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I heard a journalist told that besides images this telescope is capable to see in the past (he referred to the speed of light); what is your opinion on it? If you could understand the Urdu language, I will share a link to that video with you of what he is talking about.
If you are talking about Dr Shahid Masood he is absolutely wrong on this one. We aren't going to be able to see Hazrat Musa 'Alaihis Salam parting the Red Sea, or the pyramids being built. The light from those events, IF it reached space, is now thousands of light years away. Only through some strange gravitational effect would that light reach us. There is a very, very remote possibility (again due to light bending in some strange way due to space-time curvature) that the light from Shaq-al-Qamar (the breaking of Moon into two) could be captured in some fashion, but scientists would have to be looking for it actively. As far as I know, it isn't included in the public agenda of James Webb.