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A lot of #SETIshorts videos about #JWST are coming out on the @SETIInstitute YT. Many of these interviews were captured by @AllPlanets during the "First Science Results from JWST" #JWSTFirstScience conference back in December 2022 @stsci @spacetelescope https://www.youtube.com/@SETIInstitute
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#SETIShorts: Can JWST Take Pictures of Exoplanets ft. Julien Girard

We caught up with J…
https://twitter.com/SETIInstitute/status/1618764727932395520

#JWSTFirstScience Conference photo taken this past week where we saw the Universe in a whole new way. I've never heard astronomers audibly "ooo" and "aww" so much at a conference.

Photo of more than 100 astronomers standing in front of 3 screens containing photos of more astronomers.

“It is so thrilling to see what we got! Everything we did was worth it.” #NASAWebb Senior Project Scientist and Nobel Prize laureate John Mather from NASA Goddard sums up the excitement of #JWSTFirstScience. What’s in store for the future? “If it’s not impossible, let’s do it!”

#STScI #JWST #space #astronomy

We just finished a three day meeting describing some of the first results from JWST. #JWSTFirstScience

My take away: Despite living in an expanding Universe...the Universe doesn't feel quite as big as it did this time last year.

This is incredible!
A glimpse into the possibility of life elsewhere in our universe
#NASA #JWSTFirstScience
#JWST
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04452-3

JWST data on TRAPPIST-1 is here

This is not a drill

JWST data on TRAPPIST-1 is here

By me, from #JWSTFirstScience symposium in Baltimore this week https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04452-3

Brittany Miles from the University of Arizona is explaining how she’s using #NASAWebb spectroscopy to study the atmospheric chemistry of brown dwarfs. What’s so interesting about brown dwarfs? https://webbtelescope.org/contents/articles/what-makes-brown-dwarfs-unique
#JWSTFirstScience #JWST #STScI #NASAWebb

Photograph of Brittany Miles speaking to an audience. She is standing behind a podium labeled “STScI Space Telescope Science Institute.” Behind her is a screen with the title slide for her talk. It includes an illustration of a star and a large pinkish planet-like object. At the top is the title: “A 1 micron to 20 micron Spectrum of the Planetary-Mass Companion VHS 1256b.” At the bottom: “Brittany E. Miles (University of Arizona). The JWST Early Release Science Program for Direct Observations of Exoplanet Systems Collaboration. December 14, 2022.”

@bobkopp this is why I am at the masks-required #JWSTFirstScience meeting. It is excellent. I thought I would miss #AGU22 but nope.

Geronimo Villanueva from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center is explaining how we can use the James Webb Space Telescope’s sensitive infrared spectroscopic capabilities to measure the abundance of key gases—like water, carbon dioxide, and methane—on Mars and other planets and moons in our solar system. #JWSTFirstScience #JWST #STScI #NASAWebb

Photograph of Geronimo Villanueva speaking to an audience. He is standing behind a podium with the words, “STScI Space Telescope Science Institute.” Behind him is a screen with a slide showing three labeled images of Mars.

Imke de Pater from UC Berkeley is explaining her team’s work using the James Webb Space Telescope observations to build a more detailed understanding of Jupiter’s atmosphere. #JWSTFirstScience #STScI #NASAWebb #JWST

Photograph of Imke de Pater speaking to an audience.

Ryan Lau from NOIRLab is using the James Webb Space Telescope to study the colliding winds that formed the brilliant rings of carbon-rich dust ejected every 7.93 years by the binary star system WR 140. Check out the preview Ryan gave us back in October: webbtelescope.pub/3S3D8xO #JWSTFirstScience #NOIRLab #JWST #NASAWebb #STScI

Photograph of Ryan Lau speaking to an audience. He is standing in front of a screen with an image showing distinct concentric rings of dust surrounding WR 140. The center is bright yellow and grades out to deeper shades of orange and red with distance. The rings look very similar to tree rings.

Yao-Lun Yang from the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research in Japan shared how he’s using the James Webb Space Telescope to study organic ices like methane and ethanol found in disks of material where stars and planets are forming. The ices are important in planet formation–the chemistry happens on the surfaces of the ice grains!
#JWSTFirstScience #NASAWebb #STScI #JWST

Photograph of Yao-Lun Yang speaking to an audience. He is standing in front of a screen with presentation slide with words “hydrogenation” “radical-radical reactions” “low temperature” and “high temperature” visible.

What does the Ring Nebula look like through JWST? Super-pretty! Presented by Roger Wesson at #JWSTFirstScience symposium today in Baltimore

Enjoying this conference so much :)
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Welcome to Day 2 of the #JWSTFirstScience Conference here at the Space Telescope Science Institute!

First up: What we’re learning about star formation and characteristics of nearby populations of stars from #NASAWebb.
https://twitter.com/SpaceTelescope/status/1602663676099567616

$Webb NIRCam image of the Cosmic Cliffs, a star-forming region in the Carina Nebula. The image is divided horizontally by an undulating line between a cloudscape forming a nebula along the bottom portion and a comparatively clear upper portion. Speckled across both portions is a starfield, showing innumerable stars of many sizes. The smallest of these are small, distant, and faint points of light. The largest of these appear larger, closer, brighter, and more fully resolved with 8-point diffraction spikes. The upper portion of the image is blueish, and has wispy translucent cloud-like streaks rising from the nebula below. The orangish cloudy formation in the bottom half varies in density and ranges from translucent to opaque. The stars vary in color, the majority of which, have a blue or orange hue. The cloud-like structure of the nebula contains ridges, peaks, and valleys – an appearance very similar to a mountain range.$

With the help of gravitational lenses—nature’s magnifying glasses—#NASAWebb has captured images and spectra of exceptionally faint galaxies. Guido Roberts-Borsani from #UCLA explains how we’re using Webb to understand ancient galaxies that burned off the cosmic fog of the Dark Ages. #JWSTFirstScience #JWST #STScI

Photograph of Guido Roberts-Borsani speaking to an audience. He is standing next to a podium labeled “STScI Space Telescope Science Institute.” Above the podium is a screen showing an illustration of the James Webb Space Telescope. The telescope is oriented with the mirror face on. A couple of audience heads are visible.

Adam Carnall of Edinburgh's Royal Observatory just revealed some surprising results: #NASAWebb is finding a bunch of “massive quiescent galaxies at high redshift” i.e., big galaxies that seem to have finished most of their star-formation within the first billion years of the universe! #JWSTFirstScience #STScI #JWST

Photograph of Adam Carnall on two screens in an auditorium, speaking remotely to an audience. On a larger screen is a talk slide titled “A massive quiescent galaxy at z=4.7!” Below the title is a spectrum: graph of a flux versus wavelength. The photo is from the back of the auditorium and shows the backs of many people in the audience.

Macarena Garcia Marin, James Webb Space Telescope Instrument Scientist/Deputy Project Scientist in the Webb Mission Office at STScI, is briefing us on Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI): “We are seeing unsurpassed sensitivity and resolution. It’s really excellent quality!” #NASAWebb #STScI #JWSTFirstScience #ESA #JWST

$Photograph of Macarena Garcia Marin speaking in front of an audience. She is standing behind a podium labeled with the words “STScI Space Telescope Science Institute.” She is pointing to the screen with a slide titled, “MIRI Imager Performance.” The slide shows 9 images in a 3 by 3 grid. Each image shows a star with diffraction spikes, as seen with a specific MIRI filter. The image highlights the resolution of each filter.$

“We’re looking ahead to a long and productive science lifetime with this observatory!” Dr. Jane Rigby from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center is commending the collective efforts of the more than 20,000 people who designed, built, tested, and commissioned the extraordinary Webb telescope. #JWSTFirstScience #NASAWebb

Photograph of Jane Rigby speaking to an audience.

“I’m so excited to be here this morning. We’re going to hear some amazing results!” – #STScI Acting Director Nancy Levenson introducing the First Science Results from #NASAWebb conference, being held here at the Space Telescope Science Institute. #JWSTFirstScience

Photograph of STScI Acting Director Nancy Levenson speaking into a microphone from behind a podium with the words “STScI Space Telescope Science Institute.”

#JWSTFirstScience conference is starting tomorrow. For more information on how to live stream the event see https://www.stsci.edu/contents/news/jwst/2022/live-streaming-the-first-science-results-conference

#JWSTFirstScience

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