Yeah.
We're seeing a sample of the amazing science
that Webb will be able to do over the coming years.
And remember, it's just a sample.
So we are seeing scenes and vistas from across the universe,
you know, toward the first galaxies
to stellar birth and stellar death.
And we're seeing an exoplanet spectrum for the first time with Webb
showing water or steam in its atmosphere.
So here,
what we're seeing in this deep field image, Webb's first deep field
is a massive cluster of galaxies.
And what this cluster does is it bends the light
from even more distant galaxies coming behind it.
And you can see that as it's sort of banana streaks in the in the field.
And this field allows us to look for some of the very first
luminous structures in the universe, the first stars and galaxies.
And this was one of the reasons that Webb was originally
built.
So with the Southern Ring Nebula, the image here,
what you see is a star that is similar to our own sun.
But 5 billion years in the future, when it dies.
And so when stars like that die, they push off the the outer atmospheres.
And these this gas cloud you see is filled with elements
like carbon and oxygen, kind of elements that we're made of.
And this is how dying stars seed the galaxy with these elements
that ultimately are important for the formation of life.
So here we are seeing a small group of galaxies
that what we call interact actually colliding with each other.
And this is a very fundamental part in the evolution of galaxies.
They bump into each other all the time, and when they bump into each other,
they create shockwaves.
And in these shockwaves, you have this tremendous formation of new stars.
And you see these shockwaves in this image
and you see the formation of stars there.
You also see the galaxies
superimposed in this field of distant galaxies in the background, whose light
has probably traveled through the universe for billions of years.
And so this is very typical for web images that everywhere we look,
we're going to have these distant galaxies in the background.
Oh, yeah.
This is such a beautiful image. And maybe my favorite.
What we see here is a stellar nursery,
a cloud of gas and dust that is actively forming new stars.
And you see this as sort of a landscape that looks like mountains
because the cloud is being eroded away by hot stars that's off the field to the top.
And they're there, they're cooking off the cloud.
And as they do that, they push on it.
And so what that means is that you can form
new stars sort of close to the surface of the cloud there.
And you can see those stars popping out and you can see them also create
jets and outflows as part of this process
that that that move through the cloud and create these streaky structures
in it.
So what we see here is what's called a hot Jupiter.
So it's a it's a planet that moves in front of its star.
And it has about the size of Jupiter, but the mass of Saturn.
And what
we see here is light filtering through its atmosphere.
And that allows us to look for the fingerprints of certain molecules.
And in this case, the planet is full of water vapor, full of water.
And that's what you see is wiggles in the spectrum
when we go and look at other exoplanets with Webb.
We may look for other molecules, some that are familiar in our own atmosphere
as well, like carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, or maybe even methane
and ozone.
So infrared light is light that is redder than what our own eyes can see.
And what that means is that we can see things that you just cannot see
with a telescope that works at visible wavelengths like the Hubble, for example.
So what was originally built to see very distant galaxies, because they, they,
they, we see the light from them primarily in the infrared.
The infrared light can also penetrate
through clouds of dust so we can see what goes on inside them.
Like, for example, the formation of new stars and new planets.
There.
Yeah.
So these first images is really only scratching the surface
of what Webb can do.
We did this in essentially three days.
So we have many years of observations to go.
And one of the some of the things that we will see is
scientists pushed to larger distances
in universe to really try and find those very first galaxies and stars.
And we will also be able to look at a new planet of planets
around other stars that are smaller than the one
we see here, that are more Earth-like that may have a rocky surface.
And we can look for whether those planets have weather on them
or volcanoes or oceans.
Yeah.
So what I, I'm really looking forward to learning more about is,
is to find those, those first galaxies to see if we can actually do that.
It's a completely unexplored region of the universe up until now.
I'm also very curious to see
the exoplanets planets around a system called TRAPPIST one.
This is this is how small star m dwarf star that has seven planets around it.
And we think three of them are actually in the distance from the star
where they may have liquid water on the surface.
But what we don't know about them is if they have atmospheres.
And so already in the first year, we will ask this very simple.
Yes, no question. Do these planets have atmospheres?
Because if the answer is yes,
this type of planet around m two of stars may be
one of the most common places that we can find life in the universe.
So you can learn more about the Webb telescope
by going to database t the nasa.gov or NASA web on social media.