Starts with Explosion Podcast # 82: JWST and Infrared Astronomy – Big Think Skip to content Started with Explosion – June 12, 2022
The James Webb Space Telescope is about to begin scientific operations. This is what astronomers are excited about.
Although Spitzer (launched in 2003) was earlier than WISE (launched in 2009), it had a larger mirror and a narrower field of vision. Even the first image of JWST at comparable wavelengths shown next to them can resolve the same characteristics in the same region with unprecedented precision. This is a preview of the science we will receive.
(Credit: NASA and WISE / SSC / IRAC / STScI, compiled by Andras Gaspar)
Key conclusions
- Now that the James Webb Space Telescope has been successfully launched, deployed, calibrated and put into operation, it is time to begin scientific operations.
- In the first year, some spectacular discoveries will be made, and scientists are drooling over the data: both about what we know is coming and about what surprise may await us.
- Here, in the latest edition of the Starts With A Bang podcast, we can talk to two research professors working on the JWST tools team: Dr. Stacy Alberts and Dr. Christina Williams. I couldn’t be more excited!
It has been almost six months since the launch of JWST and we are on the verge of receiving our first scientific data and images from about 1.5 million kilometers away. There are all sorts of things we need to learn, from discovering the most distant galaxies to exploring details in pale, small objects to searching for black holes in dusty galaxies and much more. But what is perhaps most exciting are the things we will find that we do not expect, simply because we have never looked at it in this particular way.
I am so excited to welcome two guests to the show: Research Professors Dr. Stacey Alberts and Dr. Christina Williams join me this month and we have an extensive talk on infrared astronomy and everything we are willing to learn from exploring the universe in infrared. , like never before. If you’re already excited about JWST and what we’ll learn from it, wait until you hear this episode!
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