The natural anxiety and curiosity inherent in anyone observing the Universe today will be over in a week. Next Tuesday (12), NASA will begin releasing the first full images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which is now our best witness. exoplanets and black holes.
Event to start 12 July at 11:30 am Brasília time, can be watched directly on the NASA TV website or scheduled on YouTube. JWST will be added to a special page for those who prefer to enjoy color images and spectral data, but the agency warns it will place photos one by one, sparingly.
Why are James Webb’s images different?
The expectation of displaying images from the James Webb Space Telescope is justified: unlike other existing telescopes, including Hubble – JWST operates in the infrared spectrum. This means that it will show regions of the universe that we cannot see with the naked eye.
As stars and galaxies move away from us, the wavelengths of light they emit get longer like a super-long rubber band. until we reach the infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum.. In other words, because the universe has not stopped expanding, primordial stars and whatever they illuminate can only be observed through longer wavelength photons.
This means that by “looking” at the sky, James Webb could offer a kind of infrared fortune-telling with unprecedented detail of stars, galaxies, quasars, black holes, and even possible exoplanets ready for habitation by beings like ourselves. JWST “not to see the beginning of the universe, To see a period in the history of the universe that we have not yet seen“, told CNET John Mather, senior project scientist.
Source: Tec Mundo
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