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2/2: #JAMESWEBB: Extremely bright two billion year-old galaxies explained. Anshu Gupta, International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), Curtin University, Bentley WA, Australia

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John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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0:00.0

I'm John Bacher Hotel Mars, David Livingston, Dr Space, my co-pilot and we've traveled 12

0:10.2

billion years into the early universe to understand a little bit of what James

0:15.8

Webb's Space Telescope is doing for astronomers and we have one with us right now Dr. Anschu Gupta at Curtin University, a research fellow.

0:25.7

Dr. Gupta, you've apparently done research, which is what you do, and know that David and

0:31.2

I love the game of you've got an unlimited budget so you've had a

0:34.4

chance to think about this we're not surprising you good for you what is it that you

0:38.6

want to do next with to build on your discovery of these early bright galaxies.

0:44.8

All right.

0:47.2

I'll answer it in two parts.

0:49.4

First part, what if I had an unlimited budget? What will I build?

0:54.2

And the technology for this exists right now.

0:57.1

So there is this Muse Spectrograph,

0:59.0

which can look at galaxies in three-dimensional, really large area of space.

1:05.0

So what I'll do is I'll put that new spectrograph on James Web Telescope

1:10.0

and that will give us a really detailed view of what the early universe looked like in 3D.

1:17.0

James Webb can do that but the field that it looks at is really, really tiny.

1:22.0

So we can only look at the individual galaxies in

1:24.6

3D with James Webb not the environment those galaxies look at are living in but

1:30.8

with such an instrument new spectrograph on James

1:33.6

Swift Space Telescope, that will give us the galaxies in the early

1:38.0

universe and their environment, a 3D view of that, and that will be

1:41.8

spectacular.

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