James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

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Pillars of Creation Star in New Visualization from NASA's Hubble and Webb Telescopes

Release date: Wednesday, June 26, 2024 10:00:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time


NASA has released a new 3D visualization of these towering celestial structures using data from NASA's Hubble and James Webb space telescopes. This is the most comprehensive and detailed multiwavelength movie yet of these star-birthing clouds.

"By flying past and amongst the pillars, viewers experience their three-dimensional structure and see how they look different in the Hubble visible-light view versus the Webb infrared-light view," explained principal visualization scientist Frank Summers of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, who led the movie development team for NASA's Universe of Learning. "The contrast helps them understand why we have more than one space telescope to observe different aspects of the same object."

Video link:

 

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2024/news-2024-020.html


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So stars come from shaking hands?  Good to know!😂

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Here is a nice site to get info from the telescope

 

 https://webbtelescope.org/news

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NASA's Webb Captures Celestial Fireworks Around Forming Star

July 02, 2024 10:00AMR    Release ID: 2024-125

The cosmos seems to come alive with a crackling explosion of pyrotechnics in this new image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Taken with Webb’s MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument), this fiery hourglass marks the scene of a very young object in the process of becoming a star. A central protostar grows in the neck of the hourglass, accumulating material from a thin protoplanetary disk, seen edge-on as a dark line.

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2024/news-2024-125.html



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NASA's Webb Captures Celestial Fireworks Around Forming Star

July 02, 2024 10:00AMR    Release ID: 2024-125

The cosmos seems to come alive with a crackling explosion of pyrotechnics in this new image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Taken with Webb’s MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument), this fiery hourglass marks the scene of a very young object in the process of becoming a star. A central protostar grows in the neck of the hourglass, accumulating material from a thin protoplanetary disk, seen edge-on as a dark line.

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2024/news-2024-125.html



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Maybe a dumb question but how do they know what is happening?  Has there been video or a series of photos where they’ve documented this process over time?  

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My assumption is it is their best calculated guess.
And it will change when they have another new calculation to factor in.
I also suspect they may see different stages in different areas. Then they may and try and map their age relative to what they see.
I then expect they make a timeline of what they see as a 'natural' progression of events...
A of this from a few decades of science, looking back billions of years. Lol




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One smell of a news info from Webb Telescope

 

 https://abcnews.go.com/International/scientists-discover-jupiter-exoplanet-smells-rotten-eggs/story?id=111783965

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope shows off a pair of intertwined galaxies in infrared light, its latest release in an ongoing run of observations.

The James Webb Space Telescope operates around the clock, frequently astonishing researchers with its highly detailed — and incredibly precise — infrared images and data. These wavelengths of light, which lie beyond what our eyes can see, were largely out of reach at this level of detail until Webb began taking science observations July 12, 2022 on behalf of astronomers worldwide.

07/12/2024 : Vivid Portrait of Interacting Galaxies Marks Webb’s Second Anniversary ❱
Two for two! A duo of interacting galaxies commemorates the second science anniversary of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope
https://webb.nasa.gov/

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IMAGE DETAILS - The distorted spiral galaxy at center, the Penguin, and the compact elliptical at left, the Egg, are locked in an active embrace. This near- and mid-infrared image combines data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) and MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument), and marks the telescope’s second year of science. Webb’s view shows that their interaction is marked by a glow of scattered stars represented in blue. Known jointly as Arp 142, the galaxies made their first pass by one another between 25 and 75 million years ago, causing “fireworks,” or new star formation, in the Penguin. The galaxies are approximately the same mass, which is why one hasn’t consumed the other.

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Here some more news 

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/astronomers-found-ancient-light-source-140000763.html

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Astronomers identify more than one thousand new star cluster candidates

By analyzing the images obtained with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has managed to identify more than 1,000 new star cluster candidates in the Cigar Galaxy. The finding was reported in a research paper published August 8 on the pre-print server arXiv.

 

https://phys.org/news2024-08-astronomers-thousand-star-cluster-candidates.htmll

 

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New Horizons Measurements Shed New Light on the Darkness of the Universe

August 28, 2024 1:00PM Release ID: 2024-029

Summary
Deep space probe measures all the background light in the universe.

How dark is dark? This is not a Dr. Seuss riddle but a serious question astronomers have been probing for years. Their big opportunity came with the New Horizons spacecraft that is now far beyond the planets at more than 5.4 billion miles from Earth. It's far enough to be free of light-contamination from the glow of background dust in our solar system. This means the spacecraft was able to measure the darkness of the seemingly pitch-black deep space.


https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2024/news-2024-029.html

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NASA's Webb Reveals Distorted Galaxy Forming Cosmic Question Mark

September 04, 2024 10:00AM Release ID: 2024-128

Summary
Astronomers are astounded by a rare cosmic alignment showcasing highly magnified star-forming regions in distant galaxies.

What, why, how? The cosmos is full of questions. Still, astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope were surprised to find a distant, red galaxy distorted into the shape of a question mark. A specific, rarely-seen type of natural gravitational lens is causing the galaxy to appear multiple times...

"We know of only three or four occurrences of similar gravitational lens configurations in the observable universe, which makes this find exciting, as it demonstrates the power of Webb and suggests maybe now we will find more of these,” said astronomer Guillaume Desprez of Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, a member of the team presenting the Webb results.

While this region has been observed previously with NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, the dusty red galaxy that forms the intriguing question-mark shape only came into view with Webb. This is a result of the wavelengths of light that Hubble detects getting trapped in cosmic dust, while longer wavelengths of infrared light are able to pass through and be detected by Webb’s instruments...

Read more:
https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2024/news-2024-128.html

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Picture Description:
Amid a field of galaxies, five repeat images of a galaxy pair are labeled with letters of the alphabet. A, B, and C trace the shape of the top of a question mark, curving from left to right and then down. To the right of this shape is the letter D, but the galaxy pair is largely washed out by a bright white, oval foreground galaxy. The E label and galaxy pair are at a greater distance to the lower right.

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From McDonald Observatory, Austin, Texas:

Early Galaxies Weren't Too Big for Their Britches After All

 

 

"something might be wrong with the theory"????  Hmmm.

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Are these red dots are early galaxies??? I wonder what else they discovered, yet it has not been confirmed? The plot thickens.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/scientists-puzzled-hundreds-little-red-201013448.html

 

https://www.popsci.com/science/searching-for-the-secrets-behind-the-little-red-dots/

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The 2024 Photo of the year has been chosen.
I think all the submissions were awe-inspiring.
To view the short list (and categoryfinalists), use the link below

https://www.universetoday.com/168457/and-the-winner-is-astronomy-photographers-of-the-year-2024-announced/


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Ahhh... the poor little piece of asteroid was left behind. He is staring in the sky and wondering how he will get home again. That is so sad...

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3 minutes ago, Tortuga said:

Ahhh... the poor little piece of asteroid was left behind. He is staring in the sky and wondering how he will get home again. That is so sad...

Perhaps he could 'Phone Home'?

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NASA's Webb Peers into the Extreme Outer Galaxy

 

September 12, 2024 10:00AM )Release ID: 2024-131
Goddard SpacFlight Center

Astronomers have directed NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to examine the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy. Scientists call this region the Extreme Outer Galaxy due to its location more than 58,000 light-years away from the Galactic Center. (For comparison, Earth is approximately 26,000 light-years from the center.)...

“We know from studying other nearby star-forming regions that as stars form during their early life phase, they start emitting jets of material at their poles,” said Ressler, second author of the study and principal investigator of the observing program. “What was fascinating and astounding to me from the Webb data is that there are multiple jets shooting out in all different directions from this cluster of stars. It’s a little bit like a firecracker, where you see things shooting this way and that.”

https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasas-webb-peers-into-the-extreme-outer-galaxy/?utm_source=TWITTER&utm_medium=NASAWebb&utm_campaign=NASASocial&linkId=587101908

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/2024/131/01J5NT2S600WQP56P800N53WB5?news=true

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NASA's Webb Peers into the Extreme Outer Galaxy

 

September 12, 2024 10:00AM )Release ID: 2024-131
Goddard SpacFlight Center

Astronomers have directed NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to examine the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy. Scientists call this region the Extreme Outer Galaxy due to its location more than 58,000 light-years away from the Galactic Center. (For comparison, Earth is approximately 26,000 light-years from the center.)...

“We know from studying other nearby star-forming regions that as stars form during their early life phase, they start emitting jets of material at their poles,” said Ressler, second author of the study and principal investigator of the observing program. “What was fascinating and astounding to me from the Webb data is that there are multiple jets shooting out in all different directions from this cluster of stars. It’s a little bit like a firecracker, where you see things shooting this way and that.”

https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasas-webb-peers-into-the-extreme-outer-galaxy/?utm_source=TWITTER&utm_medium=NASAWebb&utm_campaign=NASASocial&linkId=587101908

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/2024/131/01J5NT2S600WQP56P800N53WB5?news=true

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 About an hour ago a brother ask me will we inhabit on other planets. I said for now the earth is at a safe spot and it will always be that way.

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NASA's Hubble Finds More Black Holes than Expected in the Early Universe
News Release
Sept 17, 2024 10:00AM Release ID: 2024-032

A Survey of Hubble’s Deepest Look Back into Time Uncovers New Clues

There seems to be countless black holes in the universe – space-time rabbit holes that forever swallow anything passing nearby. The most massive black holes, weighing millions or billions of times as much as our Sun, lurk in the centers of galaxies. When these sleeping dragons gobble up anything passing nearby they can blaze forth as bright lighthouses called active galactic nuclei. Other black holes do not pull in surrounding material constantly, but in fits and bursts, making their brightness flicker.

https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2024/032/01J6YYHYP6XZ9NQJTJVHFZ7TT3?news=true

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NASA's Webb Provides Another Look Into Galactic Collisions

 

Sept 18, 2024 10 AM Release ID: 2024-132

 

New infrared image highlights star formation triggered by merger-in-progress

 

Arp 107, a pair of interacting galaxies, shines brightly in high-resolution infrared light. A collision, which occurred hundreds of millions ago, created a tenuous bridge of gas and dust that connects the two galaxies, and started a new wave of star formation that NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captures clearly.

 

Image

A pair of interacting galaxies. The larger of the two galaxies is slightly right of center, and composed of a hazy, bright, white center and a ring of gaseous filaments, which are different shades of red and orange. Toward the bottom left and bottom right of the ring are filaments of gas spiraling inward toward the core. At the top left of the ring is a noticeable gap, bordered by two large, orange pockets of dust and gas. The smaller galaxy to its left is made of hazy white gas and dust, which becomes more diffuse farther away from its center. To this galaxy’s bottom left, there is a smaller, more diffuse gas cloud that wafts outward toward the edges. Many red, orange, and white galaxies are spread throughout, with some hazier in composition and others having more defined spiral patterns.

 

See link below for nice video tour: 

 

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2024/news-2024-132?news=true

https://youtu.be/O0FiqaeaxIs?si=mGNO8WJ-UFdCoqUF

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{I am sure this has been reported on here previously. This is the 'Caltech' account...}

Gargantuan Black Hole Jets Are Biggest Seen Yet
September 18, 2024
The jumbo jets blast hot plasma well beyond their own host galaxy

Astronomers have spotted the biggest pair of black hole jets ever seen, spanning 23 million light-years in total length. That's equivalent to lining up 140 Milky Way galaxies back to back.

"This pair is not just the size of a solar system, or a Milky Way; we are talking about 140 Milky Way diameters in total," says Martijn Oei, a Caltech postdoctoral scholar and lead author of a new Nature paper reporting the findings. "The Milky Way would be a little dot in these two giant eruptions."
[There is a nice YouTube video link in the article as well.]

https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/gargantuan-black-hole-jets-are-biggest-seen-yet
 

 

 

Picture Description: [Dull]
This picture, taken by Europe's LOFAR (LOw Frequency ARray) radio telescope, shows the longest known pair of black hole jets. Nicknamed Porphyrion after a Greek giant by co-discoverer Aivin Gast of the University of Oxford, the jet system spans 23 million light-years, the equivalent of 140 Milky Way galaxies lined up back to back. The galaxy hosting the supermassive black hole, which is 7.5 billion light-years away, is a dot in the center of the image. The largest blob-like structure near the center is a separate smaller jet system. The relative size of our Milky Way galaxy is indicated in the lower, right corner.
Credit: LOFAR Collaboration / Martijn Oei (Caltech)

Picture Description: [Pretty]:
An artist's illustration of the longest black hole jet system ever observed. Nicknamed Porphyrion after a mythological Greek giant, these jets span roughly 7 megaparsecs, or 23 million light-years. That is equivalent to lining up 140 Milky Way galaxies back-to-back. Porphyrion dates back to a time when our universe was less than half its present age.

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NASA's Webb Finds Potential Missing Link to First Stars
September 25, 2024 10:00AM
Release ID: 2024-133

Summary
With its gas shining brighter than its stars, a strange galaxy found one billion years after the big bang may represent a previously-unknown phase of galactic evolution.

Amid a crowded field of galaxies captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, one otherwise inconspicuous galaxy stands out for emitting a light signature that astronomers have never seen before. Together, an observational astronomer and a theorist investigated potential causes. They concluded that the strange spectrum of galaxy GS-NDG-9422 is likely coming from its super-heated gas, not its stars. This intriguing conclusion opens up several future paths for investigation, including the connection between this odd galaxy and the universe’s first generation of stars – also predicted to be outshone by nebular gas.

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2024/news-2024-133

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Webb Researchers Discover Lensed Supernova, Confirm Hubble Tension

October 01, 2024 11:00AM (EDT)

Editor’s Note: This post highlights data from Webb science in progress, which has not yet been through the peer-review process.

“To achieve three images, the light traveled along three different paths. Since each path had a different length, and light traveled at the same speed, the supernova was imaged in this Webb observation at three different times during its explosion. In the trifold mirror analogy, a time-delay ensued in which the right-hand mirror depicted a person lifting a comb, the left-hand mirror showed hair being combed, and the middle mirror displayed the person putting down the comb.
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“It all started with one question by the team: ‘What are those three dots that weren’t there before? Could that be a supernova?’ The points of light, not visible in 2015 Hubble imaging of the same cluster, were obvious when the images of PLCK G165.7+67.0 arrived on Earth from Webb’s Guaranteed Time Observations of the Prime Extragalactic Areas for Reionization and Lensing Science (PEARLS) ‘Clusters’ program. The team notes the question was the first to pop to mind for good reason: ‘The field of G165 was selected for this program due to its high rate of star formation of more than 300 solar masses per year, an attribute that correlates with higher supernova rates.’

https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2024/10/01/webb-researchers-discover-lensed-supernova-confirm-hubble-tension/

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/01J3DQ7Z5Z4VPJ9G8EN2GRWBJH

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