(12 Jul 2024)
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1. Various of image of two merging galaxies, known as 'the penguin and the egg', newly released by NASA
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Space - 25 December 2021
2. James Webb Space Telescope floating in space
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3. Animation of James Webb Space Telescope unfolding the left wing of it primary mirror ++MUTE++
4. Animation of James Webb Space Telescope unfolding the right wing of it primary mirror ++MUTE++
5. Animation of James Webb Space Telescope in space ++MUTE++
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Washington DC - 12 July 2024
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Mark Clampin, NASA Director of Astrophysics: ++PART OVERLAID AT INTERVIEW LOCATION WITH IMAGE OF MERGING GALAXIES++
"Astronomers call it 'the Penguin and the Egg' and what you're seeing are a very old galaxy, which is the egg to the left, and on the right you this incredibly distorted galaxy which was once a spiral galaxy, and these two are actually interacting with each other and the gravitational attraction is basically tearing that galaxy up and breaking the spirals and it's basically at the same time pulling gas and stars out of what was a spiral galaxy and they are crashing into each each other and creating waves of new star formation as these two galaxies merge."
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Guiana Space Center, Kourou - 25 December 2021
7. Various of European Ariane rocket countdown and launch
8. Various of mission control
9. Various of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope floating away into space ++QUALITY AS INCOMING++
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Washington DC - 12 July 2024
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10. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Mark Clampin , NASA Director of Astrophysics: ++PART OVERLAID AT INTERVIEW LOCATION WITH IMAGE OF SPACE++
"I'm really excited about the very early universe, so we built Webb to look for the very first galaxies that formed in the universe. We've already found a galaxy that was present 300 million years after the Big Bang. And as we start to study more of these with Webb we found a lot of surprises, these galaxies are very massive, they're very bright,. And that raises the question: how did they get so big and so bright so quickly in the early universe. So as we do more and more observations with Webb, we will be able to answer that question, and that is really a key question in understanding how the universe was born and how it's evolving."
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11. Various of James Webb Space Telescope in clean room ++MUTE++
LEADIN:
NASA has released a new image of two merging galaxies, taken by the James Webb Space Telescope.
It marks two years since the telescope began its mission to explore further into the universe than humans have ever seen.
STORYLINE:
A glimpse of the universe.
This is a new image of two merging galaxies.
The image was taken by the James Webb Space Telescope as it collects information from its position 1.5 million kilometres away from Earth.
NASA scientists think the image shows a key step in how galaxies merge and become very massive galaxies.
The telescope was launched on December 25, 2021 from the Guiana Space Center, Kourou.
It began scientific operations two years ago.
It has been designed to look at infrared, which is heat radiation.
Webb is billed as something of a time machine as it uncovers the mysteries of how our universe began.
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