A View of the Beginning of Time: An Update

<p><i>This week, The Daily is revisiting some of our favorite episodes of the year and checking in on what has happened in the time since they first ran.</i></p><p>In July, NASA released new images captured from a point in space one million miles from Earth. Ancient galaxies carpeting the sky like jewels on black velvet. Fledgling stars shining out from deep within cumulus clouds of interstellar dust.</p><p>Today, we return to our episode about the moment when the James Webb Space Telescope, the largest space observatory ever built, sent its first images back to Earth — and explore what the telescope has discovered since then in its long journey across the universe. </p><p>Guest: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/kenneth-chang" target="_blank"><strong>Kenneth Chang</strong></a>, a science reporter for The New York Times.</p><p><strong>Background reading</strong></p><ul><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/07/12/science/webb-telescope-images-nasa" target="_blank">Here are more scenes</a> of the universe captured by the Webb telescope.</li></ul><p>For more information on today’s episode, visit <a href="http://nytimes.com/thedaily?smid=pc-thedaily">nytimes.com/thedaily</a>. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday. </p>