Cosmic Dawn with Nobel Laureate John Mather | NASA Goddard

Cosmic Dawn with Nobel Laureate John Mather | NASA Goddard

The James Webb Space Telescope is doing something astronomers dreamed about for decades: peering into our universe’s early past, a period known as cosmic dawn. A new NASA+ documentary—also called Cosmic Dawn—chronicles the inside story of Webb’s design, construction, and launch. John Mather, who won the 2006 Nobel Prize for Physics, proposed the telescope and led its science team for decades. In this interview, Mather talks about his life, his research, and the pre-dawn phone call telling him he had won the Nobel Prize.

Learn more about the Webb Telescope:
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/webb/

Video Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Ryan Fitzgibbons (eMITS/AMA): Producer, Editor
Padi Boyd (NASA/GSFC): Host
John Mather (NASA/GSFC): Interviewee
Katie Konans (eMITS): Producer
Jacob Pinter (eMITS/AMA): Project Support
Christian Elliott (eMITS/AMA): Project Support
Duration: 17 minutes
Release Date: Dec. 19, 2025

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