Hello and welcome to the How Far Away Is It look at the first images released by the James Webb Space Telescope. It’s been a long wait, but I’m sure you’ll find it was worth it. I’ll start with an early test photo of stars in the Lage Magellanic Cloud. It gives us a hint as to how much more detail we can expect to see with Webb over other space telescopes. Where I can, I start segment with a Hubble image to show the contrast. We’ll take a look at the first formal image release starting with a look at the ‘cosmic cliffs’ in the Carina Nebula followed by the beautiful Southern Ring Nebula. We’ll then cover Webb's analysis of three beautiful galaxies: a bared spiral, a classic spiral and the Cartwheel Ring galaxy. Next, we’ll cover Stephan’s Quintet with a deep look at what Webb found around its central supermassive black hole. And last, we’ll take a deep dive into Webb’s first deep field image. I trust you’ll find it all interesting and informative.
Hello and welcome to our first half of 2022 review, focusing on the James Webb Space Telescope's
first large release. It's been a long wait, but I think you'll find it worth the wait.
In an early test, the release included some stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
We'll take a look at that. And also, whenever I have a Hubble image of the same thing that James
Webb photographed, I'll bring in the Hubble image and we can see the change. We had that one of
those for the Large Magellanic Cloud and several of the other objects. Next, we'll cover the cosmic
cliffs in the Carina Nebula, followed by the beautiful Southern Ring Planetary Nebula.
Then we'll get a focus on three different galaxies, a classic spiral galaxy, a barred
spiral galaxy, where we'll look deeper into the bar, what is going on there, and a ring galaxy,
the cartwheel ring galaxy. Then we'll take a deep look into one of the galaxies in the
Quintet. We'll actually look at and examine the black hole and the material around the black hole
and the material flowing away from the black hole to the point where Webb can actually determine
what that material is made of. Then we'll do a deep dive into Webb's first deep field image
of thousands upon thousands of galaxies. We'll look at warped galaxies and determine whether
they're the same. We'll dive into some of the oldest galaxies that have ever been photographed,
galaxies that Hubble couldn't see. One is 13.1 billion light years away.
And we'll find out what that is made of. So we'll get started with the Large Magellanic Cloud.
I trust you'll find it interesting and informative. Thanks for watching.
