While the images released on July 12 and aimed at showing the public what to expect over the coming months and year there’s actually another, arguably more important image release on Thursday, July 14.
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We know a spectra of an exoplanet is part of the “first light” batch because NASA has said that July 12 will see a “big reveal of Webb’s first full color images and spectroscopic data.” That’s now confirmed to be a spectra of WASP-96b. Webb can indulge in spectroscopy-the splitting of light into its constituent wavelengths-which can tell astronomers what molecules make up an exoplanet’s atmosphere. That’s when the gravitational pull from a closer, but aligned galaxy distorts and bends the light from a distant galaxy, causing it to appear misshapen-and magnified. It will likely be a gravitationally lensed galaxy. Given that the universe is 13.8 billion years old and so far astronomers have been able to look back to around 330 million years we’re going to see something pretty old. farther than humanity has ever looked before,” said NASA administrator Bill Nelson during a media briefing last week at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. “One of those images on July 12 will be the deepest image of our universe that has ever been taken. “We’ll see a couple of examples from the lifecycle of stars, starting from the birth of stars, where Webb can reveal new young stars emerging from a cloud of gas and dust, to the death of stars, like a dying star, seeding the galaxy with new elements and new dust that may one day become part of new planetary systems.” “We'll also see an example of how galaxies interact and grow and how these cataclysmic collisions between galaxies drive the process of star formation process that happens in the universe to this day,” said Pontoppidan. “Each of them will reveal a different aspects of the infrared Universe in unprecedented detail and sensitivity.” “We will have a package that will consist of a number of full color images,” said Klaus Pontoppidan, Webb project scientist, Space Telescope Science Institute. SMACS 0723: an extremely distant and intrinsically faint cluster of ancient galaxies imaged using gravitational lensing. Stephan’s Quintet: About 290 million light-years away, Stephan’s Quintet is a group of galaxies located in the constellation Pegasus. Southern Ring Nebula: The Southern Ring planetary nebula – an expanding cloud of gas surrounding a dying star - is 2,000 light-years away from Earth. It has about half the mass of Jupiter, and its discovery was announced in 2014. The planet, located nearly 1,150 light-years from Earth, orbits its star every 3.4 days. WASP-96b (spectrum): a giant planet outside our solar system, composed mainly of gas. Yesterday NASA confirmed these five objects will feature in Webb’s first images:Ĭarina Nebula: one of the largest and brightest nebulae in the sky, located approximately 7,600 light-years away in the southern constellation Carina. No-that was its alignment images in late April 2022, which showed how sharp Webb’s optics were, but didn’t contain much in the way of exciting targets. NASA/STScI Didn’t we already see Webb’s first images? This image of the star, which is called 2MASS J17554042+6551277, uses a red filter to optimize visual contrast. At this stage of Webb’s mirror alignment, known as “fine phasing,” each of the primary mirror segments have been adjusted to produce one unified image of the same star using only the NIRCam instrument. evaluation, Webb's optics and NIRCam are so sensitive that the galaxies and stars seen in the background show up.
While the purpose of this image was to focus on the bright star at the center for alignment.
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