The Power Of The James Webb Telescope in Space To Be Launched in 2021

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• NASA’s Webb Reaches Alignment Milestone, Optics Working Successfully:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=MiGx8xv6xjE

Following the completion of critical mirror alignment steps, the James Webb Space Telescope team has great confidence that the observatory’s optical performance will meet or exceed the science goals it was built to achieve. On March 11, the Webb team completed the stage of alignment known as “fine phasing” – and at this key stage in the commissioning of Webb’s Optical Telescope Element, every optical parameter that has been checked and tested is performing at, or above, expectations. The team found no critical issues and no measurable contamination or blockages to Webb’s optical path. The observatory is able to successfully gather light from distant objects and deliver it to its instruments without issue. Although there are months to go before Webb ultimately delivers its new view of the cosmos, achieving this milestone means the team is confident that Webb’s first-of-its-kind optical system is working as well as possible.

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• The James Webb Telescope Is Almost Ready To Go To Work

Miraculous things are now weeks away... The James Web Space Telescope was launched at Christmas and now sits in a LaGrange point nearly a million miles from earth.

All 18 mirrors are now roughly in alignment and NASA is starting to test the device. And look at the first picture that has come back. It’s pretty amazing.

The main image is of a star called 2MASS J17554042+6551277 and the image is unbelievably clear. But what’s not immediately apparent is what’s in the background: on its first image, the JWST took a shot of billion year old galaxies merging.

And this is just the first image. They’re still tweaking it. It’s not going to be fully functional until this summer.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=QS2dMTzV5W0

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• NASA’s Most Unexpected Discoveries In Space (2022):

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Weirdest Things NASA Has Found in Space. NASA is full of experts in the field of space and science, and throughout the years they have come across some truly peculiar things which make even the most seasoned pros take a second look at how they view the cosmos. From terrifying exoplanets, to finding gamma-ray space bubbles, lets take a deep dive into space and view the strangest things we have ever found.

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• 5,000 Exoplanets! Nasa Confirms Big Milestone For Planetary Science:

Our tally of strange, new worlds just reached 5,000.

Astronomers have added the 5,000th alien world to the NASA Exoplanet Archive, officials with the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California announced on Monday (March 21).

The milestone comes amid a surge of recent discoveries and the promise of more insights to come, as NASA's $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope readies for planet-gazing operations in deep space.

"The 5,000-plus planets found so far include small, rocky worlds like Earth, gas giants many times larger than Jupiter, and 'hot Jupiters' in scorchingly close orbits around their stars," JPL officials said in Monday's statement.

"There are 'super-Earths,' which are possible rocky worlds bigger than our own, and 'mini-Neptunes,' smaller versions of our system's Neptune," JPL officials added. "Add to the mix planets orbiting two stars at once and planets stubbornly orbiting the collapsed remnants of dead stars."

• Related: The 10 biggest exoplanet discoveries of 2021

The NASA Exoplanet Archive is housed at the California Institute for Technology (Caltech). To be added to the catalog, planets must be independently confirmed by two different methods, and the work must be published in a peer-reviewed journal.

The first exoplanets were found in the early 1990s. While telescopes on the ground and in space have done well to get the count to 5,000 since then, Jessie Christiansen, science lead of the NASA Exoplanet Archive, stated on Caltech's website that the worlds found to date are "mostly in this little bubble around our solar system, where they are easier to find."

"Of the 5,000 exoplanets known, 4,900 are located within a few thousand light-years of us," Christiansen added. "And think about the fact that we're 30,000 light-years from the center of the galaxy; if you extrapolate from the little bubble around us, that means there are many more planets in our galaxy we haven't found yet, as many as 100 to 200 billion. It's mind-blowing."

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The first confirmed planetary discovery came in 1992, when astronomers Alex Wolszczan and Dale Frail published a paper in the journal Nature

. They spotted two worlds orbiting a pulsar (a rapidly rotating, dense star corpse) by measuring subtle changes in the timing of the pulses as the light reached Earth.

Ground-based telescopes did the heavy lifting in those early years, and it took several more searches to finally uncover the first planet around a sun-like star in 1995. That world was not hospitable to life as we know it; it was a scorching-hot gas giant that whipped around its parent star in only four Earth days.

Astronomers found these worlds by spotting wobbles (back and forth gravitationally induced motions) of stars as planets tugged upon them. Larger worlds were easier to spot, as they induced bigger wobbles. To find more Earth-sized planets, astronomers said at the time, they would need to try something called the "transit" method. That would assess the light of a star and look for tiny fluctuations as a planet passed across the face.

Astronomer William Borucki helped realize that vision as the principal investigator of NASA's Kepler space telescope, which launched in 2009 and exceeded its main mission by several years until it finally ran out of fuel in 2018. Kepler has racked up more than 2,700 planet discoveries to date, many of them Earth-sized or smaller worlds, and still has a database generating fresh finds to this day.

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Many other instruments have joined the planet hunt since Kepler launched. On the ground, the HARPS spectrograph, which is part of the 11.8-foot (3.6-meter) telescope at the European Southern Observatory's La Silla Observatory in Chile, is an adept planet-hunter of its own.

By 2011 (eight years after first light), HARPS had discovered more than 150 exoplanets. While access has been restricted periodically in latter years due to the coronavirus pandemic, HARPS remains operational and continues to seek new worlds with high precision.

In space, numerous observatories also assist with the planet search, among them NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), the NASA-European Space Agency (ESA) Hubble Space Telescope, and ESA's Characterizing Exoplanet Satellite (CHEOPS). Several other huge telescopes under construction on the ground, including the Giant Magellan Telescope and the Extremely Large Telescope in Chile, are scheduled to come online later this decade, adding other powerful eyes to the ongoing search.

Webb will help enhance the tally of exoplanets by studying the atmospheres of several relatively nearby worlds in detail. While such work may focus largely on gas giants, scientists say Webb's observations will be useful for a future generation of observatories with even more high-powered optics ready to see planets closer in size to Earth.

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• Stunning Details in First Image from James Webb Space Telescope (JWST):

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=5ZSwmjFddwg

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• Hairy Black Holes?! Plus Jwst Alignment Image Explained | Night Sky News March 2022

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=9SyvpSe4F4k

• 00:00 - Introduction
• 00:40 - The March sky
• 01:33 - Venus, Mars & Saturn morning sky
• 01:49 - Toenail Moon and planets 27th/28th March
• 02:19 - Jupiter joins them mid April
• 02:34 - Meteors and the ISS
• 03:09 - JWST image and diffraction limited resolution
• 08:32 - JWST 8 pointed star shape explained
• 10:50 - What's next for JWST?
• 13:37 - ExoMars & Rosalind Franklin rover suspended
• 15:25 - Quantum hairy black holes?!
• 21:05 - Outro
• 21:34 - Wondrium educational streaming service
• 23:04 - Bloopers

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• Hubble Finds The Most Distant Star In The Universe and It's Super Far Away:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=nuWuTTHOAOo

• The Sunrise Arc Galaxy with Lensed Star Earendel (Annotated)

The star nicknamed Earendel (indicated here with an arrow) is positioned along a ripple in spacetime that gives it extreme magnification, allowing it to emerge into view from its host galaxy, which appears as a red smear across the sky. The whole scene is viewed through the distorted lens created by a massive galaxy cluster in the intervening space, which allows the galaxy's features to be seen, but also warps their appearance—an effect astronomers call gravitational lensing. The red dots on either side of Earendel are one star cluster that is mirrored on either side of the ripple, a result of the gravitational lensing distortion. The entire galaxy, called the Sunrise Arc, appears three times, and knots along its length are more mirrored star clusters. Earendel's unique position right along the line of most extreme magnification allows it to be detected, even though it is not a cluster.


With this observation, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has established an extraordinary new benchmark: detecting the light of a star that existed within the first billion years after the Universe’s birth in the Big Bang (at a redshift of 6.2) — the most distant individual star ever seen. This sets up a major target for the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope in its first year.

Credit:NASA, ESA, B. Welch (JHU), D. Coe (STScI), A. Pagan (STScI)

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How the James Webb Space Telescope's infrared detectors will open New Vistas in Astronomy

The telescope 'time machine' will deliver 13.5 billion years of cosmic history.

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• James Webb Telescope Update and The Spy Satellite Mirrors:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=HRPFHi8LM7Y

An exploration of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope and its history along with updates on both the James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope.

• James Webb Space Telescope New Star Target Set by Hubble Space Telescope in Space:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=jmX2UbUshEs

James Webb Space Telescope Next Star Target Set by Hubble Space Telescope for Earendel

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Mapping the Local Group - "Webb is built on a scale approaching the largest telescopes on the ground, and it will be cold enough to provide the full potential for the mid-infrared," said the scientists. "The sensitivity gains and the image clarity will both be nearly a factor of 100 better than ever before." Of course, the exploration of the unseen universe starts with building a better picture of the local universe — which means the Local Group, a collective of three primary galaxies: our Milky Way, Andromeda, and Triangulum, in addition to roughly 50 dwarf galaxies. Images of that alone will rapidly expand our grasp of the cosmos, but in the long run for the James Webb Space Telescope, it's merely the beginning.

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• NASA Confirms The Existence of Over 5000 Exoplanets, Here Are The Details:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=eejx8q9VgPI

• Which of the 5000+ ExoPlanets are the best candidates for The James Webb Telescope?

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• Nasa's Next-gen Space Telescopes Could Dwarf Webb. By Using Liquid Lenses?

They could even "eliminate the effect of gravity".

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=H_qPWZbxFl8

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• James Webb Space Telescope Position - View From Earth:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=X3BmARU8x4I

While the purpose of this image was to focus on the bright star at the center for alignment evaluation, Webb's optics and NIRCam are so sensitive that the galaxies and stars seen in the background show up. 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. This image of the star, which is called 2MASS J17554042+6551277, uses a red filter to optimize visual contrast. Credits: NASA/STScI Coarse

• Phasing Step 4 Nominal Event Time: Starts - Launch + ~3 Months Status: Ongoing

Although Image Stacking puts all the light in one place on the detector, the segments are still acting as 18 small telescopes rather than one big one. The segments need to be lined up with each other with an accuracy smaller than the wavelength of the light. Conducted three times during the commissioning process, Coarse Phasing measures and corrects the vertical displacement (piston difference) of the mirror segments. Using a technology known as Dispersed Fringe Sensing, we use NIRCam to capture light spectra from 20 separate pairings of mirror segments. The spectrum will resemble a barber pole pattern with a slope (or angle) determined by the piston difference of the two segments in the pairing.

• Phasing Step 5 Nominal Event Time: Starts - Launch + ~3 Months Status: Future

Fine Phasing is also conducted three times, directly after each round of Coarse Phasing, and then routinely throughout Webb’s lifespan. These operations measure and correct the remaining alignment errors using the same defocusing method applied during Segment Alignment. However, instead of using the secondary mirror, we use special optical elements inside the science instrument which introduce varying amounts of defocus for each image (-8, -4, +4, and +8 waves of defocus). Telescope Alignment Over All Instrument Fields of View

• Phasing Step 6 Nominal Event Time: Starts - Launch + ~3 Months Status: Ongoing

After Fine Phasing (step 5), the telescope will be well aligned at one place in the NIRCam field of view. Now we need to extend the alignment to the rest of the instruments. In this phase of the commissioning process, we make measurements at multiple locations, or field points, across each of the science instruments, as shown below. More variation in intensity indicates larger errors at that field point. An algorithm calculates the final corrections needed to achieve a well-aligned telescope across all science instruments. Iterate Alignment for Final Correction

• Phasing Step 7 Nominal Event Time: Starts - Launch + ~4 Months Status: Future

After applying the Field of View correction, the key thing left to address is the removal of any small, residual positioning errors in the primary mirror segments. We measure and make corrections using the Fine Phasing process (step 5). We will do a final check of the image quality across each of the science instruments; once this is verified, the wavefront sensing and controls process will be complete. As we go through the seven steps, we may find that we need to iterate earlier steps as well. The process is flexible and modular to allow for iteration. After roughly three months of aligning the telescope, we will be ready to proceed to commissioning the instruments.

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• James Webb Space Telescope Captures Moving Black Hole Accidentally and It Is WOW!!!

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=uvSeOgCZj-M

James Webb Space Telescope Captures Moving Black Hole Accidentally and It Is WOW!!! What if we told you that apart from the star, and the multiple galaxies captured by the Webb telescope, there was something else in that image that everyone missed? The JWST accidentally captured a moving black hole. YouCurious? Discover More. Know More.

• James Webb Space Telescope Capture Moving Black Hole with Long Tail Light in Space:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=W8y_2AHOrcw

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• James Webb Space Telescope 14 NEW Images!

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=mDdMDegx44Y

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• Astronomers Finally Discovered First Ever White Hole:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q2KcjqVdsLY

A white hole is basically the opposite of black holes, in that it spits out light and matter, rather than trapping it. The Milky Way galaxy contains some 100 billion stars, The nearest black hole is some 1,600 light years from Earth. In the region of the Universe visible from Earth. When massive stars die, they do not fade gently into the good night. They collapse in on themselves and explode. It's called a supernova, and it is the largest explosion that takes place in space.

• Candidate for The James Webb Telescope?

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• Astronomers Finally Discovered First Ever White Hole:

Fun idea. Sounds like a good old Einstein prank. And the vid said nothing about discovering one, just saying. ~8O

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• James Webb Space Telescope 14 NEW Images!

Am glad they’re getting pictures. Impressive project.

You just know that scientists will eat up the data, and make brain f*rts for ages. Puts the fun in funding.

Forget the restaurant at the end of the universe, I want to see a big ‘fat lady’ singing. Whatever ‘she’ turns out to be. ~8D

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• Astronomers Finally Discovered First Ever White Hole:

Fun idea. Sounds like a good old Einstein prank. And the vid said nothing about discovering one, just saying. ~8O

The British sci-fi sitcom Red Dwarf had a lot of fun with the concept of a white hole in one for their episodes... was hilarious, had me in stitches but so did many of their other episodes.

Conceptualizing something that is the opposite to a black hole fries my noodle big time. The existence of a white hole as a opposite to a black hole where space-time is compressed to an infinitesimally dense and small singularity would imply that 'inside' the white hole is the opposite of dense & small yet emits light matter seemingly from nothing (opposite of a singularity - aka everywhere)? How then could this thing have any boundary?... Is it the universe itself a white hole and the cosmic microwave background radiation the boundary of all space time that recycles itself through black holes within?

In order to not violate the no energy or information is ever lost or newly created, the idea of a universe emerging from a big bang state of nothing before could be like the other side of the coin to where all light,matter,information goes when absorbed by a black hole. Where space-time is also funneled into a point like existence, to nothingness, then the emanations from a white hole is all that energy and matter returned with the adjoining information attached to it by space time wiped clean and part of a endless cycle. Hence a universe that was never born or never dies and just always was always is.

I don't know anything near enough about quantum physics let alone Newtonian physics to determine what is and isn't possible when it comes to intricate workings of the universe but it sure is fascinating to contemplate for the 5 minutes before sizzling brain sounds take over.

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• James Webb Space Telescope's next-gen spectrograph can observe 100 galaxies in one go

• NASA James Webb Space Telescope Capture Beautiful Galaxies Pattern in Space Billion Light Year Away:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=W-HehyZqC2w

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• James Webb Space Telescope FINALLY Seeing Black Holes!

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=lJHBJJTMjWw

• JWST Vs HUBBLE IMAGES 5 🔴 Final Cooling - MIRI | James Webb Space Telescope:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=YLCgirUASxU