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In addition to looking at distant stars, galaxies and exoplanets, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope will investigate our Solar System.
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Northrup Grumman
NASA image release September 17, 2010
In preparation for a cryogenic test NASA Goddard technicians install instrument mass simulators onto the James Webb Space Telescope ISIM structure. The ISIM Structure supports and holds the four Webb telescope science instruments : the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI), the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), the Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) and the Fine Guidance Sensor (FGS).
Credit: NASA/GSFC/Chris Gunn
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4/2022 - Webb, MS
As I head south looking for any activity on the Mississippi Delta RR, I found this derelict station along the former YMV/IC branch line.
I have posted a shot of the inside of this before. Melbourne is a mix of tradtional and modern architecture and anything new that is built is generally very modern and futuristic looking - one of the things I love about the city.
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Cette image du télescope spatial James Webb montre le cœur de M74, autrement connu sous le nom de galaxie fantôme. De délicats filaments de gaz et de poussière dans les grandioses bras en spirale s'y enroulent vers l'extérieur à partir du centre. Un manque de gaz dans la région nucléaire fournit également une vue dégagée de l'amas d'étoiles au centre de la galaxie.
A environ 32 millions d'années-lumière de la Terre dans la constellation des Poissons (Pisces), celle-ci se trouve presque face à la Terre. Ses bras spiraux dans lesquelles les étoiles se forment sont ici tracés par du bleu et des éclats de rose. Proéminents et bien définis, ils n'ont pas la structure inégale et irrégulière observée dans certaines autres galaxies du même type. Le cœur même de la galaxie, coloré en bleu, a des taches qui sont de jeunes étoiles se formant autour de son noyau.
Avec son instrument (MIRI) spécialisé dans l'infrarouge moyen, Webb cherche à en savoir plus sur les premières phases de la formation d'étoiles dans l'Univers local. Ces observations devaient permettre aux astronomes de localiser les régions de formation d'étoiles dans les galaxies, de mesurer avec précision les masses et les âges des amas d'étoiles et de mieux comprendre la nature des petits grains de poussière dérivant dans l'espace interstellaire (cf. ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, J. Lee et Equipe PHANGS-JWST, Remerciements à J. Schmidt. Image traitée par ESA).
Pour situer M74 dans sa constellation :
Following the complete assembly of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, testing teams performed a comprehensive systems evaluation which allowed them to confidently assess Webb’s software and electronic performance as a single fully connected vehicle. Read more about that testing here: www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/nasa-s-james-webb-space...
Image: This image is from February 2020 when the telescope went through a mirror deployment test. Read more about that here: www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/49722253141/in/da...
Credits: NASA/Chris Gunn
Chamber A’s sealed, vault-like door towers over engineers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Read the full story: www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/nasa-closes-chamber-a-d...
Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn
Fine Thomas Webb Intaglio cut green cased wine glass from circa 1910. Cornucopia and floral swags to bowl and swags to foot.
This photo of the James Webb Space Telescope was captured by our lead photographer Chris Gunn during our launch preparation at Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. Webb launched on Dec 25, 2021. This photo the fueling team wears special hazard suits to protect them while fueling the spacecraft.
Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn
Webbs of Stratford now Operate DF51CWC a Setra S315 C53F that was formally with Maghulls Coaches operating the Magical Mystery tour in Liverpool and now seen here at Showbus. Photo taken 26/09/21
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Explanatory graphic published in the February 19 issue of Science, describing the construction and deployment of the James Webb Space telescope.
Associated link: www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/02/building-james-webb-bigge...
This Webb model was made by Alex Benes Jr.
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Image Credit: Alex Benes Jr.
James E. Webb was the second administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, formally established on October 1, 1958 under the National Aeronautics and Space Act. Webb is widely known for his effective leadership during the beginning of the American space program, and particularly for his foresite in commanding the agency to keep scientific objectives as a primary concern. Under his direction NASA undertook one of the most impressive series of projects in human history with the goal of landing an American on the Moon through the execution of Project Apollo.
Webb was known to be highly supportive of science during his tenure as NASA Administrator. He worked to enhance the key role and importance of scientists by giving them greater control in the selection process of space science missions. He also created the NASA University Program, which established grants for space research, funded the construction of new laboratories at universities and provided fellowships for graduate students. The program also encouraged university presidents and vice presidents to actively participate in NASA's Space Science Program and to publicly support all of NASA's programs.
As part of an oral history project sponsored by the LBJ Library in Austin, Texas, Webb recalled his conversations with President John F. Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon Johnson. He was quoted as saying in one transcript, "And so far as I'm concerned, I'm not going to run a program that's just a one-shot program. If you want me to be the administrator, it's going to be a balanced program that does the job for the country..."
By the time Webb retired just prior to the first moon landing in July 1969, NASA had launched over 75 science missions to study the stars and galaxies, our own Sun and home planet. Missions such as the Orbiting Solar Observatory and the Explorer series of astronomical satellites built the foundation for the most successful period of scientific discovery in history, which continues on today.
Influenced by the same exploratory spirit, the James Webb Space Telescope was named in his honor by the then acting administrator, Sean O’Keefe in 2002. The iconic new age observatory will become the masthead of the world’s combined efforts in astrophysics and cosmic exploration, much like the legacy of Mr. Webb. His steady oversight and unwavering support of NASA during its most critical period is why his name is attached to the next big thing in space.
James Webb inspired an optimism towards science, and enthusiasm for the future by ensuring NASA invested in goals of human and scientific exploration. Recognizing that in order to accomplish the goal of going to the moon NASA needed the best scientists and engineers, Webb fought hard to ensure they had a proper place in the agency.
“I think he’d be happy to have such a huge technological feat named after him. The fact that he was the power behind the Apollo Program - an enormously complex undertaking to get someone on the moon, and now here’s this ultimate state of the art observatory pushing the agency technologically in the way that Apollo did on the human spaceflight side,” said Eric P. Smith, NASA’s Program Scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope Program. “The fact that we have scientists at all at NASA could be attributed to James Webb,” he added.
The James Webb Space Telescope will be the world's premier space science observatory. Webb will solve mysteries of our solar system, look beyond to distant worlds around other stars, and probe the mysterious structures and origins of our universe and our place in it. Webb is an international project led by NASA with its partners, ESA (European Space Agency) and the Canadian Space Agency.
Image credit: NASA
More on James E. Webb: www.jwst.nasa.gov/whois.html
Dr. Nancy Grace Roman is seen here visiting the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) alongside astrophysicist, Dr. Jane R Rigby outside the clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md on Friday, March 31, 2017.
Dr. Nancy Grace Roman was the first Chief of Astronomy in the Office of Space Science at NASA Headquarters and the first woman to hold an executive position at NASA. In her role, she had oversight for the planning and development of programs including the Cosmic Background Explorer and the Hubble Space Telescope. The WFIRST observatory was named the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope on May 20, 2020.
Dr. Roman received her PhD in astronomy from the University of Chicago in 1949 and joined NASA in 1959. She finished her NASA career at Goddard Space Flight Center where she served as the manager of the Astronomical Data Center. After retiring from NASA in 1979, she continued working as a contractor at Goddard. Throughout her career, Dr. Roman has been a spokesperson and advocate of women in the sciences.
Credit: NASA/Maggie Masetti
This is the Spacecraft Element of the James Webb Space Telescope, which includes the spacecraft bus and the tennis court-sized sunshield. Here it is shown folded in a launch configuration, encasing a mock-up of the telescope. The telescope is the part of the observatory that includes the golden mirrors and instruments. The flight telescope is complete and successfully finished its testing at NASA Goddard before being shipped to Northrop Grumman where it will be mated with the Spacecraft Element. The mock unit is used to simulate weight, size and mass of the flight telescope for test purposes.
In this photo, the Spacecraft Element is being prepped and lifted for a mechanical shock test in Northrop Grumman's facilities. Why was this test done? After the second stage of the rocket gives Webb a final nudge to send it on its way to its orbit at the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point (L2), the two halves of the payload adapter separate, releasing Webb from the rocket. The release sends a mechanical shock — a series of high-frequency vibrations — through the observatory. “Mechanical shock is a quick jolt to the system, a lot like when you shut your car door and the car shudders a little,” explained Keith Parrish, the Observatory Manager for Webb at NASA Goddard. The electronics in Webb are designed to withstand this shock just as a laptop is designed to withstand the bangs and drops of everyday life.
To simulate this separation on Earth, engineers at Northrop Grumman first suspended the spacecraft element in the air with the payload adapter attached to it. They then remotely released the bottom half of the payload adapter, which is the half that will be attached to the rocket during launch. The bottom half fell approximately 8 inches (about 20 centimeters) onto a padded catch area on the floor of the cleanroom where the test was being performed.
The engineers monitored the forces caused by the release to ensure they were within expected values, and high-speed video cameras recorded the separation to make sure it was smooth. During the actual flight and separation, 12 springs will gently push Webb away from the Ariane 5 rocket.
Image credit: Northrop Grumman
Circa 1908, Woodbridge, Suffolk, England.
Believed to be in the rear garden at their Cumberland Street home, or at Howes Farm, Martlesham.
The Webbs were friends of my Gt. Uncle's family.
I believe this to be Eric Reginald Jonas Webb (1906-1964) with his mother, Bessie Mary Webb nee Long (1875-1948).
Eric's father was Reginald Jonas Webb (1874-1948) who, by 1901 lived in Cumberland Street, and later lived at 30, Church Street, Woodbridge, and which is, as far as I know, still owned or at least named 'Webb Brothers' ironmongers shop today.
By 1939, Eric was a Post Office clerk, living with his parents and a sister at 30,Church street.
By 1945 Eric was living at 215, Albany Street, Holborn, London.
By 1951, Eric was living in a flat at 13, Craven Street, Covent Garden, London WC2.
On his death in 1964, his probate states he was at the same address, and his estate was administered by a solicitor.
I can find no record that Eric ever married.
From a family photo album that was formerly Wilfred John Woods', the husband of my Great Aunt, Ada May Woods nee Thornton.
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Webb First Images - Samsung Galaxy S10 - Photographer Russell McNeil PhD (Physics) lives on Vancouver Island, where he works as a writer.
Hello darkness my old friend…
What you are (not) seeing, highlighted in blue, is dark matter. Webb was used to precisely map out the dark matter that is part of the makeup of two colliding galaxy clusters, with help from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. Webb captured more extremely faint galaxies in the Bullet Cluster than ever seen before (as well as foreground stars), allowing scientists to accurately determine the mass of the cluster.
Chandra data shows the hot, X-ray-emitting gas present between the two galaxy clusters (highlighted in pink). As these two galaxy clusters collided, this gas was dragged out and left behind. Webb observations show that the dark matter (in blue) still lines up with the galaxies and was not dragged away.
Normally galaxies consist of gas, dust, stars, and dark matter, all combined, even when the galaxies are part of a cluster. Observing this separation between the gas and dark matter is unusual.
While we cannot see dark matter because it does not emit light, it has mass and gravitational influence on light we can see. It can act like a lens, magnifying and warping objects behind it. Imagine dark matter as water so clear you can’t see it unless the wind ripples it. The ripples will distort the shapes of any pebbles below its surface. Likewise, dark matter distorts the shapes of distant background galaxies. We can’t see it, but we see its effects.
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Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, CXC
Science credit: James Jee (Yonsei University, UC Davis), Sangjun Cha (Yonsei University), Kyle Finner (Caltech/IPAC)
Image description: Webb near-infrared data combined with Chandra X-ray data of the Bullet Cluster show many overlapping objects, including foreground stars, galaxies in galaxy clusters, and distorted background galaxies behind the galaxy clusters. The objects are all at various distances set against the black background of space. Most galaxies appear as tiny fuzzy ovals in white, orange, or red. A slightly larger, very bright, light blue spiral galaxy is at center. To its immediate left and right are two large bright pink splotches representing X-rays. The right pink area has a rounded nose facing right, where it is darker pink, and fades to the left as a triangular shape. This is referred to as the Bullet. To the far left and far right, next to the pink regions, are two blue regions representing dark matter mass. The left blue region is a large, long oval at an angle. The blue region at right is a far smaller oval.
Dust in the (stellar) wind
This new Webb image shows an edge-on protoplanetary disc around a newly formed star, surrounded by jets and a disc wind, in unprecedented detail. This is a Herbig-Haro object, known for having luminous regions that surround protostars. They form when stellar winds or jets of gas that spew from the stars collide with nearby gas and dust at high speeds, forming shockwaves. Read more: esawebb.org/images/potm2501a/
Seeing an object like this edge-on allows astronomers to study how dust grains move within the star’s protoplanetary disc. When there is a narrow, dense layer of dust forming within the disc, it could indicate an important stage in the process of planet formation. In that dense region, the dust grains clump together to form pebbles, and eventually planets.
Emerging at a 90-degree angle from the narrow central disc is a high-velocity jet of gas. The narrow jet is surrounded by a wider, cone-shaped outflow. Enclosing the conical outflow is a wide nebula that reflects the light from the young star that is embedded within the disc. Together, these data reveal HH 30 to be a dynamic place, where tiny dust grains and massive jets alike play a role in the formation of new planets.
Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, Tazaki et al.
Image Description: A close-in image of a protoplanetary disc around a newly formed star. Many different wavelengths of light are combined and represented by separate and various colors. A dark line across the center is the disc, made of opaque dust: the star is hidden in here and creates a strong glow in the center. A band going straight up is a jet, while other outflows form flares above and below the disc, and a tail coming off to one side.
This photo of the James Webb Space Telescope was captured by our lead photographer Chris Gunn during our launch preparation at Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. Webb launched on Dec 25, 2021. This photo shows Webb arriving at the payload preparation complex and spacecraft fueling bay (S5B).
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Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn
Dr. Nancy Grace Roman is seen here visiting the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) outside the clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md on Friday, March 31, 2017.
Dr. Nancy Grace Roman was the first Chief of Astronomy in the Office of Space Science at NASA Headquarters and the first woman to hold an executive position at NASA. In her role, she had oversight for the planning and development of programs including the Cosmic Background Explorer and the Hubble Space Telescope. The WFIRST observatory was named the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope on May 20, 2020.
Dr. Roman received her PhD in astronomy from the University of Chicago in 1949 and joined NASA in 1959. She finished her NASA career at Goddard Space Flight Center where she served as the manager of the Astronomical Data Center. After retiring from NASA in 1979, she continued working as a contractor at Goddard. Throughout her career, Dr. Roman has been a spokesperson and advocate of women in the sciences.
Credit: NASA/Jim Jeletic