Year Two in Review: Groundbreaking Science Discoveries by JWST

Published 2024-08-07
Macarena Garcia Marin, Space Telescope Science Institute/European Space Agency

The James Webb Space Telescope is the largest, most sophisticated telescope ever launched into space. After two years of normal science operations, JWST has opened a new window into the universe and is making revolutionary discoveries across all areas of astronomy. Dr. Marin will review Webb’s most impactful and unexpected discoveries to date, and will look to the future and the investigations yet to come for this flagship observatory.

- News from the Universe starts at 3:06
- Main talk starts at 11:28

Host: Frank Summers, Space Telescope Science Institute
Recorded live on Tuesday, August 6, 2024
More information: www.stsci.edu/public-lectures

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All Comments (7)
  • @indigo4953
    Another fantastic webcast Frank! Macarena's presentation is wonderful and the after discussion was great!
  • @VCT3333
    Does the good doctor do the namesake dance along with Flamenco?
  • @ZhanMorli
    Modern technologies make it possible to rework the Michelson Morley experiment of 1881/2024 and use it to measure aircraft speeds of 300, 400 m/s. This allows you to 100% verify the postulates of Einstein's SRT. Why don't they do this❤? Or there will be other evidence from direct experience postulate type: Light is an ordered vibration of gravitational quanta and dominant gravitational fields adjust the speed of light in a vacuum. Maybe it will be possible to make scientific discoveries; in astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology, higher theoretical physics…
  • For anyone who would actually like to see something about JWST. The title is year two in review. You can skip to 24:30 unless you want to hear the first 13 minutes about the commentator's introduction of the woman. She loves Elvis, long walks on the beach, exercises regularly. Then she comes on and covers year one in review, artistic impressions of what a JWST photograph might look like and what her feeling were about it all. But you get to 24:30 and it might actually be a filtered sample of what somebody decided that we might look at with JWST if it weren't filtered to the lowest possible resolution. As has been the usual for the subject of JWST, if it blew up on the pad, was stolen from the truck drivers who were driving it around in circles for five years or caught on fire and never left the assembly area, we would get the same amount of information. I'm not actually heckling. If you were there for the problems with Hubble, you would understand my pessimism. We were going to start out with building a rather small and inexpensive telescope with intentions of civilian use. We ask NASA for information, and they won't give us any, so we will need to figure everything out the hard way. Space telescope was supposed to be 1/2 meter and made with existing, available parts. NASA is a USAF operation, so it does make quite a bit of sense that NASA will never let us have any information. THERE WAS NO SUCH THING AS A SOLID STATE IMAGER IN ANY BOOK OR ON ANY MARKET. The next thing I know, NASA IS BITCHING ABOUT THE QUALITY OF THE IMAGE and won't tell us what the telescope does. It is now over thirty years later, I have finally found out that it has a 2.4 meter mirror because that was the biggest thing they could get up in the air. I DONT KNOW WHY THEY WOULD ASSUME IT WAS ANY SPECIFIC DESIGN, I DON'T KNOW WHAT OPTICAL DESIGN IT IS. it might be ground for a Schmit, a Newtonian or a Schmitt Newtonian, but I doubt anybody ordered a Ritchey–Chrétien or corrected Dall Kirkham because that would involve NASA releasing anything other than the word "Schmitt" to the company grinding the mirror.
  • @ray1956
    Black hole 🕳️ was NEVER like a rabbit hole 😂😂. It’s a distortion of space 🧑🏿‍💻👨🏿‍⚕️🤷🏿‍♂️
  • @timothy8426
    External magnetic fields spinning all external heat energy within its field like a record on a record player centrifugal force of magnetism flowing around these massive external magnetic fields at the event horizon perimeter spinning heat faster than normal momentum of space within its immediate accretion disk where cold repulsion within it is neutralized from occupational heat energy outside the event horizon perimeter allowing faster than normal space momentum velocity propulsion and quantum internal magnetic fields grounding currents through its nucleus as neutralized repulsion within mass as outward force of pressure as magnetism has quantumized event horizon perimeter within its nuclei at its nucleus or core where external heat energy is cycling circulation faster than normal momentum of space as mass. As mass expands into occupational space itself within mass as outward force of pressure its internal magnetic fields grounding currents through its nucleus or core expands outward in equalization to magnetism. Earth's magnetic field is internal and cycling circulation faster than normal space through its core is an internal magnetic field grounding currents through its nucleus or core. Magnetism is cold repulsion to heat energy propulsion momentum from cold repulsion momentum as space itself as a weak external magnetic field. External magnetic fields don't ground currents through the nucleus or core where external heat energy propulsion spinning around the monopoles of pure fabric of cold space repulsion within its core where force at the event horizon perimeter is faster. External magnetic fields don't ground currents but disolve internal magnetic fields grounding currents by redirected trajectories towards the weakest point of repulsion and the greater external magnetic field redirected renewable heat energy away from internal magnetic fields disolving. Fire is an external magnetic field disolving internal magnetic fields grounding currents into external heat energy outside of entanglement of mass as potential renewable heat energy. Magnetic fields have force of pressure. When you walk towards the fire, the pressure increases as distance traveling reduces. Walking away from fire distance, traveling increases, and the force of pressure decreases. That is an external magnetic field. Mass is always outward force of pressure. It can't collapse in on itself because it can't exceed cold repulsion neutralized within mass as occupational space itself within mass as neutralized cold repulsion within as outward force of pressure known as weightless outside of a greater magnetic field. Impaction is the force of currents grounding themselves into all mass in its path, including atmospheric gasses. That's why mass falls in equalization to magnetism repulsion within and without entanglement of mass as magnetism. Theoretically factual probability that works with quantum physics without gravity and bending space is magnetism. Magnetism explains everything about physics.