Ultimate Space Telescope
Channel: National Geographic Channel (DStv 181 / StarSat 220)
TX Time: 21h00
Genre: Documentary, Nature, Technology, Science
Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomy's biggest mysteries are finally getting answered.
The world's most complex and innovative telescope is peering into corners of the cosmos never before seen.
Witness the decades-long journey it took just to get off the ground and meet the team capturing some of the greatest space images in human history.
Scientists at NASA were ecstatic when they found 18 images of the same star, but they didn't stop there.
In order to build the perfect telescope, the experts had to arrange the complex machine's mirrors perfectly to capture the star.
By mid-March 2022, all 18 mirrors were working in harmony and NASA's James Webb Space telescope produced its first fully-aligned image.
An image of a single star which turned out to be far more...
Discover what the groundbreaking image revealed and answer some of astronomy's biggest questions.