Those kooky astrophysicists and their madcap hijinks!
A French scientist punked the internet Sunday with a tweet of what he said was a picture of a distant star taken by the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/james-webb-telescope">James Webb Space Telescope</a>, only to admit later it was really just a slice of chorizo.
&#8220;Picture of Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to the Sun, located 4.2 light years away from us,” Étienne Klein, director of France&#8217;s Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, told his nearly 100,000 Twitter followers. “It was taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. This level of detail&#8230; A new world is unveiled everyday.”
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Photo de Proxima du Centaure, l’étoile la plus proche du Soleil, située à 4,2 année-lumière de nous. Elle a été prise par le JWST. Ce niveau de détails… Un nouveau monde se dévoile jour après jour. <a href="https://t.co/88UBbHDQ7Z">pic.twitter.com/88UBbHDQ7Z</a>
&mdash; Etienne KLEIN (@EtienneKlein) <a href="https://twitter.com/EtienneKlein/status/1553765864553472003?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 31, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Thousands commented on the flaming red image against a black background before Klein came clean about the piece of spicy Spanish sausage that would go great with a piece of the Moon, were it made of green cheese.
&#8220;Well, when it&#8217;s cocktail hour, cognitive bias seems to find plenty to enjoy&#8230;” he wrote. “Beware of it. According to contemporary cosmology, no object related to Spanish charcuterie exists anywhere else other than on Earth.&#8221;
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Bon, quand sonne l’heure de l’apéritif, les biais cognitifs semblent s’en donner à cœur joie… Gare, donc, à eux. Selon la cosmologie contemporaine, nul objet relevant de la charcuterie espagnole n’existe ailleurs que sur Terre.
&mdash; Etienne KLEIN (@EtienneKlein) <a href="https://twitter.com/EtienneKlein/status/1553779203652435970?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 31, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Klein apologized Wednesday for the hoax, saying he only meant &#8220;to urge caution regarding images that seem to speak for themselves.&#8221;
The Webb telescope, the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/will-absolutely-blow-hubble-out-of-the-water-new-photos-from-largest-space-telescope-ever-shows-colors-never-seen-before">most powerful ever launched into space</a>, began scouring the universe on July 12. Scientists believe it will allow them to observe some of the first galaxies created by the Big Bang.
Last month, just days after the telescope began sending images back to Earth, it helped scientists <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/oldest-galaxy-ever-discovered-found-by-james-webb-space-telescope">discover a galaxy</a> so old it predates the previously oldest known galaxy by roughly 100 million years. The newly-discovered galaxy has been named GLASS-z13, and it came into existence just 300 million years after the Big Bang, which occurred nearly 14 billion years ago.
“JWST has potentially smashed records, spotting a galaxy which existed when the universe was a mere 300 million years old!” former NASA scientist James O’Donoghue enthused. “The light from GLASS-z13 took 13.4 billion years to hit us, but the distance between us is now 33 billion light years due to the expansion of the universe!”
Hank Berrien contributed to this report.

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Scientist’s Webb ‘Space Telescope’ Pic Turns Out To Be Delicious Hoax

Scientist Admits Pic From 'Space Telescope' Was Really A Slice Of Chorizo

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Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have <a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/2329601-jwst-has-found-the-oldest-galaxy-we-have-ever-seen-in-the-universe/?NSDAY_210722">discovered a galaxy</a> so old it predates the previous oldest known galaxy by roughly 100 million years.
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The galaxy, known as GLASS-z13, has broken the record for the oldest galaxy ever observed by nearly 100 million years! <a href="https://t.co/IljhTPlZSw">pic.twitter.com/IljhTPlZSw</a>
&mdash; New Scientist (@newscientist) <a href="https://twitter.com/newscientist/status/1549722042202718211?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The previous oldest known galaxy, GN-z11, was discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2016 and came into existence 400 million years after the Big Bang.
We&#8217;re potentially looking at the most distant starlight that anyone has ever seen,&#8221; Rohan Naidu of the Harvard Center for Astrophysics told <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220720-webb-telescope-may-have-already-found-most-distant-known-galaxy">AFP</a>.
The newly-discovered galaxy has been <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/space/james-webb-space-telescope-oldest-galaxy-universe-b2127399.html">named</a> GLASS-z13, and came into existence 300 million years after the Big Bang.
“JWST has potentially smashed records, spotting a galaxy which existed when the universe was a mere 300 million years old!” former NASA  scientist James O’Donoghue enthused. “The light from GLASS-z13 took 13.4 billion years to hit us, but the distance between us is now 33 billion light years due to the expansion of the universe!”
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🚨 JWST has potentially smashed records, spotting a galaxy which existed when the universe was a mere 300 million years old! The light from GLASS-z13 took 13.4 billion years to hit us, but the distance between us is now 33 billion light years due to the expansion of the universe! <a href="https://t.co/5AcOBwHuO1">pic.twitter.com/5AcOBwHuO1</a>
&mdash; Dr. James O&#39;Donoghue (@physicsJ) <a href="https://twitter.com/physicsJ/status/1549780839772217345?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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“Astronomy records are crumbing already, and more are shaky &#8230; Yes, I tend to only cheer once science results clear peer review. But, this looks very promising!” Thomas Zurbuchen, Associate Administrator of the NASA Science Mission Directorate added.
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Astronomy records are crumbing already, and more are shaky … <a href="https://twitter.com/NASAWebb?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NASAWebb</a> 🌌
Yes, I tend to only cheer once science results clear peer review. But, this looks very promising! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/UnfoldTheUniverse?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#UnfoldTheUniverse</a> <a href="https://t.co/i9fLnlPpYI">https://t.co/i9fLnlPpYI</a>
&mdash; Thomas Zurbuchen (@Dr_ThomasZ) <a href="https://twitter.com/Dr_ThomasZ/status/1549777203465883651?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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GLASS-z13 stretches roughly 1600 light years across compared to Earth’s Milky Way galaxy, which ranges 100,000 light-years in diameter.
The James Webb Space Telescope, the largest space telescope ever sent into space, has been in the works for 30 years at a cost of $10 billion and intends to reach back to the beginnings of the universe.
Roughly 20,000 people have played a part in the telescope’s development over the years, from engineers and astronomers to technicians and government officials.
The pictures to be displayed would show “colors no human eye has seen,” <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/10/science/nasa-webb-telescope-images.html?smtyp=cur&amp;smid=tw-nytimesscience">The New York Times</a> had reported.
The Webb Telescope will far outstrip the capacities of the famed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/something-weird-is-going-on-in-the-universe-nasa-says">Hubble telescope</a> in its quest into space and time.  In 2018, NASA introduced a double-blind system for proposals from scientists wanting to use the Hubble; the Webb Telescope will <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03538-8">also feature</a> such a process for accepting applicants to use it.
“We all know that Webb will absolutely blow Hubble out of the water by going deeper and finding the earliest galaxies,” asserted Garth Illingworth, an astrophysicist who has utilized Hubble.
The five cosmic objects <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/nasa-shares-list-of-cosmic-targets-for-webb-telescope-s-first-images">targeted</a> by the Webb Telescope include the Carina Nebula, roughly 7,600 light years away; the WASP-96 b (spectrum), an exoplanet about half the mass of Jupiter; the Southern Ring Nebula, roughly 2,000 light years away from Earth; Stephan’s Quintet in the constellation Pegasus, about 290 million light years distant, and SMACS 0723.

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Oldest Galaxy Ever Discovered Found By James Webb Space Telescope

Scientists believe that the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/james-webb-telescope">James Webb Telescope</a> and other next generation telescopes could allow them to detect unique signatures of alien life forms in the atmospheres of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nasa-finds-planets-may-contain-life-hank-berrien">extrasolar planets</a>.
Scientists have long speculated about the possibility of extraterrestrial life, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/aliens">aliens</a> have captured the public imagination to become a mainstay of popular culture and science fiction. Earth is, as of now, the only known home of life in the universe.
Many astronomers have suggested that life may have emerged on other bodies in our solar system, such as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mars">Mars</a> and <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2022/05/02/jupiters-moon-europa-may-have-shallow-water-and-an-earth-like-ocean-where-life-could-exist-say-scientists/?sh=1e7aa8cb4d42">Europa</a>, one of Jupiter’s four Galilean moons, due to the presence or possible presence of liquid water. However, verifying these claims is extremely difficult — with no readily apparent biosphere probes that would have to be sent across millions of miles to collect physical samples for further study.
Astronomers <a href="https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-exoplanet-atmospheres-explained">increasingly believe</a> that the first signs of alien life will be found beyond the Solar System, on exoplanets orbiting other stars. <a href="https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/who-really-discovered-the-first-exoplanet/">Since the 1990s</a>, scientists have discovered <a href="https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/">over 5,000</a> exoplanets, and theoretical models suggest that there are far, far more, with some estimates claiming that there could be at least <a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/11/06/1011784/half-milky-way-sun-like-stars-home-earth-like-planets-kepler-gaia-habitable-life/">300 million</a> habitable planets in our galaxy.
While sending probes to these planets will be impossible for the foreseeable future, observing light that has interacted with the planet could <a href="https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1304213111">reveal telltale signs</a> of complex life. Different substances absorb and reflect different wavelengths of light, which is why our eyes perceive them as being different colors. Chlorophyll in plants is green, for example, because it absorbs energy-intensive blue light and abundant red light emitted by our Sun, reflecting the less useful green light in the visible spectrum and maximizing the amount of energy available for photosynthesis.
The light reflected off planets is a minuscule fraction of the light emitted by their star, which makes extrasolar planets almost impossible to observe directly, however, when an exoplanet <a href="http://www.exoplanetes.umontreal.ca/transit-method/?lang=en">passes directly in front</a> of its host star, the resulting “eclipse” blocks out a small fraction of the star’s rays. By closely observing a star over a sufficient period of time, astronomers can determine the orbital period of the planet, as well as its radius. When paired with the <a href="https://www.planetary.org/articles/color-shifting-stars-the-radial-velocity-method">‘radial velocity’</a> method, which observes the minute gravitational pull a planet exerts on its host star, astronomers can estimate the mass, density, and surface gravity of a planet with a high degree of confidence, and by observing the spectrum of light being absorbed and reflected by a planet during transit, they can get an idea about the chemical composition of its surface and atmosphere.
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The James Webb Telescope, a successor to NASA’s famed Hubble Telescope that took three decades and $10 billion to make, was launched in December of 2021 and transmitted its first images in July of 2022. With a higher resolution and greater sensitivity than Hubble and other, older models, the Webb Telescope, which has already <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-nasa-releases-the-deepest-sharpest-infrared-photo-of-the-universe-ever-from-space-telescope">dazzled the world</a> with its remarkably detailed images, represents a major step forward in the study of our universe. <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/tiny-dust-could-yield-big-answers-under-webb-telescope-s-gaze">According to</a> Christiaan Boersma, an astronomer at NASA’s Ames Research Center, “We’ll be able to see details — better details — on smaller scales than ever before.”
The presence of certain gasses is not definitive proof that a given planet is habitable; the Webb telescope has already taken a reading of the gas giant <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/12/science/wasp-96b-exoplanet-webb-telescope.html">WASP-96b</a> and found large amounts of water vapor, but scientists have good reason to believe the planet is inhospitable. Webb is also not built for discovering exoplanets and is unable to detect free oxygen — one of the strongest possible signs of life.
Despite these limitations, Webb has already proven that it can provide detailed information on many of the key questions surrounding the potential habitability of planets, and if all the stars align, scientists might find a match. The satellite is in high demand by researchers, but is already scheduled to turn its gaze toward <a href="https://www.space.com/36349-trappist-1e-just-right-for-life.html">TRAPPIST-1e</a>, an Earth-like planet orbiting a star 39 light years away from our own. If all goes well, in the coming months scientists could discover extraterrestrial life less than 12 parsecs away.

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Advanced NASA Telescope Could Discover Alien Life

James Webb Telescope Could Discover Alien Life

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One of the largest comets ever discovered is making its nearest pass to the Earth in our lifetime.
The C/2017 K2 Panstarrs will reach its nearest distance to our planet, around 1.8 times greater than the distance between the Earth and the sun, on July 14.
The K2 comet was <a href="https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2017/news-2017-40.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discovered</a> in 2017 by the Hubble Space Telescope. When found, it was the most distant inbound comet ever spotted, traveling between the orbital distances of Uranus and Saturn. K2 was 1.5 billion miles from the Earth when it was first observed.
The comet&#8217;s nucleus is estimated at more than 11 miles, a size ten times larger than most comets. The comet&#8217;s atmosphere (or coma) is considered 81,000 miles in diameter.
NASA <a href="https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap220630.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">describes</a> the comet as being on &#8220;its maiden voyage to the inner Solar System from the dim and distant Oort cloud.&#8221; The Oort cloud is the most distant region of our solar system.
Those wishing to spot K2 will find it within the constellation of Ophiuchus. The comet will remain in this area until approximately the end of July, when it will move near the Scorpio constellation.
The comet should be visible with a basic telescope or even a pair of binoculars, according to astronomers studying K2. The precise time the comet will be nearest the Earth is at 11 p.m. ET on Wednesday.
According to <a href="https://www.accuweather.com/en/space-news/comet-c-2017-k2-panstarrs-july-2022/1214161?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=AccuAstronomy">AccuWeather</a>, the comet will appear as a &#8220;fuzzy green star.&#8221;
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Dust off your telescope and point it toward the southern sky this week to see Comet C/2017 K2 (PanSTARRS): <a href="https://t.co/2HqMVh3g7p">https://t.co/2HqMVh3g7p</a>
&mdash; AccuWeather Astronomy (@AccuAstronomy) <a href="https://twitter.com/AccuAstronomy/status/1547273438955454464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 13, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The Comet Observation Database (COBS) offers precise coordinates for comet seekers in need of detailed data to follow the comet&#8217;s passing.
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Photo-op: +8.4 magnitude comet C/2017 K2 PanSTARRS passes just 30&#39; from the +7.5 magnitude globular cluster Messier 10 tonight: <a href="https://t.co/1iKGQIXCzM">https://t.co/1iKGQIXCzM</a> H/T <a href="https://twitter.com/SSA_Mark?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SSA_Mark</a> <a href="https://t.co/qVNFhOEeek">pic.twitter.com/qVNFhOEeek</a>
&mdash; Dave Dickinson (@Astroguyz) <a href="https://twitter.com/Astroguyz/status/1547586317629804546?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 14, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Footage from the Sormano2 Observatory in Italy offers a glimpse of how the K2 will look based on its observations of the comet last week.
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Comet C/2017 K2 (PanSTARRS) last night. Sormano2 Observatory &#8211; Bellagio-Via Lattea (G.Ventre) <a href="https://t.co/QMuUqq1Qwm">pic.twitter.com/QMuUqq1Qwm</a>
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The comet will reach its nearest point to the sun in December before moving farther away from the Earth&#8217;s solar system.
Until 2021, the K2 was the largest spotted comet. The Hubble Space Telescope observed a mega-comet last year that is so large that it&#8217;s <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2021/06/24/mega-comet-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-mysterious-ice-monster-from-half-a-light-year-away/?sh=35e450122c23" target="_blank" rel="noopener">classified</a> as a minor planet.
The comet&#8217;s approach also follows the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-nasa-releases-the-deepest-sharpest-infrared-photo-of-the-universe-ever-from-space-telescope" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recent news</a> of NASA&#8217;s release of “the deepest, sharpest infrared” photograph of the universe in history late on Monday afternoon, which was captured by the James Webb Space Telescope, the largest space telescope ever built.
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👀 Sneak a peek at the deepest &amp; sharpest infrared image of the early universe ever taken — all in a day’s work for the Webb telescope. (Literally, capturing it took less than a day!) This is Webb’s first image released as we begin to <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/UnfoldTheUniverse?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#UnfoldTheUniverse</a>: <a href="https://t.co/tlougFWg8B">https://t.co/tlougFWg8B</a> <a href="https://t.co/Y7ebmQwT7j">pic.twitter.com/Y7ebmQwT7j</a>
&mdash; NASA Webb Telescope (@NASAWebb) <a href="https://twitter.com/NASAWebb/status/1546621080298835970?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 11, 2022</a></blockquote>
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“Most stars appear blue, and are sometimes as large as more distant galaxies that appear next to them,” NASA said.
“A very bright star is just above and left of center. It has eight bright blue, long diffraction spikes. Between 4 o’clock and 6 o’clock in its spikes are several very bright galaxies. A group of three are in the middle, and two are closer to 4 o’clock. These galaxies are part of the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723, and they are warping the appearances of galaxies seen around them. Long orange arcs appear at left and right toward the center,&#8221; it added.
On Tuesday, the <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/webbfirstimages" target="_blank" rel="noopener">first five images</a> were released by NASA to the public.

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NASA released &#8220;the deepest, sharpest infrared&#8221; photograph of the universe in history late on Monday afternoon which was captured by the James Webb Space Telescope, the largest space telescope ever built.
The image from the James Webb Space Telescope, which is much more powerful than the Hubble Space Telescope, shows thousands of galaxies appearing in various colors against the black background of space. The image was dubbed by NASA as &#8220;Webb&#8217;s First Deep Field&#8221;
&#8220;Most stars appear blue, and are sometimes as large as more distant galaxies that appear next to them,&#8221; NASA said. &#8220;A very bright star is just above and left of center. It has eight bright blue, long diffraction spikes. Between 4 o’clock and 6 o’clock in its spikes are several very bright galaxies. A group of three are in the middle, and two are closer to 4 o’clock. These galaxies are part of the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723, and they are warping the appearances of galaxies seen around them. Long orange arcs appear at left and right toward the center.&#8221;
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👀 Sneak a peek at the deepest &amp; sharpest infrared image of the early universe ever taken — all in a day’s work for the Webb telescope. (Literally, capturing it took less than a day!) This is Webb’s first image released as we begin to <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/UnfoldTheUniverse?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#UnfoldTheUniverse</a>: <a href="https://t.co/tlougFWg8B">https://t.co/tlougFWg8B</a> <a href="https://t.co/Y7ebmQwT7j">pic.twitter.com/Y7ebmQwT7j</a>
&mdash; NASA Webb Telescope (@NASAWebb) <a href="https://twitter.com/NASAWebb/status/1546621080298835970?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 11, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The image, a composite image comprised of different images that were captured at different wavelengths, was taken by the telescope&#8217;s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam). The images represent more than 12 hours of recording.
&#8220;The image showed various galaxies that shined around other galaxies whose light has been bent,&#8221; NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, a Democrat, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/science/president-biden-image-nasa-james-webb-telescope">said</a>. &#8220;If you held a grain of sand on the tip of your finger at arms length, that is the part of the universe that you&#8217;re seeing. Just one little speck of the universe.&#8221;
NASA will be releasing more images from the first batch of the telescope&#8217;s photographs on Tuesday morning during a live NASA TV broadcast.
Jonathan Gardner, Webb deputy senior project scientist at NASA, said that because Webb is so much bigger than Hubble scientists can see galaxies that are so far away that it has taken light &#8220;billions of years to get from those galaxies to ourselves&#8221; and thus it gives scientists a better picture of what the universe looked like shortly after its creation.
&#8220;The James Webb Space Telescope will give us a fresh and powerful set of eyes to examine our universe,&#8221; Eric Smith, Webb program scientist and NASA Astrophysics Division chief scientist, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/11/world/james-webb-space-telescope-first-image-scn/index.html">said</a>. &#8220;The world is about to be new again.&#8221;
This report has been updated to include additional information.

The James Webb Space Telescope Launches From French Guiana

NASA Releases ‘The Deepest, Sharpest Infrared’ Photo Of The Universe Ever From Space Telescope

NASA releases the first image from the James Webb Space Telescope: 'Webb's First Deep Field'

On Tuesday, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nasa">NASA</a> will display photographs and information from the James Webb Space Telescope, the largest space telescope ever sent into space, which has been in the works for 30 years at a cost of $10 billion and intends to reach back to the beginnings of the universe.
Roughly 20,000 people have played a part in the telescope’s development over the years, from engineers and astronomers to technicians and government officials. Orbiting the sun about a million miles from Earth, the telescope’s <a href="https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/observatory/instruments/nirspec.html">Near Infrared Spectrograph</a>, or NIRSpec, was just verified only days ago, permitting the telescope to capture rainbows of infrared light from space.
The pictures to be displayed show “colors no human eye has seen,” <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/10/science/nasa-webb-telescope-images.html?smtyp=cur&amp;smid=tw-nytimesscience">The New York Times</a> reported.
The Webb Telescope will far outstrip the capacities of the famed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/something-weird-is-going-on-in-the-universe-nasa-says">Hubble telescope</a> in its quest into space and time.  In 2018, NASA introduced a double-blind system for proposals from scientists wanting to use the Hubble; the Webb Telescope will <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03538-8">also feature</a> such a process for accepting applicants to use it.
“We all know that Webb will absolutely blow Hubble out of the water by going deeper and finding the earliest galaxies,” asserted Garth Illingworth, an astrophysicist who has utilized Hubble.
“What I have seen moved me as a scientist, an engineer and a human being,” Pamela Melroy, former astronaut and NASA deputy administrator enthused of the photographs.
The five cosmic objects <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/nasa-shares-list-of-cosmic-targets-for-webb-telescope-s-first-images">targeted</a> by the Webb Telescope include the Carina Nebula, roughly  7,600 light years away; the WASP-96 b (spectrum), an exoplanet about half the mass of Jupiter; the Southern Ring Nebula, roughly 2,000 light years away from Earth; Stephan’s Quintet in the constellation Pegasus, about 290 million light years distant, and SMACS 0723.
The Webb Space Telescope will offer a more detailed view of space dust, which heretofore posed a problem for astronomers because telescopes could not penetrate them and see beyond. The tiniest of these space dust particles are called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs).
But with the use of infrared astronomy, a telescope such as the Webb Telescope “has capabilities that dwarf those of previous infrared telescopes and will revolutionize astronomy,” <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/tiny-dust-could-yield-big-answers-under-webb-telescope-s-gaze">claimed</a> Louis Allamandola, a pioneer in the field examining space dust.
Christiaan Boersma, an astronomer at NASA’s Ames Research Center, celebrated, “We’ll be able to see details — better details — on smaller scales than ever before. This will reveal how PAHs form and evolve in very different astronomical environments. And that will allow us to unravel the photophysics and chemistry that drive how star-forming structures arise and explain the remarkable diversity of objects we observe, from exoplanets and stars to galaxies.”