Astrophysics Professor Explains James Webb Space Telescope Results: What do they mean? What's next? (#239)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

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🗓️ 13 July 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Watch this on Youtube! Today NASA released the first images and data from the James Webb Space Telescope. Here's my reaction to this treasure trove of light, including: Carina Nebula. The Carina Nebula is one of the largest and brightest nebulae in the sky, located approximately 7,600 light-years away in the southern constellation Carina. Nebulae are stellar nurseries where stars form. The Carina Nebula is home to many massive stars, several times larger than the Sun. WASP-96 b (spectrum). WASP-96 b is a giant planet outside our solar system, composed mainly of gas. The planet, located nearly 1,150 light-years from Earth, orbits its star every 3.4 days. It has about half the mass of Jupiter, and its discovery was announced in 2014. Southern Ring Nebula. The Southern Ring, or “Eight-Burst” nebula, is a planetary nebula – an expanding cloud of gas, surrounding a dying star. It is nearly half a light-year in diameter and is located approximately 2,000 light years away from Earth. Stephan’s Quintet: About 290 million light-years away, Stephan’s Quintet is located in the constellation Pegasus. It is notable for being the first compact galaxy group ever discovered in 1877. Four of the five galaxies within the quintet are locked in a cosmic dance of repeated close encounters. Don't miss my exclusive LIVE Q & A with JWST Project Scientist, and Nobel Prize winner, John Mather! Don't miss John Mather’s past appearance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwqTNa9e_LE Please join my mailing list to get the latest news in the Universe and win cool prizes like meteorites, books and more! briankeating.com/list 📝 Subscribe to The INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast for exclusive audio interviews https://briankeating.com/podcast.php Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everybody just a quick in-between-between-a-between-a-between-a-soe featuring yours truly waxing
0:12.0	rhapsodically about the mysteries of the universe. your
0:13.0	truly waxing rhapsodically about the mysteries of the universe
0:15.0	unveiled today by the James Webb Space Telescope.
0:18.0	Now you can't see the images on this podcast app,
0:21.0	but you can if you go to my YouTube channel Dr Brian Keating and there
0:24.7	you'll find the visual delights that will await you.
0:27.5	So I hope you'll do that.
0:28.8	Subscribe to the channel while you're there and leave a comment for Dr. John Mather. Past guests on the Into the
0:35.0	Impossible podcast, the lead project scientist for the James Web Space Telescope,
0:39.4	he's coming back for a second appearance on the podcast for just a brief Q&A this Thursday morning
0:45.3	on my YouTube channel.
0:46.1	So make sure you subscribe and leave a comment
0:49.0	or any question for Dr. Mather. And for now, I invite you to sit back relax and enjoy this ride into the
0:56.8	impossible with yours truly and the James Webb Space Telescope first results.
1:02.0	Let's go.
1:07.0	Today's announcement brings unprecedented clarity and visibility into the universe with targets ranging from
1:14.8	nearby stars, relatively nearby exoplanets, and some of the most distant galaxies
1:20.6	and clusters of galaxies known to exist. After careful planning for these images,
1:26.0	scientists working on the James Webb Space Telescope didn't quite know what to expect.
1:32.0	Why do some of the galaxies in this image,
1:35.0	which is a very small subset of the Hubble Deep Field,
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