We have spotted the oldest black hole yet. Discovered infant galaxies fresh after the Big Bang. Found exoplanets orbiting dead stars. Seen “rogue” planetary-mass objects. All thanks to a marvellous new machine.

Mark McCaughrean, Senior Scientific Advisor at European Space Agency and co-founder of Space Rocks, tells the story of the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope – why it was built, how it’s looking back into spacetime to the very origins of our universe, and its jaw drop finds.

Watch this riveting presentation by a chronicler of the cosmos.