00:042022 is without a doubt one of the most remarkable years in recent history when it comes to space
00:09at the end of 2021 the james webb space telescope was launched into space beginning the year by
00:14entering its orbit in the lagrange point in late january of 2022 shortly after the 9 billion
00:20telescope began giving us some absolutely incredible views of deep space including a
00:25of a section of the universe with light that was created relatively shortly after the big bang
00:29then in may astronomers were able to capture an image of the black hole at the center of the milky
00:34way called sagittarius a not much to look at but it did prove without a doubt that it was there
00:38as
00:39it was obfuscated by a cloud of debris and gas and it was only the second black hole to ever
00:43be imaged
00:44later in the year china's new space station which when translated is named celestial palace was
00:49completed but that news was quickly outshined by nasa's dart or double asteroid redirection test
00:54that mission had a spacecraft slam into dimorphous a minor planet moon of asteroid didymus altering
01:00its trajectory by just a bit in a proof of concept in case an asteroid is headed earthbound and finally
01:05nasa ended the year by sending the unmanned orion spacecraft to the moon as part of the artemis 1
01:11mission the agency's final test before sending humans back for the first time in over 50 years
