NOVA
Season 49 Episode 10 - Ultimate Space Telescope
How did NASA engineers build and launch the most ambitious telescope of all time? Follow the dramatic story of the James Webb Space Telescope—the most complex machine ever launched into space. If it works, scientists believe that this new eye on the universe will peer deeper back in time and space than ever before to the birth of galaxies, and may even be able to “sniff” the atmospheres of exoplanets as we search for signs of life beyond Earth. But getting it to work is no easy task. The telescope is far bigger than its predecessor, the famous Hubble Space Telescope, and it needs to make its observations a million miles away from Earth—so there will be no chance to go out and fix it. That means there’s no room for error; the most ambitious telescope ever built needs to work perfectly. Meet the engineers making it happen and join them on their high stakes journey to uncover new secrets of the universe.
Episodes in Season 49
Arctic Sinkholes
55 min
Secrets in the Scat
55 min
Great Mammoth Mystery
55 min
Augmented
55 min
Determined: Fighting Alzheimer's
55 min
Dinosaur Apocalypse: The New Evidence
55 min
Dinosaur Apocalypse: The Last Day
54 min
Why Ships Crash
54 min
Ice Age Footprints
54 min
Ultimate Space Telescope
54 min
Saving Venice
54 min
Ending HIV in America
54 min
Computers v. Crime
54 min
Can Psychedelics Cure?
54 min
Ocean Invaders
54 min
Nazca Desert Mystery
54 min
Crypto Decoded
53 min
Zero to Infinity
54 min
Rebuilding Notre Dame
54 min
