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Last night we had the first science-ready image from #JWST, NASA & ESA’s new space telescope. Today, we’re going to do it all again with a press conference at 3.30pm BST revealing the rest of #JWST’s first photo album. (1/n)
Here’s a list of the shots we’re expecting. After the beauty and wonder of last night’s distant galaxies, I’m drooling at the prospect of Stephan’s Quintet in particular (2/n)
As I said last night, I think a lot of us were surprised by the crystal-clear sharpness of the images, which is not what we always expect in infrared images. The giant #JWST mirror really helps, which is why they went to all of that trouble to fold it up for launch (3/n)
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We're about an hour away from the release of the first proper images from #JWST, the telescope that launched on Christmas Day. (1/n)
Since then, the team from NASA & ESA have been working hard to commission the instruments and get it ready for science. Today is a milestone in that process. (2/n)
The observatory is already hard at work; all over the world, astronomers are getting their hands on data from its golden mirrors, learning how to use new software to analyse it, and preparing to tell new stories (3/n)
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Next up at #NAM2022 is @astronomerslc25 on the manifold wonders of brown dwarfs, stars with atmospheres more like giant planets such as Jupiter.
@astronomerslc25 Like @DrJoVian, I'm a little surprised to be reminded brown dwarfs were first discovered in my lifetime. They're such a central part of astronomy right now (because of links to exoplanets), bizarre to think it was only 1987 when first one was found.
@astronomerslc25 Keeping an eye on brown dwarfs shows changing properties as they rotate, so their atmospheres must be dynamic - they have weather, like Jupiter.
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