Posted on 07/08/2022 10:41:56 AM PDT by Red Badger
This illustration depicts NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope – the largest, most powerful, and most complex space science telescope ever built – fully unfolded in space.
This illustration depicts NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope – the largest, most powerful, and most complex space science telescope ever built – fully unfolded in space. The telescope’s first full-color images and spectroscopic data will demonstrate Webb at its full power, ready to begin its mission to unfold the infrared universe. Credits: NASA/Adriana Manrique Gutierrez
NASA, in partnership with ESA (European Space Agency) and CSA (Canadian Space Agency), will release the James Webb Space Telescope’s first full-color images and spectroscopic data during a live broadcast beginning at 10:30 a.m. EDT Tuesday, July 12, from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Released one by one, these first images from the world’s largest and most powerful space telescope will demonstrate Webb at its full power as it begins its mission to unfold the infrared universe.
Each image will simultaneously be made available on social media, as well as on the agency’s website at:
http://www.nasa.gov/webbfirstimages
Embargoed access to Webb’s first images will not be available prior to their public release.
The following is a list of activities for the release (all times Eastern):
Friday, July 8
NASA will share the list of cosmic targets for Webb’s first images and spectra on the agency’s website.
Tuesday, July 12 (Image Release Day)
9:45 a.m. – Live, opening remarks by agency and Webb leadership will air on NASA TV, the NASA app, and the agency’s website ahead of the first images release.
10:30 a.m. – Live coverage of the image release broadcast will air on NASA TV, the NASA app, and the agency’s website. The public also can watch live on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Twitch, and Daily Motion.
12 p.m. – Following the live broadcast, NASA and its partners will hold a joint media briefing at NASA Goddard. The briefing will livestream on NASA TV, the NASA app, and the agency’s website. Participants include:
Eric Smith, Webb program scientist and Astrophysics Division chief scientist, NASA Headquarters Knicole Colón, Webb deputy project scientist for exoplanet science, NASA Goddard René Doyon, principal investigator for the Canadian Near-Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph, University of Montreal Christopher Evans, Webb project scientist, ESA Klaus Pontoppidan, Webb project scientist, STScI Jane Rigby, Webb operations project scientist, NASA Goddard Amber Straughn, Webb deputy project scientist for communications, NASA Goddard In-person registration is closed; media may register to participate virtually by completing this form by 3 p.m. Monday, July 11.
3 p.m. – Live Interview Opportunities: From 3 to 7 p.m., Webb mission experts will be available to conduct live, remote interviews with broadcast media, in both English and Spanish. Details about scheduling these interviews are available online. Members of the media seeking interviews outside of the windows mentioned in this advisory should complete this media interview request form.
NASA’s media accreditation policy for on-site and virtual activities is available online. The agency will soon provide further details to those who register their interest, including COVID-19 safety protocols. Due to space limitations, NASA may be unable to accommodate all requests for on-site attendance. Media and members of the public may ask questions on social media using #UnfoldtheUniverse.
Wednesday, July 13
6 a.m. – Live Interview Opportunities: From 6 a.m. to 1 p.m., Webb mission experts will be available to conduct live, remote interviews with broadcast media, in both English and Spanish. Details about scheduling these interviews are available online. Members of the media seeking interviews outside of the windows mentioned in this advisory should complete this media interview request form.
1 p.m.: NASA en español social media event
NASA will broadcast a live social media event in Spanish on its NASA en español YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter accounts. Webb experts Begoña Vila and Néstor Espinoza will discuss the release of the first images and take questions from followers.
3 p.m.: NASA Science Live
Webb experts will answer questions about the first images and data in a NASA Science Live show. The broadcast, Webb’s First Full-Color Images Explained, will air live on the NASA Science Live website, as well as YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. Viewers of this episode can submit questions on social media using the hashtag #UnfoldtheUniverse or by leaving a comment in the chat section of the Facebook or YouTube stream.
NASA Social
The agency will host an in-person NASA Social Tuesday, July 12, and Wednesday, July 13. Participants will join as guests for the in-studio filming of the televised broadcast at NASA Goddard, tour NASA Goddard and STScI facilities, and interact with experts from the Webb mission.
Social media users can also join a virtual global social event on Facebook to get a behind-the-scenes look at the mission and celebrate Webb’s first images.
Webb Community Events
The public can also join in the release of the first full-color images by attending one of the official Webb Space Telescope Community Events taking place across the country this summer. The list of events celebrating Webb’s first images is available online and updated frequently.
Webb, an international partnership with ESA and CSA, launched Dec. 25 from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. After unfolding into its final form in space and successfully reaching its destination 1 million miles from Earth, the observatory now is completing the months-long process of preparing for science operations. Webb will explore every phase of cosmic history – from within the solar system to the most distant observable galaxies in the early universe, and everything in between.
Stay connected with the mission and share your experience with Webb’s first images on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram with #UnfoldTheUniverse. Follow and tag these accounts:
Twitter: @NASA, @NASAWebb Facebook: NASA, NASAWebb Instagram: NASA, @NASAWebb -end-
Alise Fisher / Natasha Pinol Headquarters, Washington 202-358-2546 / 202-358-0930 alise.m.fisher@nasa.gov / natasha.r.pinol@nasa.gov
Laura Betz Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-9030 laura.e.betz@nasa.gov
Last Updated: Jul 7, 2022 Editor: Sean Potter
It's infrared, but I think they can colorize subsequent images, but note the sharpness of it!
We are not alone!
Hahahahahahaha!
Ping!
To think out of billions and billions of galaxies we’re the only one with life?
Each of those fuzzy little ellipses is a GALAXY that we could not see before.............
Got my calendar cleared for Tuesday!😃
“To think out of billions and billions of galaxies we’re the only one with life?”
Some day we may discover there is life elsewhere in the Milky Way or we may not. But the Milky Way only represents a small fraction of the universe.
Our nearest real galaxy (the way I think of them) is Andromeda which is 2.5 million light years from us. We may never know if life exists or not in our nearest galaxy much less the other 2 trillion galaxies out there.
Thus I don’t believe we could ever state that Earth has the only life in the universe.
The reality is that it doesn’t really matter if there is or is not life on the other 2 trillion galaxies out there because they are so far away as to be essentially irrelevant to our existence.
God Is Great.
No Man will ever know what God knows.
What an incredible thing God has done for us.
This is the image used to fine tune the optical alignment
And almost all of the objects in that image are galaxies, each one like island universes, containing billions of planets and stars. It’s hard for me to wrap my head around seeing all those galaxies in one single image.
Personally I don’t buy that. I’d guess there are billions of planets with life, in one form or another.
Me neither. I think it’s the height of self importance to think humans on this planet are the only ones out there in the universe.
Me neither. I think it’s the height of self importance to think humans on this planet are the only ones out there in the universe.
And pretty much isolated. We all may be gone in relationship with other galaxies, like we’re already gone by the time the light of our galaxy reaches them.
“And pretty much isolated. “
I happen to believe the isolation was by design. It is as if the creator knew we would just kill each other if we lived too close together. “keep ‘em separated”
100% agree. It's the pinnacle of arrogance and ignorance usually being disseminated by the self righteous.
Which is why our solar system/Earth is at the outer most part of the Milky Way spiral. There’s nothing behind our system at all but the deep universe.
If the goal was to prevent people killing each other, why are their 8 billion people on this small planet?
God knew murder would exist. But I think He planned to separate lifeforms in the universe to keep them from killing each other off. That’s just how it looks to me.
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