Hi All,
If you’re wondering why every astronomer in the world is so excited, the team from Scientific American gives a great intro here:
link: First light from Hubble’s brand new baby brother
Nigel
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New Space Telescope
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Astronomer Katie Mach zooms into that first image (t=4:43) …
Link: original NASA image (1.8MB).
Nigel
Hi All,
If you’re wondering why every astronomer in the world is so excited, the team from Scientific American gives a great intro here:
link: First light from Hubble’s brand new baby brother
Nigel
This is wonderful! I also have been looking at all the spiral galaxies being released in the news. Just truly amazing to see in our lifetime…one a billion light years away.
https://petapixel.com/2023/02/14/webb-telescope-photographs-a-milky-way-like-spiral-galaxy/
Wonderful indeed! And to help deepen the wonder, another space telescope (Euclid) arrived at L2 in early August this year, joining JWST and Gaia. (See relative orbits here).
Whereas JWST takes high res images of particular targets, and Gaia is mapping the nearest few billion STARS (1% of the Milky Way), the Euclid mission involves surveying a few billion GALAXIES across 1/3 of the sky.
Meanwhile back on Earth, two monster telescopes are taking shape:
Giant Magellan Telescope (status, August 2022)
Extremely Large Telescope (status, July 2023)
Fun times for astronomers and cosmologists!
NigelA friend sent this youtube to me. Just thought I’d share it. Source credits are provided.
Utterly amazing!!!!! I have dreamed of this also since I was a kid! One day we’ll see so much more!
Beauuuuuutiful! Like an avalanche and wind chimes
Wow, I have a lot of catching up to do!
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Of all the interesting things JWST had viewed since its inception, the “comet” known as 3I/Atlas has got to be the most interesting. This object is highly controversial to say the least. Not only has JWST been used to study it, but most resources of native science have also been used as well. Whatever this object is: it has researchers perplexed. It can’t be a natural object. It must be artificial.
3I/ATLAS begins when a mysterious interstellar visitor enters the solar system in 2025, showing inexplicable course changes and strange signals. As scientists, prophets, soldiers, and ordinary people react—amid looming solar storms—the object makes a maneuver that seems to shield Earth, leaving humanity to ponder the question it posed.
So many different videos on Youtube about 3I/Atlas. Take your pick.
from wiki: 3I/ATLAS is recognized as an interstellar object because of its extremely hyperbolic path and very high speed relative to the Solar System. 3I/ATLAS did not pass close enough to any of the Solar System’s planets to have gained its speed, so it could not have originated from the Solar System. Tracing the path of 3I/ATLAS in the sky shows that the comet originated from interstellar space in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius, near the Milky Way‘s Galactic Center.
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James Webb finally detected something NASA didn’t expect on 3I/Atlas.
Researchers sent a signal to 3I/Atlas and it responded.
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