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[W: 329] The James Webb Space Telescope Photo Album Thread

CimpleMan said:
www.nature.com

JWST gets first glimpse of 7-planet system with potentially habitable worlds

Astronomers have been eager for the landmark telescope to study the TRAPPIST-1 system.
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What a great article... OUTSTANDING... Easy Read...

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Below is an earlier piece on the Trappist system...

[W: 329] The James Webb Space Telescope Photo Album Thread

Thanks for sharing that. A rocket scientist eh? Did you hear about rocket scientists listing to a presentation by a fellow rocket scientist and not getting it? The presenter in exasperation finally exclaimed, "It's not music theory for God's sake!" :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
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James Webb Space Telescope's 1st year in space has blown astronomers away​

By Keith Cooper published 3 days ago
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James Webb Space Telescope's 1st year in space has blown astronomers away

Astronomers are "amazed" and "blown away" by what JWST has achieved so far.
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Astronomers are "amazed" and "blown away" by what JWST has achieved so far. Just one year after launch, the James Webb Space Telescope is exceeding all expectations, and astronomers are thrilled.

Launched on Dec. 25, 2021, the $10 billion infrared observatory was designed to learn how galaxies form and grow, to peer far back into the universe to the era of the first galaxies, to watch stars being born inside their nebulous embryos in unprecedented detail, and to probe the atmospheres of exoplanets and characterize some of the closest rocky worlds.

However, the complexity of the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb or JWST), including its fold-out, segmented 21-foot (6.5 meters) mirror and its delicate sun-shield the size of a tennis court, meant that astronomers were on tenterhooks as to whether the JWST would perform as hoped.
 

James Webb telescope: Amazing images show the Universe as never before​

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James Webb telescope: Amazing images show the Universe as never before

It's a year since the James Webb telescope launched, and we've marvelled at its pictures ever since.
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The Tarantula Nebula: Only 161,000 light years from Earth, this is a place where thousands of stars were born
By Jonathan Amos BBC Science Correspondent

It was the $10bn gift to the world. A machine that would show us our place in the Universe.
The James Webb Space Telescope was launched exactly a year ago, on Christmas Day. It had taken three decades to plan, design, and build.

Many wondered whether this successor to the famed Hubble Space Telescope could actually live up to expectations.
We had to wait a few months while its epic 6.5m primary mirror was unpacked and focused, and its other systems tested and calibrated.

But, yes, it was everything they said it would be. The American, European, and Canadian space agencies held a party in July to release the first color images. What you see on this page are some of the pictures subsequently published that you may have missed.
 
Launching JWST on Christmas Day was ballsy ... considering the trouble Hubble had just for being a bit close to Easter (9 days after Easter Sunday).
 
Compared with the initial angst over Hubble, JWST’s launch has brought both “relief and excitement,” said astronomer Richard Fienberg, a senior adviser to the American Astronomical Society.

“The images are even more spectacular than anyone dared imagine, and the rapidity with which astronomers have jumped on the data and made important discoveries is breathtaking.”

The James Webb Space Telescope​

took us closer to the Big Bang than ever before in 2022​

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The James Webb Space Telescope got us closer than ever to the Big Bang

From distant planets to the earliest galaxies, the James Webb Space Telescope has delivered for astronomers and the world. Here’s a big-picture look at the big pictures.
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Webb captured this merging galaxy pair, known to astronomers as II ZW 96, with a pair of its cutting-edge instruments: NIRCam – the Near-Infrared Camera – and MIRI, the Mid-Infrared Instrument. (Image credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, L. Armus, A. Evans)

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James Webb Space Telescope captures the chaotic cosmic collision
It is roughly 500 million light-years from Earth and located in the constellation Delphinus, according to a Nov. 30 NASA statement (opens in new... 20 hours ago
 
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Jan 05, 2023

James Webb Telescope Reveals Milky Way-like Galaxies in Young Universe​

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James Webb Telescope Reveals Milky Way-like Galaxies in Young Universe - UT News

AUSTIN, Texas — New images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveal for the first time galaxies with stellar bars — elongated features of
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“For this study, we are looking at a new regime where no one had used this kind of data or done this kind of quantitative analysis before,” said Yuchen “Kay” Guo, a graduate student who led the analysis, “so everything is new. It’s like going into a forest that nobody has ever gone into.”

Bars play an important role in galaxy evolution by funneling gas into the central regions, boosting star formation.

“Bars solve the supply chain problem in galaxies,” Jogee said. “Just like we need to bring raw material from the harbor to inland factories that make new products, a bar powerfully transports gas into the central region where the gas is rapidly converted into new stars at a rate typically 10 to 100 times faster than in the rest of the galaxy.”

Bars also help to grow supermassive black holes in the centers of galaxies by channeling the gas part of the way.

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The power of JWST to map galaxies at high resolution and at longer infrared wavelengths than Hubble allows it look through dust and unveil the underlying structure and mass of distant galaxies. This can be seen in these two images of the galaxy EGS23205, seen as it was about 11 billion years ago. In the HST image (left, taken in the near-infrared filter), the galaxy is little more than a disk-shaped smudge obscured by dust and impacted by the glare of young stars, but in the corresponding JWST mid-infrared image (taken this past summer), it’s a beautiful spiral galaxy with a clear stellar bar. Credit: NASA/CEERS/University of Texas at Austin

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Montage of JWST images showing six example barred galaxies, two of which represent the highest lookback times quantitatively identified and characterized to date. The labels in the top left of each figure show the lookback time of each galaxy, ranging from 8.4 to 11 billion years ago (Gyr), when the universe was a mere 40% to 20% of its present age. Credit: NASA/CEERS/University of Texas at Austin
 
It's nice to see that a radio telescope could confirm the red shift of GLz-13. Future radio telescopes will see even further into the past than Webb can.

Radio astronomy is under-rated because it does not produce such pretty pictures. That will change.
 

James Webb Space Telescope discovers its first exoplanet​

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Published 4:19 PM EST, Wed January 11, 2023
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James Webb Space Telescope discovers its first exoplanet | CNN

The James Webb Space Telescope has been used to confirm the existence of an exoplanet for the first time. The space observatory also spied a dusty debris disk around a nearby star and a star-forming region in a neighboring galaxy.
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THE JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE IS FINDING TOO MANY EARLY GALAXIES​

As the James Webb Space Telescope views swaths of sky spotted with distant galaxies, multiple teams have found that the earliest stellar metropolises are more mature and more numerous than expected.
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The results may end up changing what we know about how the first galaxies formed.

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YOUNG BUT MATURE​


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This image — a mosaic of 690 individual frames taken with Webb's Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) — covers a patch of sky near the handle of the Big Dipper. This is one of the first images obtained by the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science Survey (CEERS) collaboration and contains several examples of high-redshift galaxies with various morphologies, including a surprisingly high fraction of disks.
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Speaking as part of the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) collaboration, Jeyhan Kartaltepe (Rochester Institute of Technology) reported Webb’s views of galaxies when the universe was between 500 million years and 2 billion years old.
 

The James Webb Telescope detected the coldest ice in the known universe​

– and it contains the building blocks of life​

By JoAnna Wendel published about 16 hours ago
The James Webb Space Telescope's latest observations of icy molecules will help scientists understand how habitable planets form.
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The James Webb Telescope detected the coldest ice in the known universe – and it contains the building blocks of life

The James Webb Space Telescope's latest observations of icy molecules will help scientists understand how habitable planets form.
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A wispy blue cloud of molecular gas glows from the light of distant stars in this James Webb Space Telescope image
A wispy blue cloud of molecular gas glows from the light of distant stars in this James Webb Space Telescope image (Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and M. Zamani (ESA/Webb))

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have observed and measured the coldest ice in the deepest reaches of an interstellar molecular cloud to date. The frozen molecules measured minus 440 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 263 degrees Celsius), according to new research published on Jan. 23 in the journal Nature Astronomy(opens in new tab).

Molecular clouds made up of frozen molecules, gasses, and dust particles, serve as the birthplace of stars and planets — including habitable planets, like ours. In this latest research, a team of scientists used the JWST’s infrared camera to investigate a molecular cloud called Chameleon I, about 500 light-years from Earth.

Within the dark, cold cloud, the team identified frozen molecules like carbonyl sulfur, ammonia, methane, methanol, and more. These molecules will someday be a part of the hot core of a growing star, and possibly part of future exoplanets, according to the researchers. They also hold the building blocks of habitable worlds: carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, and sulfur, a molecular cocktail known as COHNS.
 

James Webb Telescope Observations Heat up with Coldest Ice Detection​

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“New results from the James Webspace Telescope Show it has the power to do exactly what it was designed to do. That is to peer through layers of cold gas and dust to see what is going on behind them. These layers would be opaque to visible light and hide the goings-on deep inside the coldest and dirtiest places in the universe.

In this study, astronomers use the James Webspace Telescope to study the composition of condensed material deep within the cold cloud of gas called Chameleon I. This is a cloud where stars are forming. They wanted to see how different ices or molecules of light elements condensed out of that cloud.

These light elements include carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen, and sulfur, and these elements are important for the formation of planets as well as the development of planetary atmospheres and eventually life on any of these planets that might form as infrared light from distant stars pass through that cloud.

It will be absorbed by these different ices, and we can measure what they’re made out of within that. These results will help us piece together the development of planet-forming material from within this cloud. And it’s especially important because this is before the time that most of the stars have formed and certainly before the time that any of the planets have formed.”
 
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James Webb Telescope spots galaxies from the dawn of time that are so massive they 'shouldn't exist...​

By Ben Turner
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James Webb Telescope spots galaxies from the dawn of time that are so massive they 'shouldn't exist'

The James Webb Space Telescope spotted six gigantic galaxies, each roughly the size of our own Milky Way, that formed at a bafflingly fast pace — taking shape just 500 million years after the Big Bang.
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The James Webb Space Telescope spotted six gigantic galaxies, each roughly the size of our own Milky Way, that formed at a bafflingly fast pace — taking shape just 500 million years after the Big Bang.
An image of the six massive galaxies, whose ages range between 500 to 800 million years after the Big Bang. The galaxy on the bottom left contains as many stars as the present-day Milky Way, but is 30 times more compact.

An image of the six massive galaxies, whose ages range between 500 to 800 million years after the Big Bang. The galaxy on the bottom left contains as many stars as the present-day Milky Way but is 30 times more compact. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, LABBE (Swinburne University of Technology): G. Brammer (Niels Bohr Institute’s Cosmic Dawn Center, University of Copenhagen))

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered a group of galaxies from the dawn of the universe that are so massive they shouldn't exist.

The six gargantuan galaxies, which contain almost as many stars as the Milky Way despite forming only 500 to 700 million years after the Big Bang, have been dubbed "universe breakers" by the team of astronomers that spotted them.

That's because, if they're real, the discovery calls our entire understanding of galaxy formation into question.
 
HangLow said:

James Webb Telescope spots galaxies from the dawn of time that are so massive they 'shouldn't exist...​

By Ben Turner
www.livescience.com

James Webb Telescope spots galaxies from the dawn of time that are so massive they 'shouldn't exist'

The James Webb Space Telescope spotted six gigantic galaxies, each roughly the size of our own Milky Way, that formed at a bafflingly fast pace — taking shape just 500 million years after the Big Bang.
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The James Webb Space Telescope spotted six gigantic galaxies, each roughly the size of our own Milky Way, that formed at a bafflingly fast pace — taking shape just 500 million years after the Big Bang.
An image of the six massive galaxies, whose ages range between 500 to 800 million years after the Big Bang. The galaxy on the bottom left contains as many stars as the present-day Milky Way, but is 30 times more compact.

An image of the six massive galaxies, whose ages range between 500 to 800 million years after the Big Bang. The galaxy on the bottom left contains as many stars as the present-day Milky Way but is 30 times more compact. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, LABBE (Swinburne University of Technology): G. Brammer (Niels Bohr Institute’s Cosmic Dawn Center, University of Copenhagen))

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered a group of galaxies from the dawn of the universe that are so massive they shouldn't exist.

The six gargantuan galaxies, which contain almost as many stars as the Milky Way despite forming only 500 to 700 million years after the Big Bang, have been dubbed "universe breakers" by the team of astronomers that spotted them.

That's because, if they're real, the discovery calls our entire understanding of galaxy formation into question.
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What we know, or think we know,
is minuscule compared to what we don't understand...
 
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is so powerful​

it discovered sand storms on a planet 235 trillion miles away​


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An illustration of the exoplanet known as VHS 1256 b. NASA, ESA, CSA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI)

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has proven just how powerful it is with its latest discovery: sand storms swirling on a planet 40 light-years from Earth, or about 235 trillion miles away.

One of Webb's greatest powers is its ability to decipher what's going on in alien atmospheres. From its vantage point in space, Webb can peer at a distant world and analyze the entire infrared spectrum of starlight passing through the planet's atmosphere.

Different spectra of light correspond to different elements, so Webb can show astronomers exactly which gases and vapors are in another world's atmosphere.
 
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In this case, clouds on a planet known as VHS 1256b are comprised of very small sand-like particles known as silicates, NASA said in a news release on Wednesday.

"It's kind of like if you took sand grains, but much finer. We're talking silicate grains the size of smoke particles," Beth Biller, a professor at the University of Edinburgh and the Royal Observatory Edinburgh, UK, told BBC News.

"That's what the clouds on VHS 1256b would be like, but a lot hotter. This planet is a hot, young object," Biller said, adding that the clouds' temperature would be similar to that of a candle flame.

At the highest levels of its atmosphere, the silicate clouds are a scorching 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit.

Webb also detected evidence of water, methane, carbon monoxide, and carbon dioxide, which is "the largest number of molecules ever identified all at once on a planet outside our solar system," according to NASA.

The spectrum Webb found on the planet VHS 1256 b, showing signatures of silicate clouds, water, methane, and carbon monoxide. NASA, ESA, CSA, J. Olmsted (STScI); Science: Brittany Miles (University of Arizona), Sasha Hinkley (University of Exeter), Beth Biller (University of Edinburgh), Andrew Skemer (University of California, Santa Cruz)
The spectrum Webb found on the planet VHS 1256 b, shows signatures of silicate clouds, water, methane, and carbon monoxide. NASA, ESA, CSA, J. Olmsted (STScI); Science: Brittany Miles (University of Arizona), Sasha Hinkley (University of Exeter), Beth Biller (University of Edinburgh), Andrew Skemer (University of California, Santa Cruz)​
 
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HangLow said:
What we know, or think we know,
is minuscule compared to what we don't understand...
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Its an understatement, human intelligence and senses are finite, limited.

With a few exceptions like Voyager 1 which entered interstellar space in 2012.

However, Voyager is still within our suns outer reach all these years later traveling at about 40,000 mph.

Point is this, humanity will never leave our solar system, so lets enjoy the telescopes and learn what we can.
 
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