your content. Never stop bro. 🤜🤛
May we all find someone who talks about us with the same excitement that this guy talks about the james webb telescope ❤️❤️❤️
Great narration and explanation of what the James Webb telescope has done and will do!!
awesome video dude!
loving the content lately, thanks a ton
This has got to be the most
Under rated RUclips channel there is. Deserves millions of subs
Great video. The only thing I'd disagree with is the sentence you ended the video with: "For hundreds of years, people will look back on Christmas Day, 2021, as the start of the new age in astronomy." No way. If there's a telescope-related milestone date that will be thought of for hundreds of years, it'll be the launch of the first space telescope. The JWST is obviously a tremendous upgrade, but it's a stepping stone after the Hubble telescope. Ask yourself if you can name the crew on the second manned moon mission if you need evidence.
So you think that there can only be one "new age in astronomy"? And Hubble wasn't the first. OAO-2 was the first imager in space in 1968, an ultraviolet telescope. The original OAO (cleverly named Orbiting Astronomical Observatory) had failed in orbit in 1966 and never returned any data. There was an OAO-3 in 1972 and a whole bunch of others before Hubble in 1990. By the way, that Nancy Grace Roman space telescope (née WFIRST) that you are going to hear a lot about? She was NASA's Chief of Astronomy at this time. Other countries flew space telescopes before Hubble. The Netherlands' first satellite in 1974 was a space telescope. Hipparchos, the ESA survey satellite, whose astrometry data catalog bears its name, flew before Hubble.
Hubble was the first of the "Great Observatories" program. I'd call JWST the upgrade to Spitzer, another Great Observatory, rather than Hubble. It can't see very far into the visible and not at all into the ultraviolet. Its bread and butter is IR.
Pete Conrad. Al Bean and Richard Gordon. I can name them all.
😎
Idk there has been pretty hot talk lately about James Webb
Let's see what it manages to show us. *That* is what will ultimately cement its place in history.
I do have hopeful expectations.
I think it will be thought of as more than just Hubble v2.0
@@Markle2k nope. Didn’t say there could only be one age of astronomy. The past gets compressed as you move into the future though. Can you name 10 people who were alive in the 1500s without using some kinda reference materials? There aren’t that many dates that people have memorized related to astronomy. Do you know the launch date of the Hubble telescope off the top of your head? The JWST is a huge upgrade. I’m excited. You’re probably excited. We are the sorta folks who watch SEA videos though. I was just saying that if there’s any telescope that people are still talking about in a few hundred years, it’s gonna be the Hubble. Something unforeseen could happen. Maybe the JWST discovers undeniable proof of alien life somewhere or it’s course-correcting thrusters fail and it falls out of orbit ends up crashing into the space station or something. A miracle or tragedy could make it memorable for sure. If all we get are higher resolution images or a look a bit further into the past though, there’s no way this project will be something people are familiar with in, like, 2350 or something.
Your content is incredible. Thanks for the effort you put in to each and every video you post. Every single one makes me feel like a child again full of wonder and curiosity. I hope to see many more of them in the future.
I wonder what the JWT would find in places like the Boötes Void. Maybe it's not so much of a void anyway, but filled with some of the Universe's first galaxies. I'm so much looking forward to the first images from this incredible piece of engineering. And a big thanks for another fantastic video, SEA. Greetings from Denmark
Yeah, I so want for it to look into the big voids like hubble did in it's time... can't wait
That little detail on the Transit Method was beautiful
Oh imagine if we could travel in time to 1608 and bring Hans Lippershey back with us to today. I think he'd be impressed.
Man I actually teared up at the end speech and that’s not easy to do. Can’t wait to see what James Webb uncovers.
Yes!!! FA Cup all day and now this. A great day to be home sick with covid
I'm pretty sure it must be pretty mild covid
Hope you feel better soon
@@potatosmuggler7927 It's not too bad. In good spirits but still shorter on breath than normal and taste is returning.
@@whocares2214 Thank you! Have yourself a great weekend.
Cheers.