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>> Welcome back. 5 years ago,
I had the incredible
opportunity to see the James
Webb telescope being built at NASA. Goddard in Maryland.
NASA. Goddard in Maryland.
Now the Web is settled into
orbit and fully functional and
its first observations were
released yesterday. Now here to talk about these amazing full
talk about these amazing full
color images as doctor Heidi
Hammel enter disciplinary
scientists for the Web dot.
What for the James Webb Space
Telescope who joins us now live from Stockholm, Sweden, thank
from Stockholm, Sweden, thank
you for joining us this
morning.
>> It’s a pleasure to be here
talking with you. So first of
all, how truly incredible are these 5 images?
these 5 images?
>> That we’re seeing?
>> Well, let me just share with
you that I’m out of conference
right to talk about the Hubble
and the James Webb Space Telescope Science. And so we
Telescope Science. And so we
got to see some of those images
for the first time along with
all the rest of the world and
some win some of these images
and some of the data showed up
on the screen. There was
spontaneous applause. There
was cheers. There was gasping
and clapping and yelling it’s a big deal. These are great,
big deal. These are great,
great data. It is. I watching
this with my colleague.
>> Here at the Reyes, who does
traffic in? We at war watching
all these images there coming through. We just could not
through. We just could not
believe what we’re seeing now
that the Web is an infrared
telescope. What is that? How is it different from the
How is it different from the
Hubble Space Telescope?
>> Yeah.
space Telescope is an optical
telescope, but also a UV
telescope. Astronomers want to use every wavelength of light
use every wavelength of light
that more rubble. And the but
the Web is an infrared
telescope longer wavelengths of
light red and redder than red
and even redder than red. And we need all these different
And we need all these different
colors of light to help us
understand the universe.
Different phenomena show up at
different colors of light.
And so the Web is going to open a whole new window into the
a whole new window into the
universe for us. The infrared
window.
>> And that Doctor Hamill,
we’re going to have to take a
rain as we head toward
tomorrow.
OK, I’m back now with doctor
Heidi Hammel. And our
interdisciplinary scientist
from the James Webb Space Telescope, OK? So let’s resume
Telescope, OK? So let’s resume
this. So just how far away from
Earth is the James Webb
telescope right now.
>> So the James Webb Space Telescope is about a million
Telescope is about a million
miles away from Earth. It’s out
of place in space. We call the
El 2 point lead branch, too.
If you imagine going from the
sun to the earth and then keep
going in a straight line for a
million miles 4 times for the
moon. That’s where James Webb
Space Telescope is.
>> As this is just so
incredible. Now, Hubble
establishments act evidence of
black holes. What can the Web possibly give us evidence off?
possibly give us evidence off?
>> The Webb telescope was
specifically designed. So look
for the very first galaxies that ever formed in
that ever formed in
our cosmos based on those
images that we saw yesterday,
we’re going to be able to do
that. Those images are not yet the deepest fields that Web
the deepest fields that Web
will find. But they show us
that once we start doing our
deep exposures, we will be able to see those first galaxies.
to see those first galaxies.
And if we are very, very lucky,
we may be able to see the very
some of them for stars that
formed in those first galaxies. That’s pretty amazing to me.
That’s pretty amazing to me.
>> I I completely agree with
him really excited to see all
of this. So we have these 5
images right now. You’re
mentioning some of the other
things that the James Webb is
going to do. But what’s exactly next? What are we building on
next? What are we building on
from here on out? When is the
next image we’re going to see?
>> Well, I can tell you exactly
when the next image is, but we’re already starting to take
we’re already starting to take
science data and other kinds
of phenomenon in our solar
system, in our solar system.
And in our galaxy and in the Galactic neighborhood. So you
Galactic neighborhood. So you
can expect a sometime in the
coming months to see new
pictures of a star formation
regions where stars are being born in our galaxy. You might
born in our galaxy. You might
start to start to images of
things in locally like maybe the great red spot and shoot
the great red spot and shoot
My team is planning to look
at that we may see We may
exploding stars, stars that
are, you know, in that the end
stages of their life and Egypt, a huge shows of material like
a huge shows of material like
like the Ring Nebula. That was
the southern ring. One of the
images that was shown and it’s
it’s such a powerful telescope that astronomers from all
that astronomers from all
around the world in all the
different fields of astronomy,
all have plans for what they
want to do with with the jwst.
>> And so for you personally, what are you most looking
what are you most looking
forward to is a Jupiter or is
it something else?
>> Oh, you mean which of my children, too? I love the Baja,
children, too? I love the Baja,
I guess so. Yes, I’m making
you pick who you love. It.
Well, let me answer in 2 ways
like I’m a solar system.
Astronomers. I joined this program more than 20 years ago
program more than 20 years ago
just to give people an idea of
how long it takes to build a
Super Advanced Space Telescope.
I’ve been working on the
project for over 20 years.
>> With the idea that I wanted to use it to look at the
to use it to look at the
planets, Uranus and Neptune
with the best possible
telescope that humanity has
ever built. And so I’m looking forward to that and the first
forward to that and the first
images there will come later
this and for your in us and
then Neptune will be up next
year. So I still have to They
have to be in the right part
of the sky for the telescope to look. So for me that that
to look. So for me that that
that’s kind of what I’m all
excited about. But I will say
as an astronomer as an astrophysicist is someone who
astrophysicist is someone who
has studied the cosmos for my
entire career. The idea that
this telescope will see to the
very edge of the universe and see the first galaxies that
see the first galaxies that
ever formed. That’s a mind
boggling thing. And I I’m
excited for for that science as
So great. Where can viewers go to learn more about this
to learn more about this
incredible space telescope?
>> You know, your best bet is
always to track at NASA DOT
They will have links to the
latest and greatest news and you can navigate from there to
you can navigate from there to
other places to to find more
interesting data.
>> Thank you, doctor Heidi
Hammel, interdisciplinary
scientist for the James Webb, a Taste Space telescope.
a Taste Space telescope.
We really appreciate your time.