In this image, captured by JWST, has a background of space is black. Thousands of galaxies appear all across the view. Their shapes and colors vary. Some are various shades of orange, others are white

Neil deGrasse Tyson on Pictures from Space

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jul 18, 2022

Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist and director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History, a host of the StarTalk Radio podcast and author of the forthcoming Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization (Henry Holt & Co, 2022), explains why everyone is so excited about the images from the Webb telescope.

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