James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

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Summary

October 30, 2023 10:00AM (EDT)Release ID: 2023-137

 

Exquisite, never-before-seen details help unravel the supernova remnant’s puzzling history.

 

Although the Crab Nebula is one of the most well-studied supernova remnants, questions about its progenitor and the nature of the explosion that created it still remain unanswered. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is on the case as it sleuths for any clues that remain within the supernova remnant. Webb’s infrared sensitivity and spatial resolution are offering astronomers a more comprehensive understanding of the still-expanding scene.

 

Read more:

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2023/news-2023-137.html

 

Check out the video!

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/videos/2023/137/01HDS5S3XBRCK1KNRH67WW2HPW?news=true

 

 

Edited October 31, 2023 by ➕👇 ꓤꓱꓷꓠꓵ🎵Tone

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Picture of the Month

Release date: 31 Oct 2023

{And another creative acronym}

 

The spiral galaxy M83, which is also known as NGC 5236, was observed by Webb as part of a series of observations collectively titled Feedback in Emerging extrAgalactic Star clusTers, or FEAST. Another target of the FEAST observations, M51, was the subject of a previous Webb Picture of the Month. As with all six galaxies that comprise the FEAST sample, M83 and M51 were observed with both NIRCam and MIRI, two of the four instruments that are mounted on Webb...

 

This image was compiled using data collected through just two of MIRI’s ten filters, near the short end of the instrument’s wavelength range...

 

[Image Description: A close-up view of a barred spiral galaxy. Two spiral arms reach horizontally away from the core in the centre, merging into a broad network of gas and dust which fills the image. This material glows brightest orange along the path of the arms, and is darker red across the rest of the galaxy. Through many gaps in the dust, countless tiny stars can be seen, most densely around the core.]

 

Credit:

ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Adamo (Stockholm University) and the FEAST JWST team

 

 

https://esawebb.org/images/potm2310c/

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10 hours ago, ➕👇 ꓤꓱꓷꓠꓵ🎵Tone said:

Picture of the Month

Release date: 31 Oct 2023

{And another creative acronym}

 

The spiral galaxy M83, which is also known as NGC 5236, was observed by Webb as part of a series of observations collectively titled Feedback in Emerging extrAgalactic Star clusTers, or FEAST. Another target of the FEAST observations, M51, was the subject of a previous Webb Picture of the Month. As with all six galaxies that comprise the FEAST sample, M83 and M51 were observed with both NIRCam and MIRI, two of the four instruments that are mounted on Webb...

 

This image was compiled using data collected through just two of MIRI’s ten filters, near the short end of the instrument’s wavelength range...

 

[Image Description: A close-up view of a barred spiral galaxy. Two spiral arms reach horizontally away from the core in the centre, merging into a broad network of gas and dust which fills the image. This material glows brightest orange along the path of the arms, and is darker red across the rest of the galaxy. Through many gaps in the dust, countless tiny stars can be seen, most densely around the core.]

 

Credit:

ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Adamo (Stockholm University) and the FEAST JWST team

 

 

https://esawebb.org/images/potm2310c/

One day, I want to wake up in my spaceship, look through the canopy and watch this, full size, (yeah, with some transparent automatic filtering to get the colors, alright )

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[Not specifically JWST, but the space junk up there is a problem for Radio telescopes down here.)

 

Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites are “leaking” signals

 

Even in a “radio quiet zone” in outback Western Australia, the satellites' emissions were far brighter than natural sources.

 

By Steven Tingay

October 2023

 

When I was a child in the 1970s, seeing a satellite pass overhead in the night sky was a rare event. Now it is commonplace: sit outside for a few minutes after dark, and you can’t miss them...

 

A problem for our understanding of the universe

Our team at Curtin University used radio telescopes in Western Australia to examine the radio signals coming from satellites...

 

We found expected radio transmissions at designated and licensed radio frequencies, used for communication with Earth.

 

And specifically, the signals are an issue at the location where we tested them: the site in WA where construction has already begun for part of the biggest radio observatory ever conceived, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). This project involves 16 countries, has been in progress for 30 years, and will cost billions of dollars over the next decade.

 

Huge effort and expense has been invested in locating the SKA and other astronomy facilities a long way away from humans. But satellites present a new threat in space, which can’t be dodged.

 

{3 videos showing problem in link below}

 

https://theconversation.com/starlink-satellites-are-leaking-signals-that-interfere-with-our-most-sensitive-radio-telescopes-215250

 

[Dustparticle]

56 minutes ago, ➕👇 ꓤꓱꓷꓠꓵ🎵Tone said:

[Not specifically JWST, but the space junk up there is a problem for Radio telescopes down here.)

 

Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites are “leaking” signals

 

Even in a “radio quiet zone” in outback Western Australia, the satellites' emissions were far brighter than natural sources.

 

By Steven Tingay

October 2023

 

When I was a child in the 1970s, seeing a satellite pass overhead in the night sky was a rare event. Now it is commonplace: sit outside for a few minutes after dark, and you can’t miss them...

 

A problem for our understanding of the universe

Our team at Curtin University used radio telescopes in Western Australia to examine the radio signals coming from satellites...

 

We found expected radio transmissions at designated and licensed radio frequencies, used for communication with Earth.

 

And specifically, the signals are an issue at the location where we tested them: the site in WA where construction has already begun for part of the biggest radio observatory ever conceived, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). This project involves 16 countries, has been in progress for 30 years, and will cost billions of dollars over the next decade.

 

Huge effort and expense has been invested in locating the SKA and other astronomy facilities a long way away from humans. But satellites present a new threat in space, which can’t be dodged.

 

{3 videos showing problem in link below}

 

https://theconversation.com/starlink-satellites-are-leaking-signals-that-interfere-with-our-most-sensitive-radio-telescopes-215250

 

It is not Houston we have a problem. It is Earth we have a broblem. 

[Dustparticle]

More info on the oldest Black Hole: https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/oldest-black-hole-discovered-dating-back-to-470-million-years-after-the-big-bang/article67507630.ece

 

 More on early galaxies too: https://news.yahoo.com/james-webb-space-telescope-watches-180001437.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall

 

Redo the books.

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NASA's Webb: Hubble Combine to Create Most Colorful View of Universe

Release date: Thursday, November 9, 2023 10:00:00 AM Eastern Standard Time

 

The result is a vivid landscape of galaxies along with more than a dozen newfound, time-varying objects.

 

When two flagship observatories unite, they reveal a wealth of new details only possible through their combined power. Webb and Hubble have joined forces to study the galaxy cluster MACS0416, located about 4.3 billion light-years from Earth. Their combined data yields a prismatic panorama of blues and reds – colors that give clues to the distances of the galaxies. While the image itself is stunning, researchers are already using these observations to fuel new scientific discoveries, including the identification of gravitationally magnified supernovae and otherwise-invisible, ordinary stars.

 

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope have united to study an expansive galaxy cluster known as MACS0416. The resulting panchromatic image combines visible and infrared light to assemble one of the most comprehensive views of the universe ever taken. Located about 4.3 billion light-years from Earth, MACS0416 is a pair of colliding galaxy clusters that will eventually combine to form an even bigger cluster.

 

The image reveals a wealth of details that are only possible by combining the power of both space telescopes...

 

Read more:

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2023/news-2023-146.html

 

Picture Caption

This panchromatic view of galaxy cluster MACS0416 was created by combining infrared observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope with visible-light data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. To make the image, in general the shortest wavelengths of light were color-coded blue, the longest wavelengths red, and intermediate wavelengths green. The resulting wavelength coverage, from 0.4 to 5 microns, reveals a vivid landscape of galaxies that could be described as one of the most colorful views of the universe ever created.

 

MACS0416 is a galaxy cluster located about 4.3 billion light-years from Earth, meaning that light we see now left the cluster shortly after the formation of our solar system. This cluster magnifies the light from more distant background galaxies through gravitational lensing. As a result, the research team has been able to identify magnified supernovae and even very highly magnified individual stars.

 

Those colors give clues to galaxy distances: The bluest galaxies are relatively nearby and often show intense star formation, as best detected by Hubble, while the redder galaxies tend to be more distant, or else contain copious amount of dust, as detected by Webb. The image reveals a wealth of details that are only possible to capture by combining the power of both space telescopes.

 

In this image, blue represents data at wavelengths of 0.435 and 0.606 microns (Hubble filters F435W and F606W); cyan is 0.814, 0.9, and 1.05 microns (Hubble filters F814W, and F105W and Webb filter F090W); green is 1.15, 1.25, 1.4, 1.5, and 1.6 microns (Hubble filters F125W, F140W, and F160W, and Webb filters F115W and F150W); yellow is 2.00 and 2.77 microns (Webb filters F200W, and F277W); orange is 3.56 microns (Webb filter F356W); and red represents data at 4.1 and 4.44 microns (Webb filters F410M and F444W).

 

Credits

Image

NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Jose M. Diego (IFCA), Jordan C. J. D'Silva (UWA), Anton M. Koekemoer (STScI), Jake Summers (ASU), Rogier Windhorst (ASU), Haojing Yan (University of Missouri)

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More information is coming out. https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-distant-galaxies

 

Pretty soon they will find galaxies that was formed before the Big Bang.

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4 minutes ago, Dustparticle said:

Pretty soon they will find galaxies that was formed before the Big Bang.

I am not sure about validity, but there are some reports that they already found some. 

 

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1 hour ago, Dustparticle said:

 

Pretty soon they will find galaxies that was formed before the Big Bang.

 

Moses, Job and Isaiah were light years ahead in their understanding of the origins of the Universe!

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[Continued discoveries and another acronym]

 

James Webb Space Telescope finds 2 of the most distant galaxies ever seen

By Keith Cooper published about 11 hours ago

 

These two galaxies, magnified by a gravitational lens, have properties that support the basic picture of galaxy formation as described in the Big Bang theory.

 

The second and fourth most distant galaxies ever seen have been spotted by the eagle eye of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), supporting the basic picture of galaxy formation as described by the Big Bang theory.

 

The discovery was made possible thanks to a huge helping hand from a massive gravitational lens in the form of the galaxy cluster known as Abell 2744, nicknamed Pandora's Cluster, which is located about 3.5 billion light-years away from us. The immense gravity of the cluster warps the very fabric of space-time sufficiently to magnify the light of more faraway galaxies. 

 

Using the James Webb Space Telescope to search for early galaxies magnified by this cosmic lens, Bingjie Wang of the Penn State Eberly College of Science and member of the JWST UNCOVER (Ultradeep NIRSpec and NIRCam Observations before the Epoch of Reionization) team discovered two of the highest redshift galaxies ever seen...

 

The discovery was reported on Monday (Nov. 13) in Astrophysical Journal Letters.

 

Read more:

 

https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-distant-galaxies

[Dustparticle]

6 minutes ago, ➕👇 ꓤꓱꓷꓠꓵ🎵Tone said:

 

[Continued discoveries and another acronym]

 

James Webb Space Telescope finds 2 of the most distant galaxies ever seen

By Keith Cooper published about 11 hours ago

 

These two galaxies, magnified by a gravitational lens, have properties that support the basic picture of galaxy formation as described in the Big Bang theory.

 

The second and fourth most distant galaxies ever seen have been spotted by the eagle eye of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), supporting the basic picture of galaxy formation as described by the Big Bang theory.

 

The discovery was made possible thanks to a huge helping hand from a massive gravitational lens in the form of the galaxy cluster known as Abell 2744, nicknamed Pandora's Cluster, which is located about 3.5 billion light-years away from us. The immense gravity of the cluster warps the very fabric of space-time sufficiently to magnify the light of more faraway galaxies. 

 

Using the James Webb Space Telescope to search for early galaxies magnified by this cosmic lens, Bingjie Wang of the Penn State Eberly College of Science and member of the JWST UNCOVER (Ultradeep NIRSpec and NIRCam Observations before the Epoch of Reionization) team discovered two of the highest redshift galaxies ever seen...

 

The discovery was reported on Monday (Nov. 13) in Astrophysical Journal Letters.

 

Read more:

 

https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-distant-galaxies

I just post this 3 posts above. But, 2 news articles are better than one.

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4 hours ago, Dustparticle said:

I just post this 3 posts above. But, 2 news articles are better than one.

Correct. I just added the pics and some text. And I wanted to reference the new acronym.  Lol. The original pic was actually posted in Feb, but Ms Wang only just wrote the article.

Keep up the good work!

Edited November 15, 2023 by ➕👇 ꓤꓱꓷꓠꓵ🎵Tone

[Dustparticle]

2 hours ago, ➕👇 ꓤꓱꓷꓠꓵ🎵Tone said:

Correct. I just added the pics and some text. And I wanted to reference the new acronym.  Lol. The original pic was actually posted in Feb, but Ms Wang only just wrote the article.

Keep up the good work!

You too my brother.

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NASA's Webb Reveals New Features in Heart of Milky Way

 

Release date: Monday, November 20, 2023 10:00:00 AM Eastern Standard Time

 

The play of darkness and light in our galaxy’s crowded core is put on display like never before.

 

A bright field of gas sweeps around the edge of a dark, dense cloud where young stars are bursting out to take their place in the universe. They join an estimated 500,000 other stars in the scene, of various ages, sizes, and colors. It’s the hub of our Milky Way galaxy, a city center at rush hour, making our solar system’s calm corner a frontier outpost by comparison. Discover the new features – and mysteries – NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed with its unprecedented infrared-light view of the chaotic region, and what it means for astronomy.

 

Read more:

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2023/news-2023-148

 

 

 

 

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Lobster Nebula

 

A fine example of a stellar nursery is the Lobster Nebula otherwise known by the less catchy title NGC6357 (from the New General Catalogue). The nebula is located in the constellation Scorpius at a distance of 6,000 light years – remember a light year is a measure of distance defined by the distance light can travel in one year. It’s easier to say 6,000 light years than 57,000,000,000,000,000km!

 

A team of astronomers have turned JWST onto NGC6357 to probe deep inside the nebula. The area under scrutiny hosts numerous massive OB stars, among them the most massive stars in the Galaxy. The team targeted 15 disks in three areas hoping it would help understand the impact of environment on planet formation. They studied a disk known as ‘XUE 1’ and explored its inner disk (within 10 astronomical units – 1 AU is the average distance between the Sun and Moon). In their paper they report on the abundance of water, carbon monoxide, hydrogen cyanide and acetylene to a distance of within 1 astronomical unit – this would be impossible without JWST.

 

 

https://www.universetoday.com/164470/jwst-reveals-protoplanetary-disks-in-a-nearby-star-cluster/#:~:text=A team of astronomers have,of environment on planet formation.

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Webb Telescope: A prominent protostar in Perseus

NASA 

NOV 28, 2023

 

This new Picture of the Month from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope reveals intricate details of the Herbig Haro object 797 (HH 797). Herbig-Haro objects are luminous regions surrounding newborn stars (known as protostars), and are formed when stellar winds or jets of gas spewing from these newborn stars form shockwaves colliding with nearby gas and dust at high speeds. HH 797, which dominates the lower half of this image, is located close to the young open star cluster IC 348, which is located near the eastern edge of the Perseus dark cloud complex. The bright infrared objects in the upper portion of the image are thought to host two further protostars.

 

This image was captured with Webb’s Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam). 

 

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/webb/webb-telescope-a-prominent-protostar-in-perseus/

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Picture Credits: The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope reveals intricate details of the Herbig Haro object 797 (HH 797). Herbig-Haro objects are luminous regions surrounding newborn stars (known as protostars), and are formed when stellar winds or jets of gas spewing from these newborn stars form shockwaves colliding with nearby gas and dust at high speeds. HH 797, which dominates the lower half of this image, is located close to the young open star cluster IC 348, which is located near the eastern edge of the Perseus dark cloud complex. The bright infrared objects in the upper portion of the image are thought to host two further protostars. This image was captured with Webb’s Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam).

ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, T. Ray (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies)

 

Hi Res pic link:

https://cdn.esawebb.org/archives/images/publicationjpg/potm2311a.jpg

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Webb Study Reveals Rocky Planets Can Form in Extreme Environments

November 30, 2023 10:00AM (EST)

Release ID: 2023-152

 

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2023/news-2023-152.html

 

Picture Caption:

This is an artist’s impression of a young star surrounded by a protoplanetary disk in which planets are forming. 

 

An international team of astronomers have used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to provide the first observation of water and other molecules in the highly irradiated inner, terrestrial-planet forming regions of a disk in one of the most extreme environments in our galaxy. These results suggest that the conditions for rocky-planet formation, typically found in the disks of low-mass star-forming regions, can also occur in massive-star-forming regions and possibly a broader range of environments than previously thought. 

 

 

[Sweet Tooth]

On 11/28/2023 at 5:21 AM, ➕👇 ꓤꓱꓷꓠꓵ🎵Tone said:

remember a light year is a measure of distance defined by the distance light can travel in one year.

Speaking of time, try this video, a must watch regarding space-time. 
 

“Time Is One-Directional. Though time is universal, no man living is able to say what it is. It is as unfathomable as space. No one can explain where the stream of time began or where it is flowing. These things belong to the limitless knowledge of Jehovah, who is described as being God “from time indefinite to time indefinite.”—Ps. 90:2..”

 

- All Scripture Is Inspired of God and Beneficial book. 

 

 

 

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NASA's Webb Stuns With New High-Definition Look at Exploded Star

December 10, 2023 8:00PM

Release ID: 2023-149

 

Summary

 

Mysterious features hide in near-infrared light

Objects in space reveal different aspects of their composition and behavior at different wavelengths of light. Supernova remnant Cassiopeia A (Cas A) is one of the most well-studied objects in the Milky Way across the wavelength spectrum. However, there are still secrets hidden within the star’s tattered remains.

 

The latest are being unlocked by one of the newest tools in the researchers’ toolbox, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope—and Webb’s recent look in the near-infrared has blown researchers away

 

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2023/news-2023-149.html

 

 

 

Edited December 11, 2023 by ➕👇 ꓤꓱꓷꓠꓵ🎵Tone

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Beautiful!

 

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Don't forget to scroll down to the informative video links at the end.

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NASA's Webb Identifies Tiniest Free-Floating Brown Dwarf

 

December 13, 2023 10:00AM (EST)

Release ID: 2023-151

 

Discovery helps answer question:

How small can you go when forming stars?

Brown dwarfs are sometimes called failed stars, since they form like stars through gravitational collapse, but never gain enough mass to ignite nuclear fusion. The smallest brown dwarfs can overlap in mass with giant planets. In a quest to find the smallest brown dwarf, astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have found the new record-holder: an object weighing just three to four times the mass of Jupiter...

 

“One basic question you’ll find in every astronomy textbook is, what are the smallest stars? That’s what we’re trying to answer,” explained lead author Kevin Luhman of The Pennsylvania State University...

 

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2023/news-2023-151.html

 

[Watching and Waiting]

2 hours ago, ➕👇 ꓤꓱꓷꓠꓵ🎵Tone said:

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2023/news-2023-151.html

 

Per the article about this Brown Dwarf:

. . . .In a quest to find the smallest brown dwarf, astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have found the new record-holder: an object weighing just three to four times the mass of Jupiter.

 

Astounding, for a 'dwarf.'   Just shows Jehovah does everything on no less than a 'grand scale,' even for dwarfs.

 

(Job 9:7-9) “ ⁷ He commands the sun not to shine And seals off the light of the stars;  ⁸ He spreads out the heavens by himself, And he treads upon the high waves of the sea.  ⁹ He made the Ash, the Keʹsil, and the Kiʹmah constellations, And the constellations of the southern sky;”