1 00:00:05,030 --> 00:00:02,570 looking deep into the universe is like 2 00:00:07,070 --> 00:00:05,040 taking a trip down memory lane the 3 00:00:08,930 --> 00:00:07,080 farther from Earth we look the farther 4 00:00:11,450 --> 00:00:08,940 back in time we see 5 00:00:14,150 --> 00:00:11,460 Starlight from the remote past is just 6 00:00:16,070 --> 00:00:14,160 arriving at Earth now telescopes are 7 00:00:18,410 --> 00:00:16,080 time machines for exploring what 8 00:00:21,170 --> 00:00:18,420 happened billions of years ago 9 00:00:23,990 --> 00:00:21,180 but before the Hubble Space Telescope we 10 00:00:26,029 --> 00:00:24,000 could only see so far we had a view that 11 00:00:27,769 --> 00:00:26,039 galaxies were out there a few billion 12 00:00:30,290 --> 00:00:27,779 years back but we didn't know if they 13 00:00:33,470 --> 00:00:30,300 went all the way back to the very 14 00:00:36,650 --> 00:00:33,480 earliest epics in the universe that all 15 00:00:39,110 --> 00:00:36,660 changed when Hubble got on the job in 16 00:00:41,569 --> 00:00:39,120 2003 astronomers used Hubble to look 17 00:00:44,450 --> 00:00:41,579 back in time to within a billion years 18 00:00:47,090 --> 00:00:44,460 after the big bang this was the first 19 00:00:49,250 --> 00:00:47,100 time we were able to explore an age of 20 00:00:50,810 --> 00:00:49,260 the universe we could only dream of 21 00:00:52,910 --> 00:00:50,820 before 22 00:00:56,510 --> 00:00:52,920 the image was called the ultra Deep 23 00:00:59,990 --> 00:00:56,520 Field and that changed everything we saw 24 00:01:02,750 --> 00:01:00,000 things that were much farther away than 25 00:01:04,490 --> 00:01:02,760 any previous observations had shown us 26 00:01:06,289 --> 00:01:04,500 and also when you're looking back when 27 00:01:09,590 --> 00:01:06,299 the universe was less than a million 28 00:01:13,370 --> 00:01:09,600 years old and be able to find objects 29 00:01:15,350 --> 00:01:13,380 that existed at that time liftoff of 30 00:01:17,890 --> 00:01:15,360 space shuttle Appliance when the Hubble 31 00:01:20,390 --> 00:01:17,900 was serviced for the last time in 2008 32 00:01:23,210 --> 00:01:20,400 scientists saw a way to expand our 33 00:01:26,330 --> 00:01:23,220 vision of the universe even further by 34 00:01:29,390 --> 00:01:26,340 using the new infrared camera 35 00:01:31,490 --> 00:01:29,400 we could push out to earlier times we 36 00:01:33,890 --> 00:01:31,500 could find even more distant objects and 37 00:01:36,590 --> 00:01:33,900 we'd ever been able to do before that 38 00:01:38,870 --> 00:01:36,600 new research take the area around 39 00:01:41,270 --> 00:01:38,880 these objects combined with the ultra 40 00:01:44,330 --> 00:01:41,280 deep Fields use of visible light pulled 41 00:01:47,090 --> 00:01:44,340 out and displayed here is now called the 42 00:01:49,310 --> 00:01:47,100 extreme deep field we can't see the 43 00:01:52,310 --> 00:01:49,320 first galaxies but this has put us on 44 00:01:53,170 --> 00:01:52,320 the fringes of that time and so we've 45 00:01:57,109 --> 00:01:53,180 been 46 00:02:00,170 --> 00:01:57,119 sort of focusing in now on when the 47 00:02:03,170 --> 00:02:00,180 first galaxies formed as revealing as 48 00:02:06,350 --> 00:02:03,180 the extreme deep field is 49 00:02:08,510 --> 00:02:06,360 it's only a preview of what lies ahead 50 00:02:10,190 --> 00:02:08,520 we need to take a giant leap forward and 51 00:02:12,290 --> 00:02:10,200 that's what James Webb's face telescope 52 00:02:15,050 --> 00:02:12,300 will do you know it's a hundred times 53 00:02:17,330 --> 00:02:15,060 what Hubble can do so when that flies 54 00:02:19,190 --> 00:02:17,340 you know in minutes it can hours it can 55 00:02:21,410 --> 00:02:19,200 do what we've done on Hubble that have 56 00:02:23,270 --> 00:02:21,420 taken weeks months 57 00:02:25,190 --> 00:02:23,280 it's incredible 58 00:02:27,470 --> 00:02:25,200 what's also incredible is the 59 00:02:31,190 --> 00:02:27,480 realization that this small slice of the 60 00:02:34,009 --> 00:02:31,200 universe is just that a slice multiply 61 00:02:37,430 --> 00:02:34,019 this by 30 million and you get an idea 62 00:02:39,170 --> 00:02:37,440 of just how many galaxies are out there 63 00:02:41,630 --> 00:02:39,180 from the Space Telescope Science