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AP News Radio
NASA Webb telescope captures star on cusp of death
"NASA released a new image from the James Webb Space Telescope, the telescope is captured the rare and fleeting phase of a star. The light from that star has been traveling through space for about 15,000 years. NASA's amber strong says the material seen around the wolf rayet star that looks like dust is dust. The star is dying. But the end of a star's life, they shed their outer material. Their outer layers out into the rest of the universe. Shimmering in purple like a cherry blossom, the star may be dying, but the dust will live on. Spreading out into the cosmos and will eventually create planets. And this is how we got here, in fact. NASA says this star in the constellation Sagittarius is 30 times as massive as our sun and already has shed enough material to account for ten suns. I'm Ed Donahue
AP News Radio
Space telescope uncovers massive galaxies near cosmic dawn
"NASA's new James Webb Space Telescope is spotted some massive galaxies lead researcher Evo laby and his team were expecting to find little baby galaxies. It was kind of shocking because some of these galaxies were 13 billion light years away. And they had a 100 billion solar masses stars. And so what that means is that we are viewing these galaxies very shortly. We have the Big Bang. About 600 million years after the beginning of the universe. I know it sounds like a lot, 600 million years, but our universe is 13.8 billion years old. The objects were so big and bright that some team members thought they had made a mistake. As opposed to the Milky Way, which is this grand design spiral galaxy like you have seen in pictures with a beautiful spiral arms. This galaxy is 30 times smaller. So all those stars are jam packed. Lapi says in early lesson from the Webb telescope is to let go of your expectations and be ready to be surprised. I'm Ed Donahue
TED Talks Daily
"james webb" Discussed on TED Talks Daily
"When it came time for letters of recommendation, I asked my chemistry teacher to write me a letter, and he said no. And I said, why not? He said, you'll never get into MIT. So I ask my history teacher instead. And she did write a letter and I did get into MIT. And when I brought back my acceptance letter and showed it to my chemistry teacher, look, I got into MIT. He said, because you're a woman. They have quotas to fill. This is a 1978 when people said things like that to your face. That made me angry more than anything. So I was determined to go to MIT and graduate. What are some of the most nagging, unanswered questions in your mind that exist in astronomy? Any field in astronomy could be anywhere in the universe close to home far away. What bugs you, what keeps you up at night? How did the first stars and galaxies form in the universe? We have lots of models and theories, but to be able to make actual observations as early as we can to tie together some of the disparate observations we have with a coherent story. I think that is an area that is very, very interesting right now. And of course, that's why James Webb Space Telescope was built to add to a piece to that story. I think I'm also interested in how our planetary system that we live in, how did it, in particular, come to be, and how did it come to be habitable? We know this is the only one the only system that we know is inhabited, right? This our solar system. Right. Is it required that you have giant planets in the outer system and small planets in the inner solar system to make habitability or is it just by happenstance? Did you have to have a Jupiter to make it habitable? Did you have to have a Neptune to sweep out through the Kuiper belt and deliver volatiles to the inner solar system water and stuff? I mean, that's so interesting and. It touches us as humans like how did we come to be it's part of our story. It's part of our life story. And so I'm very interested in that question as well. And we still have so many observations left to make. Both within our solar system and in the greater universe, I think astronomers will be busy for a long time to come. Ted-talks daily is hosted by me, Elise Hugh, and produced by Ted. Theme music is from Alison Leighton Brown in our mixer is Christopher phase bogan. We record the talks at Ted events we host or from TEDx events, which are organized independently by volunteers all over the world. And we'd love to hear from you. Leave us a review on Apple podcasts or email us at podcasts at Ted dot com. PRX.
TED Talks Daily
"james webb" Discussed on TED Talks Daily
"But James Webb Space Telescope, the sensitivity is so good and the imaging capability is so good that the scattered light from Jupiter does not spread, even out to the local place where the rings are. So in our first images, engineering images of Jupiter that were taken just to test the scattered light on the camera. They took a couple of sharp short images of Jupiter and moved Jupiter closer and closer to the fine guidance sensor to see if it would screw up our guiding. Even in the short engineering images, the rings are right there. Beautiful. Just totally resolved right next to the planet a million times brighter. Well, can we talk about planets outside the solar system too? Sure. Yeah. What's your favorite? What's your favorite? Oh, I don't know. I got a couple of favorites. Yeah? I think a lot of astronomers, a favorite system right now, is the trappist one system. Yeah, tell me about it. Yeah, trappist one is that's the name of the star. Well, trappist is the name of the survey, right? But it looked at this star. And it discovered that there are at least 7 planets orbiting this star. And most of those planets seem to be earth sized in the trappist one system, several of the planets are the right distance from the host star. That water could be liquid on the surface of them. We call that the habitable zone. Right. And you and I could have a long talk about what happened to the actual means, but you know, in our solar system, at least on our earth, the only place that we know life exists is a lot of water. And so when we're talking about looking for habitable planets, we look at planets that are at the right distance from their host star that they could have water on them. So that trappist system that we know that there are planets in potentially habitable region and that those planets are roughly earth sized.
TED Talks Daily
"james webb" Discussed on TED Talks Daily
"Like a honeycomb. Like a honeycomb, exactly. But then I had to unfold in space, and I remember how nervous people were about this process because it really was something that everything every single step had to go right. Not only did the telescope have to fold up, but if you look at Webb, it's got this huge contraption underneath it, which we call a sunshield. And that's crucial for this telescope. How did you feel as you were witnessing the deployment sequence? I sure was nervous, just like everybody else. There were several single point failures where if that thing didn't unbolt or unfold, we didn't have a working telescope anymore. Yeah. So it was extremely nerve wracking. But we had many years of testing because we knew that there was no fixing this telescope. This telescope is not in low earth orbit like Hubble. The James Webb Space Telescope is a million miles away at a point called the L two point. And it was put out there deliberately because it needed to be cold. It needed to have the sunshield to protect the telescope from the warmth of the sun, the warmth of the earth, and even the warmth of our moon. So the sunshield is designed to be like an umbrella to protect it, a sun umbrella that keeps that telescope super cold, so we couldn't put it in low earth orbit because it's just too warm in that environment. You can't sense infrared light when it's hot. You have to have it cold. By the way, that's also why this telescope is completely exposed to the elements of space. Most other telescopes have tubes that enclose them, and this one doesn't, the mirrors are just sitting out. They're just out there. They're just sitting out there. So the first deep field from JWST, I think the analogy I heard was that the image itself covers about the amount of space as a grain of rice on a fingertip held at arm's length. Is that right? I heard a grain of sand, not a green of rice. Okay. But it's the same concept. The piece of sky you see in that picture, if you were standing in your backyard and looking up in the sky, that piece of sky is about the same size as a tiny grain of sand, moved your grain of sand over to the left, you would see those more galaxies. And over to the left again, more galaxies, and anywhere you looked in the sky, it is filled with galaxies. Just thousands and thousands and that one image
AP News Radio
James Webb Space Telescope shows Jupiter as never seen before
"The new Webb space telescope is showing Jupiter's auroras and tiny moons Photos released by NASA and taken last month show Jupiter's northern and southern lights and swirling polar haze There were a lot of images that stood out including Jupiter's great red spot a storm big enough to swallow earth a wide field picture shows the faint rings around Jupiter as well as two tiny moons against a glittering background of galaxies planetary astronomer Inca de patter at the University of California Berkeley who helped lead the observations says to be honest they didn't expect the images to be this good
Marketplace Tech with Molly Wood
"james webb" Discussed on Marketplace Tech with Molly Wood
"And now for some related links. NASA released more than just images from Webb and will link to some of the charts and data and of course more pictures from the James Webb Space Telescope on our website marketplace tech dot org. Although everyone seems to love the images from web, the project is not without controversy. Scientific American has an article from April, detailing how LGBTQ+ astronomers are pressuring NASA to change the telescope's name. James Webb was NASA's administrator in the 1960s, and his detractors argue there's evidence Webb was involved in persecuting lesbian and gay federal employees before and during his tenure. The peace links to a PDF of more than 300 emails between employees and NASA leadership regarding this debate. Those emails were obtained by the journal nature in March and we'll link to those resources as well. NASA responded to the controversy in September of 2021, saying we have found no evidence at this time that warrants changing the name of the James Webb Space Telescope. I'm Kimberly Adams, and that's marketplace tech. This is 8 p.m.. Welcome to history is us. I'm doctor Eddie S glaude junior. Join me as we journey through history to face the ugly truths at the heart of the American store. Throughout this series, we explore who we are as a nation. Listen to history as us, our creation and presentation of shining city audio, a C 13 originals, and John meech and studio, available now for free, wherever you listen to your podcasts.
Marketplace Tech with Molly Wood
"james webb" Discussed on Marketplace Tech with Molly Wood
"To find out more about what's in these images, we spoke to Nobel laureate Adam Reese, a Professor of astronomy and physics at Johns Hopkins University. I asked him what exactly it is that we're seeing in the first image NASA put out. We're seeing a cluster of galaxies so it's a huge collection of galaxies, almost like a city of galaxies altogether, and they're relatively in the foreground. They're only a mere 6 or 7 billion light years away. And they're combined mass is acting like a giant magnifying lens, but a distorted magnifying lens. Kind of like a funhouse mirror. You know, this is sort of one of the superpowers really of the telescope and of space itself to allow us to learn about what it's composed of. What did it feel like looking at that first set of images on Monday and on Tuesday? To be honest with you, it reminded me of a simulation of how good the images should look. You had to just keep looking and zooming in and going, no, no, no, that's real. No, that's a real image. Because it looks almost like something, you know, you create out of CGI, the universe is so amazing. The first image is like an Emporium of wonders, you know? You could just spend forever just panning and zooming around it and seeing all these crazy shapes and features as we literally watch galaxies evolve and age and turn into their modern counterparts. Explain that a little bit more for me please because a lot of people talk about these images as looking back in time. What does that mean? Right, every time we look out at the universe, we are seeing objects at different distances in the same field of view. But if you look very far away, it takes light a long time to reach us, because even traveling at the speed of light, we're talking about billions of light years of distance. And so when we look at one of these deep images, we are seeing the whole sequence of from early shortly after the Big Bang all the way to the present time and we're seeing objects evolving or changing at different slices in time so that, you know, we really see the whole history of the creation of galaxies. For the most part, we're seeing one object at one stage in its development and then at a different slice and distance or time, we're seeing different objects at maybe in a more advanced stage of development. It's sort of like if you took a core sample of the earth, you know, in one core sample, you might have little bugs and creatures at the top that are the way things are now. And you might still have the fossilized versions of things way far down, except these aren't even fossilized. This is the light still traveling to us from far, far away. So we're seeing those things as they were then. Amazing space and time. So in addition to the beautiful photo that we saw on Monday, what else has NASA released from the James Webb Space Telescope. In the nearby universe, we see emerging of four or 5 galaxies sort of crashing into each other and giving rise to a new round of star formation. We also have a spectrum of the atmosphere of a planet nearby where we can actually see water on the atmosphere of the planet. It's a very hot planet. So it's more like steam, but it's remarkable. This is part of this journey with this new telescope of being able to characterize the compositions of planets around us and look for signatures of life. What's the significance of that discovery? For a long time, there's only been earth and the planets in our solar system. And it's only been in the last two decades. We've come to understand there are planets around other stars, but now this is the next stage of detective work to see what they're made of in this quest to understand, are we alone? Are we in a unique place or are we in a relatively commonplace? What's everything else made out of? And so that is a question that I think people have been curious about ever since they could even think about it. And we're beginning that process, baby steps, but we are beginning that process. What specific technology on the James Webb Space Telescope makes this possible to see the composition of the atmosphere of planets and to look so far back in the past. The primary thing to think about is really in the mirror, which is not one solid mirror, but is 18 of these hexagonal segments that have to unfurl just so in order to see the very distant universe, we need a very quiet telescope and quiet in this case means very cold so that it doesn't emit any of its own light. And of course, nobody can work on the telescope. Nobody can service it. It's too far away. So everything has to work or work from a distance with commands. This telescope is only been out there for the last 6 months, really. What questions are you expecting the images and the data it collects to answer moving forward? What's most amazing about telescopes like these or any time we've had something like this like when Hubble first went up, it's the questions you didn't even know you had or didn't even know to ask that get dressed or caused to be questions by what you see. And so we're really looking forward to the unexpected. What of the images and data that you've seen has struck you the most? Well, it's got to be the deep field. The deep field on top of that cluster, the combined power of the James Webb Space Telescope and nature's natural telescope, this magnifying effect has already shown us these incredibly distant galaxies that are born just shortly after the Big Bang and is allowing us to see sort of how things grew up. And already it's been tremendously exciting. And bear in mind, this is from an observation that took something like 12 hours on the James Webb Space Telescope. So we can't even imagine what it's going to look like when we have weeks or months to stare at one spot. How far back in time and space will be able to see? My goodness. What was your reaction the moment you saw that deep field image? Yeah, I just kept looking at it and thinking like, is this real? How could this be real? And you know, really, at some level, I think the thing that struck me the most was, you know, I grew up like many of us thinking of the sky as a place that was dark at night. With a few exceptions of stars and little blobs of light. And when you can see this deeply and with this kind of resolution, actually you start to see most of the image is actually light. The darkness starts to become the rarity, if you know what I mean. And so it's almost like a completely different conception of the universe as a place that's mostly filled with activity, mostly filled with luminous things, mostly not empty. Wow. So it's changed your view of the universe. Absolutely. Adam Reese is a Professor of astronomy and physics at Johns Hopkins University
AP News Radio
Baby stars, dancing galaxies: NASA shows new cosmic views
"NASA is showing off more images from its powerful new telescope the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope includes the use of the infrared light spectrum For the first time we're seeing brand new stars that were previously completely hidden from our view Amber stron at NASA says there are baby stars a foamy blue and orange view of a dying star We see examples of bubbles and cavities and jets that are being blown out by these newborn stars NASA senior website scientist John Mather a Nobel laureate says the more he looks at these images the more he becomes convinced life exists elsewhere in those thousands of stars and hundreds of galaxies I'm Ed
WTOP
"james webb" Discussed on WTOP
"Our view of the universe has just expanded. Nassau has released the first image from its new space telescope, the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope. The image which was released at a White House event is the farthest humanity has ever seen in both time and distance. WTO space contributor, Greg redfern, joined me earlier tonight to talk about this incredible image. 20 years in the making by 20,000 people with over probably a million man hours of effort folded up into a rocket that traveled 1 million miles on launch day December 25th and is working perfectly as the first image showed. And the best is yet to come. Can you describe that first image for people who haven't had a chance to look at it? Is widely circulating. We even have it up on our site WTO dot com. What are some of the takeaways you get from it? We have imaged this area of the sky before with Hubble Space Telescope. And with James Webb, we are now seeing it brighter, clearer, better detail and farther back in the history of our universe because of the capabilities of James Webb. It is a picture that is the deepest view to date that we've had of our universe and I think we're going to be able to push even further with James Webb. So people see these galaxies, they see these rings and these rings or let's just say arcs. Arcs of light are stretched out galaxies that lie behind this galaxy cluster that we see. And that's the nugget. These arcs are the Hmong, the oldest galaxies we have ever seen. Yeah, what struck me was how busy it looked out there in space. I wanted to ask you, we understand, part of the image is light from not long after the Big Bang, which was 13.8 billion years ago. How are they able to determine that timeline? By studying the universe, we're able to determine how old things are by their chemical composition, what we know about physics and chemistry, the lives of stars and galaxies, and a very, very important quality is we're able to sit there and gauge how far things are away from us by something called the redshift. And all that is is light, ordinary light that has been shifted to deeper red color because of the distance that it is, the light as it travels to us gets shifted to the red, which is where the power of web comes into play because it can discern very, very faint infrared light from 600 million years after the Big Bang, which is what we saw in this image. Okay, final question now. I understand we're going to see more some more images tomorrow. What are we expecting to see tomorrow? We get another set of images at ten 30 a.m. that are going to show a life cycle stars, intergalactic collisions between galaxies. We're going to get the first chemical fingerprint from an exoplanet in an exoplanet. There's 5000. We know of plus that are beyond our solar system. So we're going to see what an atmosphere is made up from a planet far away from us. That is WTO piece, space contributor
Talk Python To Me
"james webb" Discussed on Talk Python To Me
"Maybe tell us a bit about some of the highlights over there. The one that I ran across is just JWST. Which is it describes itself as a python library for science observations from the JWST. Yeah, so this is what we call the science calibration package for JWST. The software that lives here is able to do the detector calibration that we talked about at image combination and everything else that we need to do to create the standard products we've agreed to create for the mission. That's all contained in this package. And this package gets installed in our backend systems to be run as we're processing the data. And it's ready to be processed at this level. So this is what users would install if you wanted to reprocess or do higher level analysis JWST database. You spoke about the reprocessing and the reanalyzing. So you would install this and if you had an idea on how to maybe do different noise reduction or other processing. Exactly. Exactly. Got it. Exactly. We performed some base calibration to put the date in the archive and to make it somewhat usable. But most high level scientists are doing their own recalibration in their tuning the data for what they're trying to get out of it, especially if they're working at the margins of noise and other things where they really have to work with the data to get their science need. So a lot of this is the byproduct of this proposal process because we don't know where the science is. It's going to come through. We try to provide the best generic processing for all the data. Right. It's pretty neat that this is just here on GitHub. That's cool. Yeah, I suspect when Hubble came out, it was not like, well, here's the open-source thing. And here's how you contribute back in the same way, right? I'm sure it's fair to some degree, but the openness of science and the really the computational bits of science over on camera is pretty amazing. It's a lot of fun. I think we started using GitHub when it first came out. We were especially during Hubble using subversion and even older version control systems. CVS or something, dreadfully. RCS, even whatever we could use that. Yeah. They were run on internal systems. And managed on internal web pages. So when GitHub GitHub came out, it was really nice to be able to share our software not only with astronomers in the larger community, but with other missions that we interact with, and to be able to talk to them about how we develop and accept changes in improvements into the software. Yeah. You see right here, there's a 541 issues and 20 PRs that are open, but 3462 that are closed. And that's pretty amazing. Yeah. That's what we do a lot of work. And JWC is a new mission now. Yeah, awesome. That's another thing that I ran across that looks interesting is the web PSF. Which is a simulation tool, right? Maybe tell people about this. So web is obviously the telescope, PSF, or point spread functions. This is the statistical pattern that light fall on the detector from a star would make. And you can predict what that pattern is going to be based on the optics that are in your telescope. And so this piece of software takes that understanding of the optics and the telescope and how light gets transmitted through those objects, including through different wavelengths, and creates simulated images of what we might be able to see. This allows us to not only predict the how the telescope is going to perform a different ways, but develop our software develop our the algorithms that we use to do pull out stars and stuff from images. Yeah, very neat. I suspect that people didn't have access to the telescope and they wanted to play around with some stuff, maybe they could use this. Yeah, they could. There's other simulation tools that are out there that will simulate full astronomical scenes as well. So not just individual stars that galaxies and the combination of the two. Do you have some of you can point people at? I think I'd have to send you a link. We'll put it in the show notes. Okay. So people can get to it. That's great. Let's do that. Yeah, awesome. Another thing I ran across looking at all this stuff is this place called ASTRO Conda. But there's a whole bunch of stuff. Tons of libraries in here. It looks like there's a lot of neat things like, for example, working with the ASDF file format, which I suspect is something that you all provide a lot of. Well, so we developed that format. We wrote that format the primary interpreter is in python. So a little bit of astronomy history, astronomy, for a very long time, has used a file format called fits, flexible image transport system. It started around the time data was being saved on tapes and tape store. You might want to optimize for different things if it's going on tape and SSD. Right. And so it's been in the community a long time, and a lot of the community tools are based on it, accessing it. It was a big part of the other thing in the astronomy community called IRF, which was a common software package. It actually had its own virtual operating system and command line languages that did the reduction for us. One of the things that JWST brought about is we needed to be able to handle those complex optical path descriptions for how the light from a star you're observing gets onto the detector and how you translate those positions back and forth. So where's the telescope pointed? Where is this light as it's moving around and how can I tell.
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Levi Lusko: Hubble Space Telescope as a Spiritual Metaphor
"You like to talk about the Hubble telescope, how do you use that as a spiritual metaphor? It's a great story because the year is 1990 and Hubble has just been launched and they spend a billion and a half dollars on it. A lot of people thought it wasn't worth the money. But they said, no, if we can get this thing out there above the atmosphere, it can see the heavens and broadcast back to earth what it's seeing on obstructed and will have a greater understanding of our solar system and universe. And so they get this thing launched and they fire it up and everyone's sitting at NASA in the first image loads and it's blurry. Second image blurry, third all the images are blurry. It's worthless. It's very good at a lot of things. It just can't see very far because they miss calibrated the primary optical component, making Hubble basically nearsighted. Hubble needed glasses, guys. So what they did was they loaded up the same lens, but with the same problem backwards, and they loaded it up on space shuttle endeavor. They caught Hubble. Now mind you, it's moving 17,000 miles an hour, 366 miles above the earth, and they put the basically they put a contact lens in front of it. And when they fired it up afresh, all the images became crisp, and until James Webb telescope gets launched, presumably in the next 12 months or so, Hubble has been and remains the gold standard in telescopes that have ever reported images back of the deep space field, et cetera, et cetera. The story is cool because it shows us this. When Hubble was looking at the universe and sending blurry images back, the images it was seeing were in 3D. They were beautiful. They were crisp. The problem was the lens. And the lens it was looking through. And I think for a lot of us, when we look at our lives and we look at the pain that we face, we see blurry. And it's not that the things we're looking at are the problem. It's to how we're seeing them that is.
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New space telescope reaches final stop million miles out
"The the the the world's world's world's world's biggest biggest biggest biggest most most most most powerful powerful powerful powerful space space space space telescope telescope telescope telescope arrived arrived arrived arrived at at at at its its its its observation observation observation observation post post post post one one one one million million million million miles miles miles miles from from from from earth earth earth earth the the the James James James Webb Webb Webb space space space telescope telescope telescope lifted lifted lifted off off off last last last month month month the the the mirrors mirrors mirrors on on on the the the ten ten ten billion billion billion dollar dollar dollar observatory observatory observatory still still still must must must be be be aligned aligned aligned before before before science science science observations observations observations can can can begin begin begin in in in June June June Klaus Klaus Klaus pada pada pada Payton Payton Payton with with with the the the space space space telescope telescope telescope science science science institute institute institute says says says this this this telescope telescope telescope could could could answer answer answer a a a lot lot lot of of of questions questions questions are are are we we we alone alone alone in in in the the the universe universe universe where where where we we we come come come from from from where where where do do do we we we go go go to to to the the the universe universe universe is is is so so so huge huge huge need need need think think think that that that out out out there there there somewhere somewhere somewhere there there there will will will be be be life life life but but but we we we don't don't don't know know know we we we have have have to to to build build build large large large instruments instruments instruments to to to tell tell tell astronomy astronomy astronomy professor professor professor David David David Helfand Helfand Helfand at at at Columbia Columbia Columbia University University University says says says the the the James James James Webb Webb Webb telescope telescope telescope is is is different different different than than than the the the Hubble Hubble Hubble telescope telescope telescope the the the James James James Webb Webb Webb telescope telescope telescope is is is optimized optimized optimized to to to see see see in in in the the the infrared infrared infrared part part part of of of the the the spectrum spectrum spectrum which which which gives gives gives us us us a a a whole whole whole different different different set set set of of of information information information about about about the the the universe universe universe the the the telescope telescope telescope will will will also also also scanned scanned scanned for for for possible possible possible signs signs signs of of of life life life I I I met met met Donahue Donahue Donahue
Today, Explained
"james webb" Discussed on Today, Explained
"That still has to go out of town. Each one tells us. This episode is reported by Brian reznick and produced by Meredith Hogan. No I'm hassenfeld wrote the music and edited the episode with help from Jillian weinberger and bird pinkerton. Mandy nuin check the facts and Christian Ayala was on mixing and sound design. Special thanks to Joss fong for sharing audio from her interview with Robert Williams. Joss produced a fantastic video all about the Hubble deep field project in the 90s, which you can find in our newsletter. Lauren Katz heads up our newsletter and Liz Kelly Nelson is the VP of vox audio. You can sign up for our newsletter at Fox dot com slash unexplainable. An email any.
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"james webb" Discussed on Today, Explained
"Explain 20. Excuse me. So in space, can't wait to space going everybody to telescope. My telescope is going to be in space. Unexplainable. We're back, so is Brian. Hey. And we're talking about the upcoming James Webb telescope, and all the unanswered questions it might allow scientists to answer. So, Brian, what's the first unanswered question that scientists are trying to figure out with the web? Is there life another world? You're going to start with me. Yeah. And you know, they're looking for life and not necessarily in our neighborhood. Like on Mars or Venus, although there are searches for life on those planets. But they're looking for life on worlds called exoplanets, which are planets that revolve around stars that are not our sun. So planets in entirely different systems. Yeah, yeah. And scientists in the last decade or so have detected so many of them. There's this exoplanet revolution. But we've detected them with smaller telescopes and it's just hard to know a lot about them. We just can't study them super well, but that's going to change. The web is going to give us a whole new view onto exoplanets. I talked to an astronomer Lisa dang. She's a PhD student at McGill university. And she's been awarded time on the web to study an exoplanet. This is the first telescope proposal that I ever submit that was successful. It made me feel like an astronomer for the first time. What kind of exoplanet is she looking at? This is so rad. I was looking down the list of projects approved for the web. And I just stopped at Lisa's because she's going to study one of the most extreme planets we've ever discovered. I want to use the James Webb space telescope to look at K two one 41 B, the lava planet. A lava planet? Yeah, like when we get outside of our solar system planets can get really weird. It probably looks like hell. So we know this planet is there, but we really don't know much more about it. We had just haven't studied it in detail because we just haven't had a big enough telescope. So I asked Lisa to help me imagine what could be there. Oh, I have so many mental image of what this planet could look like. This planet, the first thing to know about it is it's really close to its star. It's so hot on this planet that you could sustain a temperature that would melt the continent on the planet. Anything on that surface is just the hottest thing you can imagine. So instead of having oceans of water like we have here, we have oceans of lava on this planet. The floor is love. But then there are also could be weirder things. So like, this world isn't like an uninteresting place. The things that I am hoping to look for is maybe clouds on this planet. But they wouldn't be like any clouds you've ever imagined before. Instead of having clouds of water molecule like we have here, these planets would have clouds made of rock. In these clouds, even they're made of rock, they can still float because the particles in them would be small enough. It's probably looking pitch black, like dark black cloud, but depending on the shape of these particles, maybe they could be shy in the air cloud of crystals. And then those clouds, they can do cloud things. We can also have rain from these clouds. It would be raining rock, or maybe silicon. It's truly one of the most extreme places we've discovered in the galaxy. Okay, the lava planet seems really cool and all, but why is the lava planet the place to start if Lisa is trying to search for life? It doesn't exactly seem like a place where they would be life. Yeah, it is a very extreme place if life exists there, which is unlikely. It would be unlike any life that we can think of. But there's a bigger picture reason why she's studying the lava planet. It's because it's the perfect place for her to get really good at atmosphere hunting. Atmosphere hunting? So we don't know whether these planets even have like an atmosphere like we described on earth. But in order to find life, like anywhere, we're pretty sure a planet needs to have an atmosphere. And the lava planet is just this big hot place that glows in infrared really brightly. So it's going to be really visible for the Webb space telescope. So it's just a perfect place to learn how to study atmospheres and other planets and really refine the skills of analyzing them. So looking at a leather planet is kind of like the first target that you want to try with James Webb before you go towards more temperate rocky planets like earth, for example. And how exactly would the web figure out if a planet has an atmosphere? So what I am hoping to do with the James Webb space telescope is basically to observe this planet as it completes a whole orbit. When the planet crosses in front of its star, it will come in between the star and the web telescope. If there's an atmosphere there, that atmosphere will change the quality of light. So the atmosphere would act as a sort of filter. And then from there, Lisa can actually create these whole weather maps of the planet. So she basically going to have to do this one by one point the web at every single planet to see if it has an atmosphere. Hopefully she doesn't have to do that all by herself. She's not alone here. She's not the only scientist studying exoplanets. I spend most of my time not quite staring up at the stars, but trying to reveal their secrets. I talked to this guy, Kevin Stevenson. He's a planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins applied physics lab. It's exciting, right? This is the first step towards answering the question of are we alone? He's also been approved to use the web, and he wants to know if he can predict whether planets have atmospheres or not. Before he even looks at them directly with the web. How would you predict whether a planet would have an atmosphere? So there's actually this really neat pattern that scientists find in our own solar system where they look at our solar system and they catalog all the planetary bodies, the planets, the moons. And they see which ones have atmospheres and which ones don't. And it turns out it's just a function of how big the planets are and how warm they are. So this is a really neat trend that we see in our own solar system, and the question is, does this trend apply to systems outside of our solar system? Is it truly cosmic in nature? There are potentially billions of planets to look at. And if we can just better predict which ones have atmospheres, then we can narrow it down, where like a step further in the direction of answering the huge question, are there other habitable worlds? And where do we go from there? I mean, where do we go from, okay, these planets have atmospheres to is their life on those planets? Once we have confirmed that a planet has an atmosphere, the web can actually detect things in that atmosphere that might be signs of life or clues that the planet is habitable. We can detect water, CO, CO2, methane, you can ask fascinating questions like what created that methane could it be life? If we want to look for a planet that's similar to earth, we would probably want to go out and look for CO2 first. It might sound like small like, oh, analyzing the atmosphere is a different planet. But really, this is going to be our first step to that ultimate question of is there life out there? Is there another earth like world? Is there a place that we could live on or something to live on? There's most certainly life out there. The universe is large, the galaxy is large, there's billions and billions of planets out there. Life has to form. We've seen it form in the strangest places here on earth, right? The question is, will we know that we're seeing life when we make that measurement? There are just so, so many exoplanets, and we just don't know what's possible on these worlds. And the web is giving this this opportunity to really deeply investigate them for the first time to fill in the coloring book of the planets of the galaxy. It's a very complicated universe. I want to know where we fed.
Today, Explained
"james webb" Discussed on Today, Explained
"I had a chance to go a few places like a restaurant and a grocery store, very exciting stuff. The restaurant had a sign on the door saying it was closing early because of pandemic related staff shortages. And while I was shopping, someone came on the loudspeaker at the grocery store and said, they were shutting down due to pandemic related staff shortages. Get to the checkout I'll now, we want you out of here. And as I was checking out I kind of wondered to daily news shows ever shut down early because of pandemic related staff shortages. It turns out they do. Several members of our small but mighty today explain team have come down with this coronavirus you've been hearing about recently. I can't tell you which ones I don't want to violate their hippos. But we need a minute to recover here. Instead of locking up early, we're going to look up to the sky with the help of our friends over at the unexplainable podcast. Back in September, they spent two weeks exploring the science of the most powerful telescope humanity has ever designed. Since then, this telescope has been successfully launched into space and it's on its way to its final destination. It'll get there, this Sunday. It's called the James Webb telescope. You've probably heard about it. Your favorite space person is very thrilled about this news. You'll hear no I'm and Brian from unexplainable talk about the launch of web in the future tense. You'll hear them talk about whether or not it can successfully unfold in space, ignore that stuff, it's all happened, the thing launched on Christmas. It was an interstellar gift to the world. It's since successfully unfolded itself in space. That's not important anymore, but what you will hear then talk about and what is very important is why this telescope is such a game changer for humanity. Pay attention to that. That's the good stuff. Unexplainable ran these two episodes in back to back weeks. We are going to run them and back to back days on our show today, and tomorrow we'll be back in healthy with some fresh today explained for you on Thursday, live long and prosper. Minus ten, go for main engine start. We are go for main engine start. T -6, 5, four, three, two, one, and lift off of the space shuttle discovery with the Hubble Space Telescope window on the universe. This was the picture that NASA managers all over the world were waiting for. Now Hubble Space Telescope is really the clearest pictures ever seen in the history of astronomy. Scientists expect it will revolutionize our understanding of how far we have come. And still have to go. How far we've come. 381 miles above the earth. We see socks, blobs, pillars, bowling in orbit, the Hubble Space Telescope. Each one tells us how far we have come. When the Hubble Space Telescope launched in 1990, it was a gigantic leap forward. Hubble was something that scientists dreamed about having for decades. Reporter Brian Resnick. On earth, you know, we can put telescopes on mountaintops, but space. Putting a telescope in space that's kind of like the ultimate mountain top. And from its orbit around the earth, Hubble revolutionized our understanding of the universe. Hubble taught us that the universe is expanding faster and faster all the time. It helped us determine about how old the universe is, and this is not a small thing. It's just giving us these ridiculously beautiful images. The Orion nebula, the deep field, the pillars of creation. But now, we're on the verge of a new era. This is the future. NASA's James Webb space telescope. The Webb telescope, which is named after a former NASA administrator, is the biggest, most powerful space telescope ever built. It's a grand scientific undertaking, a space telescope, so sensitive, it compare deeper into the cosmos than any previous orbiting observatory. A reporter Brian has been talking about the web since we launched this show. And he's been speaking to tons of astronomers who all have research projects lined up. This is really the reason why I wanted to bring it to the show because this is a machine for answering unanswered questions. I definitely think that we will be a paradigm shifting telescope. We're going right up to the edge of the observable universe. The web represents the culmination of decades, if not centuries of astronomy. We will find things that completely surprise us. It'll give us a view of parts of the universe we've never seen before. Things that fundamentally change the way that we understand the universe. I know I'm hasn't felt, and for the next two weeks on unexplainable, we'll be diving into the question.
The Vergecast
"james webb" Discussed on The Vergecast
"Never launched anything of this complexity ever before. And so yeah, we have experience putting payloads on rockets, but we definitely do not have experience in putting this kind of payload on a rocket. So everything that we've done before it helps, but it's not, it's all a whole new experience. So, of course, there's going to be challenges along the way because putting the most complicated space telescope on top of its rocket is just a completely new experience for us. Is this more or less complicated from a engineering perspective than putting somebody on the moon? Oh. Well, Alex I think the existential thing. Oh, my goodness. I don't know. 'cause I keep hearing that this is the most complex thing we've ever sent. And it's like, maybe we sent three guys. They were emotionally complex. Yeah. I've watched it. He first man, that's like a that's a great question, because once you're in space, the people can potentially fix errors and obviously it's really still very hard, but they can still have some agency over the spacecraft. If something goes wrong with JWST, we have to send signals to it from the ground. That's our only way of fixing it. But then again, it does not need life support systems or food or anything. So I don't know, this is a great question. Something for engineers to debate if you are not me. All right, so this is hopefully happening Christmas Eve, maybe by the time you're listening to this Christmas Day, we'll be looking forward to that. Lauren, the last thing I want to ask you about, you wrote a pretty big piece about the culture. It's SpaceX this week. 5 former employees have spoken out with the culture, but harassment. SpaceX is one of those companies that we just don't hear a lot about internally, but it seems like this was a big deal. There was another essay by one of these employees. Whistleblower site called lioness. It's hard to describe what Linus is, but you can go look at it. Tell us about that story a little bit. Yeah, so one former employee decided who just recently left decided to pin this essay in lioness and the allegations that she made were pretty shocking. And so, you know, we kind of work to find other former employees. Mostly interns, I realized who worked at SpaceX to see if they could kind of corroborate some of her experiences and they definitely did. And yeah, I would just encourage everyone to go read it. It's a rare glimpse inside of SpaceX's culture. And I think the main theme is that they all felt like they themselves experienced inappropriate behavior or they saw other women and non binary individuals experiencing inappropriate behavior. And when it came to whether or not to report it, they all had very different and inconsistent responses from the HR department or their managers, many of which that they did not see as adequate. And they all have their various opinions as to why that is. So I'll leave it to them to explain it. So that piece is on the side. I just really great work and I wanted to call it out before that. Yeah, thank you. So you can go read that and then sometime around Christmas. Lauren will be crewing the verge. It'll be Lauren, Santa, and the James Webb space telescope all together. All right, thanks a lot.
Short Wave
"james webb" Discussed on Short Wave
"You're listening to shortwave. From NPR. Hey everybody, this is Rebecca Ramirez, and here at shortwave, we are incredibly excited about NASA's James Webb space telescope. Now today is Friday, December 17th, and the launch was supposed to be next Wednesday, but it's been delayed. And today, NASA should update us on a timeline. Regardless of when it launches, this telescope will be the most powerful ever put into space. It costs about $10 billion and it should be able to do some really amazing feats like see some of the earliest galaxies in the universe or search the atmospheres of planets beyond our solar system for signs of possible light. All of this is assuming, of course, that it doesn't just blow up on the launch pad. Okay, that's NPR science correspondent nel Greenfield boys with a cheery thought as always, I know. Hey, Rebecca. So now you've been reporting on the James Webb space telescope. How do astronomers feel? I mean, this is a huge moment for science, so are they, you know, as cheery as you are, clearly. I was talking to Neil Reed. He's an astronomer at the space telescope science institute in Baltimore. And I asked him to rank his terror level on a scale of one to ten with ten being maximum terror. And he said, it really varied, but at that moment, 7 and rising. We'll look forward to watching together and terror. All right, I will watch Sarah. He says the future of U.S. astronomy is kind of riding on this thing. It really does need to work. Oh my God, those are really high stakes. And the thing that gets me is that this launch is just the beginning, right? Like things have to go really well afterwards too. Yeah, NASA put out this video called 29 days on edge. You know, basically, once the telescope is in space, this three story tall instrument has to basically unfold itself. It'll unfurl a giant sunshield the size of a tennis court. And to me, the whole thing kind of looks like a giant silver and gold ray gun or something, you've got this gold mirror on top of this silver trampoline kind of thing. It looks like something an evil villain would build and use it to zap a planet or something like that. You know, I recently went to see an exact copy of that sunshield, the one they keep on the ground to help them troubleshoot if anything goes wrong. And I got to say a ray gun is a very apt descriptor. I'm sure you noticed there is a lot that could go wrong with this thing that they might have to troubleshoot. Oh, completely. And so today on the show, we'll talk about that as well as the astonishing stuff astronomers will see if this new telescope works as.
Science Magazine Podcast
"james webb" Discussed on Science Magazine Podcast
"This is the science podcast for November 11th, 2021. I'm Sarah crespi. Each week we share the most interesting news and research, published in science and the sister journals. In December this year, the web telescope will launch into space. This has been 30 years coming. Daniel clary is a staff writer for science. We talk about the excitement surrounding webs launch, and the data that will rain down upon us once it's up there in space. Next we have Greg Owens. He's an assistant Professor of biology at the university of Victoria. His team compared the genomes of short and long lived rockfish species. We talk about the genes linked to those long lifespans. The James Webb space telescope was first conceived of in the late 1980s. And now it's set to launch in December of this year, more than three decades later. After such a long road to launch, the anticipation for what web will bring to astronomy is intense. Daniel clary is a staff writer for science. He wrote about Webb's past and future in this week's issue. Hi Diane. Hi. This has been such a long time coming. I guess we just need to highlight of the hiccups along the way. What were some of the big blacks to getting web launched? I think you just turned out to be much more complicated than the foreshaw at the beginning. They wanted a big mirror, bigger than you could fit inside a rocket fairing. So they had to come up with a mirror that could be folded. And they wanted a telescope that could see in the infrared. So they needed to be able to cool the telescope and its instruments to very low temperatures because in the infrared things glow brightly and that would spoil their view. All of that made it of much more complicated telescope than the Hubble Space Telescope. And that took a long time to develop. You know, development costs money and time. Right, how much was the cost at the end of the day? The telescope itself is about $9 billion. There's a bit of money as well for operating it and the launch and there are certain components that were contributed by the Canadian space agency and the European space agency. So those add to the cost. It's a lot of money for a telescope. Definitely. Launches in December. It's very close to now, but the telescope will actually be ready to capture data for about a month after. What has to happen first? Once it's up in space, it sort of starts to unfurl like a flower. So first of all, solar arrays have to open so that it can power itself. And then it needs to unfold its antennas. And after a while, the telescope has to start unfolding. It's a segmented mirror, but it has two sides which are folded back so that it's tall and thin and can fit inside the rocket. And so those have to swing around and form the mirror properly. And it also has this enormous sun shield, which protects the telescope in the mirror and its instruments from the sun's heat. And that's about the size of a tennis court. And that has to be thin down on the booms. It's quite a lot of processes going on during that month. And they all have to happen faultlessly because unlike Hubble, it's going to be positioned a long way away from earth and it's much too far away to be repaired by astronauts if something goes wrong. A lot of people compare the web telescope to Hubble. What are some of the differences in their capabilities? Apart from the size of the mirror, you know, it's more than 5 times larger the mirror. So it'll just collect more light. So if you're looking at a very faint object, you'll get a much clearer view with the web. The other thing is it's designed to work over a much broader range of wavelengths. Hubble looks mostly invisible light, a little bit of the ultraviolet and a little bit of the infrared, the web is almost entirely in the infrared. It's longer wavelength than we can see with our eyes. But it's a wavelength that are particularly interesting to astronomers. With this giant mirror and the ability to look into the infrared. The web telescope is really poised to look far far back in time. What big questions about the beginning of the universe will tackle? Just being able to see back there is going to enable them to do a ton of things. The father you look the father back in time, you're also looking because late, you know, takes time to get to us. Hubble managed to look much further than people expected. The universe is 13.8 billion years old and Hubble has looked about 400 million years after the Big Bang. So that's yeah, that is pretty far back. That's a long way. But, you know, when Hubble's looking that far back, it's only seeing the very brightest things. So there were a lot of things going on back then that we can't currently see. Firstly, because they're too faint for Hubble to see. And also because the light is red shifted. So because the universe is constantly expanding, any light that's emitted back then gets stretched as it travels along through space to reach us. So things that were emitted in visible light will be deep in the infrared by the time they get to us. And that means that Hubble can't see them. Right, Hubble's presented us with a biased view of the bright things. Yeah, that's it. So it's only seeing the things that back then that are shining brightly in the ultraviolet. So web has been designed from the beginning to be an infrared telescope. Pretty much for that reason because astronomers realized if they wanted to look a long way back in time, they would need to look for things in the infrared because.
Short Wave
"james webb" Discussed on Short Wave
"This message comes from npr. Sponsor wells fargo as a season. Small business owner unique checking that fits your complex individual business needs wells fargo small business checking offers greater efficiency and control over daily finances so you can focus on running your business plus access to advanced online banking tools and local bankers dedicated to understanding your financial. Needs all so you can bank without missing a beat more at wellsfargo dot com wells fargo bank. Na member fdic so now. Let's start with the name. James webb who was he. James webb was an asset administrator. Usually telescopes get named after famous scientists like hobble for example but that was not james webb. He did however help. Establish the apollo program that put people on the moon and he worked in some form at the agency for a long time so he was important to nasa. And how did he become the namesake for this space telescope. another nasa administrator sort of unilaterally made the decision to name it after him years ago recently though. Some researchers have raised questions about this. They believe james. Webb went along with discrimination against gay and lesbian people inside the government in the nineteen fifties and nineteen sixties. You know the so-called lavender scare yes. The lavender scare was when people in the gay and lesbian community. Were let go from government jobs because there were thought to be immoral and national security threat. Right right right. So that's why these researchers are objecting to naming this telescope after james webb. They want it. Renamed to something without all this baggage. I asked nasa about this and they sent me a statement saying quote. Nasa is aware of concerns. That have arisen about james e webb and we are working with historians to examine his role in government unquote So they're doing this kind of internal investigation but they wouldn't tell me the status of it or when it might be done or what was going to happen. Well moving onto the instrument itself whatever. Its name ends up being. i mean. This is a huge telescope that has to be launched into space and travel a million miles. Exactly it's going really far away and the other thing about it. That is unique is that this is a telescope that it's folded up inside the rocket. So it's a foldable telescope. I talked with. Jane rigby at nasa. She's part of the james webb team. What we're doing is going to be hard. We are unfurling telescope. that is bigger than its rocket. And that's not an easy thing to do. She says the whole telescope basically gets crammed inside the rocket. And then once it's out in space it unfolds itself so it's either a transformer or it's origami and hopefully that whole process works because here's the thing there will be no way to repair it right because of what you said it will be a million miles away in space. I mean it's predecessor. Hubbell was closer to earth and got repaired Repeatedly by astronauts. Right right and remember. Hubble didn't even work at first because of a flaw in its mirror that no one had detected or anticipated. So you know. They've tested. James webb extensively on the ground. But it's really an unprecedented telescope. So you know so. I'm looking at a photo of it now. On the ground unfolded and the most prominent feature. Is this big gold. Hexagon looks like a giant yellow honeycomb. That is the telescope's light collecting mirror. And it's made you can see separate smaller hexagons. There's eighteen and all and there are arranged in in that you know honeycomb pattern right and they're in segments so that it can fold up. Yep out in space. The segments will actually act like one giant mirror and for that to happen their positions need to be aligned precisely lake to within one ten thousandth of the thickness of a human hair. So it's got to be precise and these segments are literally covered in gold real goal and that improves the reflection of infrared light. But you know it is a microscopically. Thin layer of gold. The total amount of gold on the whole telescope is like the mass of a golf ball. So you know this isn't super. It's not like we're sending a treasure into space. All in all the mirror is twenty one feet across twenty one feet across. Wow that's big. And how does that size compared to the mirror in the huddlestone scope so the mirror you know is the key part of the telescope. The light catching mirror and this one is substantially bigger than hubble's so james webb has more than six times the light collecting area. And so that means it'll be able to catch much more light from faint distant objects. Jane rigby told me web is so much more sensitive than hubble. You know when we look up at the night sky with our is just looking up at the sky. We see places that looked to us like just blank sky. Just black nothingness. But when hubble looks in same spots in the sky it can see thousands of galaxies. When web looks at it. There will be still far more galaxies that just were too faint or to read for hubble to see. They're just gonna pop out. Wow that just sounds incredible. Okay going back to this funky telescope. It has this big golden mirror right and it seems to be sitting on. What looks like a silver trampoline. What is that now. That's the sun shield. It's the size of a tennis court and it has actually five layers to it. The sun shield is so that the telescope will stay in the shade and stay cold. Scientists want the telescope to be colder than negative three hundred and seventy degrees fahrenheit negative. Three hundred seventy degrees is cold. Why does it have to be so cold. that's so i can better detect infrared light. Infrared is the kind of energy that we feel as heat and you don't want infrared telescope to be warmed because that would mean all the infrared light it wants to capture from interesting stuff out in space would be swamped out by the telescopes own. Warm glow okay. So all of this delicate equipment designed to be crammed into a rocket and then unfurled and operate a d. super low temperatures and be perfectly aligned et cetera et cetera. It all sounds pretty technologically complicated. And i think. I'm starting to guess why it cost billions of dollars. Yeah yeah so. When the telescope was first conceived some of it's necessary technologies hadn't even been invented yet and the entire history of james webb is one of cost overruns and delays a report from the government accountability office earlier. This year noted that since its costs were sort of baseline in two thousand nine. The launch date has been delayed by over seven years and the costs have increased by ninety five percent. Wow i mean it's common for big science projects to go over budget but still some astronomers have been resentful of how much nasr's science budget has gone into this and some people like in congress have tried to kill it over the years but now james webb is a done deal and everyone's just counting down the days to the launch and i would say the astronomy community is just crossing their fingers and hoping it doesn't blow up on the launchpad when the rocket tries to take off seriously. I mean our astronomers truly worried that it will fail. it's definitely a concern for the whole astronomy community. I mean their credibility is online and this is a huge investment for their field. Here's how astronomer. Lisa's story lombardi. Put it to me. it is a worry. I'm sure for every astronomer in the world who's who's paying attention. She isn't even part of the james webb team. She directs a big ground based telescope. So if it gets up there as planned and is perfect. What kind of interesting stuff.
Short Wave
After Years Of Delays, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope To Launch In December
"Science correspondent nell greenfieldboyce with some exciting. Strana me news high now. Hey they're re too so today. We're gonna talk about nasr's next big space telescope. The james webb space telescope. This is a behemoth that is sometimes called the successor of hubble and it will be the biggest most powerful telescope ever put into space. And i here. We finally have launched aid. It's been a long time coming. Indeed indeed it has and now it's supposed to launch on december eighteenth. Hasn't this telescope being in the works for over twenty years. Yeah yeah i i reported on it for. Npr back in two thousand and seven. That's when they built this giant life sized model of the thing and we're bringing around the country. I went to see it when it was set up here in dc down by the white house and all the monuments and to me it looked like this big ray gun that was about to zap the dome off the capitol building description. And that's an unusual. Look for a telescope right. I mean usually space telescopes look like metal tubes but not this one nothing like this has been put out into space before
Unexplainable
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"james webb" Discussed on Unexplainable
"And still have to go how far we hundred eighty one mile above the earth. We see socks gloves. Felix voting in orbit the hobbled telescope which far we have when the hubble space telescope launched in nineteen ninety. It was a gigantic leap forward. Hubbell was something that scientists dreamed about having for decades reporter. Brian resnick on earth. You know we can put telescopes on mountain tops but space Putting telescopes and space as kind of like the ultimate mountaintop and from its orbit around the earth hubble revolutionized our understanding of the universe puddle taught us that the universe is expanding faster and faster all the time it helps us determine about how old the universe is then. This is not a small thing giving us these ridiculously beautiful images. The orion nebula the deep field the pillars of creation. But now we're on the verge of a new era. This is the future nasr's james webb space telescope. The web telescope which is named after a former nasa administrator is the biggest most powerful space telescope ever built. It's grand scientific undertaking space telescope so sensitive it compared deeper into the cosmos than any previous orbiting. Observatory a reporter. Brian's been talking about the web since we launched this show and he's been speaking to tons of astronomers who all have research project lined up. This is really the reason why why to bring it to the show because this is the machine for answering unanswered questions. I definitely think that well will be a paradigm shift telescope. We're going right up to the edge of the observable universe. The web represents the culmination of decades if not centuries of astronomy we will find things that completely surprise us. It'll give us a view of parts of the universe. We've never seen before things. That fundamentally changed the way that we understand the universe. I'm no i'm hassenfeld. And for the next two weeks on unexplainable will be diving into question.
John Batchelor
NASA Has Completed Work on the James Webb Space Telescope
"Do we have left? We got about a minute. Okay. James Webb Telescope has passed its final checks The Hubble replacement, the Hubble replacement, and it's going to soon be shipped through the Panama Canal down to Karura. I'd like you wanna Karoo. Excuse me is it's huge, Is it? Is it fillets? Massive. Oh, I haven't seen it with the mirrors unfurled. I've seen it with the mirrors folded up, but it is Massive. It's going to have a about a 21 Ft Wide Mirror, which is three times almost three times the diameter of the Hubble. And it will be working in infrared, so you can see much further because it can see through Hubble's mostly visible and ultraviolet wavelengths. So an infrared you can see past all the dust and the junk that's out in the deeper parts of the universe. And really start looking back at the very edge of the beginning of time, which is very promising, and it's gonna be parked what they call Earth Sun l two or the Grange to which is a stable point out beyond, uh, Earth's orbit, so it'll be in the Earth's shadow all the time. So between that and the natural cooling, it's got and the artificial quickly and Scott's got sunshades that could pop up hopefully Um, you'll be able to start really answering some of these very basic questions about the beginning of the universe. So exciting, so exciting.
Geek News Central
Missions to Mars, the Moon and Beyond Await Earth in 2021
"He may have been asked to have that. Removed nasa net nasa gets pumped for twenty twenty one with hype video full of moon dreams and mars. Hope nasr's big plans for the year but doing space is still pretty hard. Last year was a big one for space missions. We got We got man missions back to the international space station. After many years of the shuttle being retired it's amazing. How long we relied on the russians. Now we don't have to write them a check but the russians are still lifting astronauts. The iss many most of them are from other countries. Now the space agency released a video previewing hyping. His plans for the new year and the moon is the star of the show. Why are we going back to the moon. Really you know honestly is that. Make any sense for some of you. Don't think we went to the moon begin with i think they ought to land on one of those missions close to a nasa landing site from the early days in. Show us some of that stuff. Did they left while the video. Swallow hope and optimism We know that the space launch system has delays is largely because of coronavirus pandemic parts parts parts and parts and parts and parts. I'm having issues getting some stuff here too that i need because there's no parts the first big test of the orion spacecraft is in the works for twenty twenty one with artists one. But we'll have to wait and see if the unscrewed mission able to launch this year after all and Of course the presser veers roller is set for a landing on mars on february tnt. So we got that to look forward to the twenty one minutes of how or whatever it's called If all goes well mark the start of a long range plan to bring martian rock samples back to earth and of course the much much delayed. James webb space telescope is still on the calendar for an october thirty first launch date. We spent so much money on the james webb space telescope. I just everyone will probably be holding their breath all the way to or visit with this thing and at the same time. The hubble is well you know well at its end of life you know well close to its end of life issues and we got a lot of the hubble is operating in your systems have died and there's no way to go and repair it so I wonder what they're gonna would have to do. If the james webb space telescope had issues once they launched but so
The Moratorium
Episode 136 Mega Movie Monster Mania pt 1 - burst 21
"Let me scroll down here in verify that. That was current. What we got we got amazes monsters Yet, he knows your loan was nineteen, eighty I credit before the love boat and bosom buddies started in nineteen, eighty, nine, I love those and buddies. And Nineteen ninety-two as mazes and monsters. Now he just shows up as. A friend of a friend the the college student. I don't know. He looks really young and yeah he's trying to be nice and Quirky it works he he really does work for him in this film, but he's not a big role right Now, this film I think was totally either. In sync or ripping off Halloween. Okay. What Year did you say this? This is nineteen eighty. So Halloween was seventy eight. but Halloween to was what eighty two I think. But this sounds like the score could have been done by John Carman. Saint something's the scares not so much in the same thing it has the same trope that the woman can't do anything by yourself. this does have James Webb Hornet. Really, young, he's thirty four in this film and he's playing a professor who is banging one of his students guy. I I'm sorry you have to see him that way. Yeah. The student he's banging is Elizabeth Cam and Elizabeth Kemp. Came back to play and the clairvoyant. Who has also directed by the same guy okay. The Director of this film is Armand. Mastroianni and K and Toyo- on the Sandwich. Isn't it? It's a double decker sandwich. Yeah. Is Married to Mary Elizabeth Master Antonio to This guy also directed Cameron's closet Oh that's another. Another way back when for me that was nineteen, eighty eight for Cameron's closet. I remember that I had the Fan Goria that I kind of talked about Cameron's closet and I was so excited to see it. Also get it confused with cellar dweller and I'm not real sure which one is which. I think I got confused with the woman in White Lady and The lady in White Yes lady and I love that mood. Are you talking about the one with Lukas Haas and yes yes. Yes. That was a great movie director also he did. the TV movie for the ring which I clicked on. Not the same guy so don't even. That was Natasha, Kinski and Michael York and a Danielle Steele. Oh my God how? Eighties. Possibly, get. That that's painful. Is Very painful that was actually nineteen, ninety six how really? Got Horrible as why I clicked on it, I was like Oh man really and I no no. No. Thanks unless unless mustaches. Well, let's never yet but he directed like eight episodes of Friday, the thirteenth, the series also tales from the dark side. Music that.
Innovation Now
Mimicking Launch
"NASA is pleased to report. The James Webb Space Telescope has successfully passed another series of critical milestones rock concert next the spacecraft was placed on an electro dynamic vibration table and strongly but precisely shaken mimic all components of the Web Observatory are prepared to handle the brutal mechanical conditions. The telescope may face during launch technicians and engineers yeah now is produced by the National Institute of Aerospace Through collaboration with NASA and is distributed by W HR V.
Morning Edition
Engineers Connect Two Halves of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope for First Time
"The James Webb space telescope is much larger and more powerful than the aging Hubble Space Telescope it consists of two primary parts the telescope part made up of mirrors and detectors that will collect and process light from distant objects and the space craft part that contains guidance and other equipment engineers have been working on these two parts separately now they've been successfully joined together critical steps lie ahead the engineers still must check out the enormous sun shield that is essential for the Webb telescope to operate out of the sun's glare the telescope has had a rocky development process it's billions of dollars over budget and years past its original launch date that date is now set for sometime in twenty twenty one Joe Palca NPR
This Week in Science
James Webb Space Telescope fully assembled in California
"James webb space telescope which is going to be an infrared telescope with a launch date of twenty twenty one which is finally completed. They built it all in. It's all in one piece now. This is this is is really good news. I've been on the the doubter side of whether the james webb telescope is ever going to end up out there but according to news out this week yes. Yes indeed we've built it. The next step will be launching it but once it gets out there these <hes> these researchers also modeled the trappist one system. This is a planet is is a system a red dwarf star which is kind of a planet's yeah yeah. It's got some really close close in planets that they pass in front of their star fairly regularly which would make viewing them pretty easily <hes> pretty easy and they also <hes> they additionally being red dwarf. It's not really bright so it. The brightness of the star doesn't <hes> it. It's not so bright that it outweighs that dimming from the transit transits of the planets that are going around it and so the it's a great system system to model and so they modeled that system in this particular study and showed what they should be looking for on the various planets that are orbiting around the trappist one red dwarf star and how we should be looking for it so modelled it in the near infrared and also <hes> medium <hes> infrared wavelengths to determine how we can look at the planets to figure out whether they have oxygen hydrogen in <hes> nitrogen what is in the atmosphere so
SPACE NEWS POD
NASA Shuts Down Spitzer Space Telescope After 16 Years
"Spitzer space telescope, according to NASA will be decommissioned on January thirtieth of twenty twenty now that is due to the space telescope aging. And this is due to decreased functionality you see Spitzer. It has to rotate two point it's antenna towards the earth to transmit data back to us. And when it does this, it causes its solar panels to turn away from the sun in during. That time the space craft relies on internal solar power in a battery to operate. So every year, that Spitzer has been out there, it's there's solar panels have been tilting further and further away from the sun in scientists at NASA worried that continuing to operate Spitzer would deplete his energy source completely. And if this happens like in the middle of it experiment, they might not be able to retrieve the data that's already on Spitzer, so they need to basically save energy in order to shoot that data back to earth in Spitzer is amazing. Right. So Spitzer was only supposed to last five years in it. Lasted in additional eleven years, in during that time Spitzer gave us some of the most stunning images of Saturn's rings clusters of stars and. A small black hole from a nearby dwarf galaxy amongst a lot of other images. You can check them all out on NASA. It's all free to download free to check out. You can go to NASA dot gov in search for Spitzer or all the Spitzer news and all the everything that's happened with Spitzer throughout its time throughout at sixteen years exoplanets, galaxies everything Nobili stars solar systems. It's all there. Now Spitzer gave us some amazing data some amazing science, but it's going to be replaced by the James Webb space telescope, which is going to launch in twenty twenty one in the James Webb space telescope that J W. It's different than the Spitzer space telescope. It's going to be an L to a second Legrand's point. And it will orbit the sun, one point five million kilometers. It's about a million miles away from the earth
Innovation Now
Milestones for JWST
"Nasa is pleased to report the James Webb space. Telescope has successfully passed another series of critical milestones. As it continues. Its March to the launch pad shoes innovation now, bringing you stories behind the ideas that shave our future to make sure all components of the web observatory are prepared to handle the brutal mechanical conditions. Telescope may face during launch technicians and engineers are intentionally putting it through punishing tests the space craft element and the tennis court size sunshield where the subjects of this. Latest ordeal. Massive speakers were used to bomb Bard web with powerful sound waves one hundred times more intense and four times louder than a rock concert next. The spacecraft was placed on an electrodynamic vibration table and strongly but precisely shaken mimic. Cking launch conditions now with the successful completion of its mechanical environmental testing the spacecraft is one step closer to a launch in twenty twenty one for innovation. Now, I'm Jennifer police have a story idea for innovation now searches on Facebook, and let us now now is produced by the National Institute of aerospace through collaboration with NASA and is distributed by w HR V.
Innovation Now
One Step Closer to Launch
"Nasa is pleased to report the James Webb space. Telescope has successfully passed another series of critical milestones. As it continues. Its March to the launch pad shoes innovation now, bringing you stories behind the ideas that shave our future to make sure all components of the web observatory are prepared to handle the brutal mechanical conditions. Telescope may face during launch technicians and engineers are intentionally putting it through punishing tests the space craft element and the tennis court size sunshield where the subjects of this. Latest ordeal. Massive speakers were used to bomb Bard web with powerful sound waves one hundred times more intense and four times louder than a rock concert next. The spacecraft was placed on an electrodynamic vibration table and strongly but precisely shaken mimic. Cking launch conditions now with the successful completion of its mechanical environmental testing the spacecraft is one step closer to a launch in twenty twenty one for innovation. Now, I'm Jennifer police have a story idea for innovation now searches on Facebook, and let us now now is produced by the National Institute of aerospace through collaboration with NASA and is distributed by w HR V.
Your Weekly Tech Update
NASAs new telescope
"This week. Nasa announced it will create the fear x telescope. It'll look at how our universe has changed, and how common the ingredients of life actually are in the Milky Way. It will collect data on more than three hundred million galaxies in one hundred million Milky Way based stars using optical and near infrared light sphere x will search for water and organic molecules in stellar nurseries. These are areas where stars are born every six months or so the telescope is going to take a step back and look at the entire sky, creating a kind of detailed sky map that will be used to identify targets for future missions like the James Webb space telescope. It will deliver an unprecedented galactic map containing fingerprints. From the first moments in the. A universe's history. And we'll have new clues to one of the greatest mysteries in science. What made the universe expand? So quickly less than a nanosecond after the big bang. The telescope is projected to launch sometime in twenty twenty three.
Science Friday
Golden Eagles, FOX and NASA discussed on Science Friday
"But first Thursday morning to astronauts on route to the international space station had to abort their launch after a booster rocket malfunction. The made an emergency descent back to earth and happy to report both are doing well both landing safely. Rachel feldman. Science editor at popular science is here to bring us up to date on the launch and other selected short subjects in science. Welcome back. Rachel, thanks for having me IRA anything more about what went wrong there. So we know that about two minutes into the launch. There was some kind of booster failure. And they had to undergo what's known. As a ballistic landing ballistics descent, which is so called because usually they make kind of a shallow angle as they come down to create a little bit of lift and take away some of the the the force on on the astronauts during landing, and this is where the rocket is really coming down more like projectile, and this has happened before. But only ever during landings, which of course, appears a lot less dramatic because they were supposed to come back down to the ground in the first place. So this is the first time they've ever had to make such an aborted landing during a launch and the Russian space agency that immediately they would begin investigating so far that that's all we know. While the good news about it. Is that it worked right, right? Right. And again, this is a rare. But the kind of thing that astronauts trained for all the time. So not something that happens a lot. But certainly one of the procedures that they are expected to occasionally encounter. So, you know, not something we want to have happen. But something that is certainly on the roster of things they have learned how to handle well with the Soyuz capsules being the only way for humans to reach the international space station, isn't this now a little bit of a problem. There's no other way to get up there. Right. So there are I believe three so us missions planned that are now kind of up in the air because the Russian species agency again is undertaking this investigation, and so it's possible. Some of those will be put on hold and even if they're not, you know, those two crew members who were counted on who are now on the ground instead of on ISS mean that there's there's probably going to be a gap in staffing. You know, we have. Three people on the space station right now. But they're scheduled to come back in December. Now, they could extend their stay a bit. But the so yes capsule they have up there. That's going to bring them home. I believe it's only it can only stay up there through sometime in January. So that's the longest they'll be able to stay before coming back down. And that means that the species and probably will be uncrowded for some amount of time. Which is something that we know should be possible. There are procedures in place for it. But I don't believe it's ever happened before. Interesting. I'd love to check on whether their experiments up there that method. Yeah. You put on hold or whatever, certainly, you know, every astronaut who goes up has a fully packed schedule of scientific experiments so NASA and the essay and the Russian space agency are certainly going to have to at least a rework schedules. And I know there are a few spacewalks. That are now up in the air so to speak so to speak. And other bad space news, the Hubble has problem this week to right, right? But again, not a totally pessimistic. Message from NASA on that. So the Hubble is twenty eight years old and has done fantastic work. And hopefully still has a lot of years left in it. But it certainly is not a new telescope and the gyroscopes that we use to keep it in position while it looks out and takes all these amazing images of space for us. One of them is malfunctioning it's been glitch in for about a year and the backup that was expected to replace it didn't quite act the way NASA wanted it to. So the telescope basically went to sleep on the fifth of October, which is just to say it's not a collecting new images right now. While NASA tries to workshop the problem. They are optimistic that it's they're going to figure it out. They're going to either get the gyroscope working or figure out a work around. For a way to position it. In. The meantime, they expect it to continue working into the twenty twenties and overlap with its replacement the James Webb space telescope, but what's interesting is that the the big problem is that it was designed to be fixed during shuttle missions, and we don't have a shuttle program anymore. So we're kind of running out of ways to fix the Hubble. So it does have an expiration date now. The detail. Let's move on. Some other news is really interesting, advance and reproductive medicine. If if you're a mouse. Yes. Great great news for mice. The Chinese Academy of science put out a paper showing that they were able to use embryonic stem cells, and gene editing to create mice from same sex parents which has been done before. But they used a slightly different method these this time and while the mice with two dads only lived about forty eight hours, the mice with two moms lived to adulthood and had babies of their own. So it's just kind of like another small step forward in this growing body of work. That's teaching us how mammalian reproduction works and how we might be able to alter it. That is a question about why it worked with the mice with two moms and not the two dads. Yeah. You know, I it's just considered more difficult to do it with two meal, sells it comes down to you. They're they're not quite parallel. I hear it referred to a lot. It's like zipping up the chromosomes, and there are certain genes that while both parents have them they're turned off in males and turned on females and vice versa. And so it's about you know, tweaking sex chromosomes so that they dip together properly. Finally, there's a study tip for students, especially kind of memory tell us about that. Yeah. So this really cool. Font called San's, forget it guy. And it's actually designed to be slightly more difficult to read than than most. It's like kind of tilted and broke in. And it's all about this principle called desirable difficulty, which is a phenomenon in learning where you need something to be difficult enough that it holds your interest. You know, that it doesn't bore the person trying to learn the information, but not so hard that it keeps them from retaining it. So the idea behind this font is that it kind of breaks these traditional design principles. So that it gets your attention and me helps you retain information a little bit better. So there's no published paper on it. Yeah. So he can't quite say how well it works. But it is a really intriguing idea. Always interesting. Have you Rachel? Science editor at popular science. And now it's time to check in on the state of science. This is WWE St Louis. Radio news local science stories of national significance. California's Channel Islands a cluster of aid islands off of the southern California. Coast have been compared to the Galapagos isolated islands with unique ecosystems home to some species found nowhere else and five in the Allens became a national park in the nineteen eighties before that they were home to ranching and farming and home to the shoe much people for thousands of years before that, but a cascade ecological problems threatened, the island's Lance Roscoe, news director here at KCRW is with me now to talk about efforts to protect and preserve the ecology there. And we're good to be with your IRA. So tell us about the logical problems a little bit of a history. This nothing new right? No. It's it's really interesting. It's sort of like CSI for biologists. We had this whole chain reaction of things. But as you mentioned, we had the ranchers moved in and they brought in cattle, sheep, and pigs and other non-nato. Things to the islands. But what happened was after World War Two DDT ended up in the ocean? The DD ended up in fish. Now. The reason this is significant is the bald eagles which are native to the islands. Eat these fish and built up to the point in the bald eagles that whenever they would nest the eggs would crack so they would basically limit sit in the exit would crack and the bald eagles came to the point of extinction. So they brought in the bald eagles for a captive breeding program. So that opens another door golden eagles, which don't live in the islands naturally said. Hey, this looks like a great place to live because our nemesis is gone now. So so golden eagles moved out into the islands. The golden eagles when they moved out there. Started to eat the feral pigs around there. Also, this rare species of FOX it's called the island FOX, it looks like a cat. It's a tiny little FOX, they're cute. They're adorable looking and the island FOX, very curious about people, but the island FOX doesn't have it in their DNA to be on the alert for the golden eagles. So the golden eagles basically started feasting on them push them to the point of extinction. So you had this whole chain-reaction biologists. Looked at this and said, okay, we need to grab what I foxes we have left. We need to bring them in for a captive breeding program to try to save them. And so so you had this whole cascade of events. And so the biologists had to figure out how these things were interrelated, and they started to fix them. And it's fascinating. So what what do you mean, they started to fix them? So what happened was they finally got enough of the bald eagles that they were able to reintroduce them to the islands than the golden eagles move into the islands. They get a trapping program. They relocated them to another part of California and into Nevada as well. And then the island Faulk. Is had gotten to the point where they could re release them onto the islands, and they've just been growing it, Tim Kuhnen who's the National Park Service biologists. I've talked for twenty years about this project. He said maybe in our lifetime. We could see the island FOX recover it happened in less than twenty years. It's remarkable biologists. Around the world, we ended this because humans were able to fix the problem. But wait, there's more there is more because because there's other non native eucalyptus trees, and there's aunts. Specifically Argentine ants which you find on Santa Cruz island. They went in. And they said, okay, we're gonna dust for these ants. We're going to get rid of these ants. But the problem is how do you know that you've gotten rid of all the ants? Okay. I'm sorry. Go ahead. A little Cup about that. Yes. Very very effective to the point that we cannot find any aunts with us in our human abilities. We plow over sixty thousand dollars, right? A plant where we think we did a really good job on the treatment. And we're bringing out this dog to try to verify our results to ensure that we can say, okay, we're done. We did their education. Now, that's Christina buzzer with the nature conservancy. So what they did is this group called working dogs for conservation in Montana train the dog specifically to find Argentine the only dog of its type in the world.