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New Eye on the Universe

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New Eye on the Universe

Season 50 Episode 4 | 53m 31s | CC

Join scientists as they use NASA’s brand new James Webb Space Telescope to peer deep in time to hunt for the first stars and galaxies in our universe, and try to detect the fingerprints of life in the atmospheres of distant exoplanets

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