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The James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, is an $11 billion origins machine. It was engineered to discover the first stars that sparked the cosmic dawn and exoplanets that may harbor alien life. Let's find out what this machine is capable of. I hope you enjoy this one, I enjoyed making it. Thanks for watching.
-Rich

Here's what didn't make it in this video: The Story of Cosmology: https://youtu.be/U6M7_Pt0d14

Timestamps:
0:00 Intro: Webb, Apollo 8 and Hubble
27:45 Webb: The Man and the Telescope
49:32 Webb's Historical Context and Predecessors
1:30:25 The Long Road of Developing Webb
2:03:54 The Inventions Powering Webb
2:57:50 Results Pt 1: First Images (misnumbered in video)
3:54:41 Results Pt 2: Cosmic Dawn: The earliest stars and galaxies
4:19:36 Results Pt 3: Stellar Evolution
4:51:14 Results Pt 4: Exoplanets and searching for Alien Life
5:29:37 DART Impact Footage
5:32:56 Future Telescopes after Webb
5:49:02 Thank you all for watching and the warm support you show me

Credits:
NASA:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/albums
ESA: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images
ESO: https://www.eso.org/public/videos/archive/category/cosmology/
https://webbtelescope.org
Interactive Sky: https://web.wwtassets.org/specials/2022/jwst-release/
https://www.webbcompare.com/
https://esawebb.org/videos/archive/category/transitions/

Webb's Development:
https://jwst-ngst.ucolick.org/assets/docs/NGST_The_Early_Days_of_JWST_STScI_Newsletter-Link.pdf
https://archive.org/details/nextgenerationsp00bely/page/n1
1991 Decadal Survey: https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/1634/the-decade-of-discovery-in-astronomy-and-astrophysics]
HST & Beyond: https://www.stsci.edu/files/live/sites/www/files/home/hst/documentation/_documents/HSTandBeyond.pdf
2001 Decadal Survey: https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/9839/astronomy-and-astrophysics-in-the-new-millennium
https://www.nature.com/articles/440140a
https://spacepolicyonline.com/news/mikulski-to-jwst-workforce-i-saved-you-from-the-tea-party/
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/threat-of-james-webb-space-telescope-cancellation-rattles-astronomy-community/
https://www.news9live.com/science/looking-back-in-time-development-and-delays-of-the-james-webb-space-telescope-142428

Mirrors:
Mirror Production: https://youtu.be/Y_U_MrWcCnE
Comprehensive video on mirrors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1J3208E8jU
Full Mirror OTE in facility: https://youtu.be/PhGfgREoBj4
Light path: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9Z2GbFJWmo
General OTE animations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwkeoA-0SFA
Deployment sequence: https://webbtelescope.org/contents/articles/how-big-is-webb
https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/59726/why-didnt-jwst-include-any-sensors-capable-of-blue-and-green-visible-wavelength
https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/26/james_webb_and_halleys_comet/

Cosmology with Webb:
"Cosmological Distance Calculator" (SV Pilipenko): https://arxiv.org/pdf/1303.5961.pdf
David Butler (youtube channel I highly recommend for astronomy content): https://www.youtube.com/@howfarawayisit
https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-nasas-james-webb-space-telescope-matters-so-much-20211203/ (By Natalie Wolchover)
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/jwsts-first-glimpses-of-early-galaxies-could-break-cosmology/ (By Jonathan O'Callaghan)
https://cns.utexas.edu/news/widest-view-of-early-universe-hints-at-galaxy-among-the-earliest-ever-detected
Alex Filippenko and Lex Fridman: https://youtu.be/thnlEkcXr5w

Stars and Exoplanets with Webb:
https://www.quantamagazine.org/webb-space-telescope-snaps-its-first-photo-of-an-exoplanet-20220901/
https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-trappist-planets
DART impact: https://youtu.be/yaRTBfcHvgo

Webb Scientific Papers:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.01611
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ac90ca:
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022arXiv221105792F/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022arXiv221103896F/abstract
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aca163#ajaca163f2
El Gordo: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.06514.pdf)

Other sources used:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthrise
Elon Musk "FULL SEND" Interview: https://youtu.be/fXS_gkWAIs0

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