9/28/2023 0 Comments First images webb space telescopeWe don’t know when or how the first stars formed. “The first billion years of cosmic history has barely been explored. “Webb’s primary mission will be to witness the birth of the first stars and galaxies in the early Universe,” says Melbourne’s Karl Glazebrook, from Swinburne University and ASTRO 3D. And the breathtaking views of the Universe are guaranteed to ignite the excitement and imagination of the public and inspire the next generation of astronomers,” she says. “The “unknown unknowns” are the most exciting prospect for the next decade. “Webb will allow us to view the birth of stars within the hearts of the densest, dust-enshrouded cores of molecular clouds,” says Kathryn Grasha from ANU and ASTRO 3D. We will be able to observe even more distant galaxies than with the Hubble - in fact, we expect to observe the very first galaxies that lit up the Universe! This completely revolutionized our view of the Universe: there are many more galaxies than we imagined” That tiny dark patch of sky reveals over ten thousand distant galaxies. “It was taken by pointing Hubble to a dark patch of sky) and just collecting photons for about 10 days. “Hubble took my favourite astronomical image of all time: the Hubble Ultra Deep Field,” says Elisabete da Cunha at UWA and ASTRO 3D in Perth. “This entire huge, complicated machine flew out and everything seems to have unfolded and deployed like clockwork.” The first stars and galaxies Everything about the Webb is so over-the-top audacious – from the titanic articulated mirror down to its orbit out in the cold voids of interplanetary space.” “This is a day I have been looking forward to for a big part of my career. Much of the Webb data is flowing back to Earth through Tidbinbilla, and some comes from an instrument designed by Peter Tuthill at the University of Sydney. Many of them are available to talk on Tuesday about what they hope to see with Webb and about their reaction to the first pictures. Nearly 40 researchers across Australia are eagerly awaiting data from web for their projects. On Tuesday morning Joe Biden will release ‘the first picture’ then NASA will release a suite of images early Wednesday morning from the James Webb Space Telescope, the successor to Hubble. Courtesy of NASA and the Space Telescope Science Institute. Image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723, known as Webb’s First Deep Field, taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. 2023 ASTRO 3D Annual Retreat – Tangalooma.Escape the Cosmic Microwave Background Maze Activity.SPIRIT in Schools Remote Telescope Program. Scientists Taking Astronomy to Regional Schools (STARS).ASTRO 3D Equity and Diversity Resources.About Equity, Diversity & Inclusion at ASTRO 3D.
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