https://spacewatch.global/tag/jwst/ AN INDEPENDENT PERSPECTIVE ON SPACE Mon, 20 May 2024 06:00:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://spacewatch.global/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SpaceWatchGlobal-Sign-90x90.png https://spacewatch.global/tag/jwst/ 32 32 https://spacewatch.global/2024/05/webb-detects-most-distant-black-hole-merger-to-date/ Mon, 20 May 2024 06:00:23 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=55253 An international team of astronomers has used the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to find evidence for an ongoing merger of two galaxies and their massive black holes when the Universe was only 740 million years old. This marks the most distant detection of a black hole merger and the first time researchers have detected this phenomenon so early in the Universe.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2023/01/scottish-space-industry-experts-form-advisory-committee/ Fri, 20 Jan 2023 07:00:01 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=46124 A group of Scottish global space industry experts have formed a committee, the Scotland International Space Advisory Committee (SISAC), consisting of members of the Scottish Government’s GlobalScot program. GlobalScots are Scots around the world voluntarily providing expertise to identify opportunities to achieve a £4 billion (US $5 billion) share of the global space market.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2023/01/james-webb-space-telescope-confirms-its-first-exoplanet/ Fri, 13 Jan 2023 07:00:07 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=45971 Researchers have confirmed the presence of an exoplanet, a planet that orbits another star, using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope for the first time. Formally classified as LHS 475 b, the planet is almost exactly the same size as Earth, clocking in at 99% of Earth’s diameter.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2022/08/space-cafe-webtalk-33-minutes-with-prof-dr-kai-uwe-schrogl-europes-space-ambitions-whats-up-during-this-autumn-recap/ Sun, 28 Aug 2022 14:00:11 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=42951 Our Space Café WebTalk “33 minutes with Prof. Dr. Kai-Uwe Schrogl - Europe’s Space Ambitions – what’s up during this autumn?” Took place on Tuesday, 16th August, ending our 7-week summer break. Kai-Uwe is the Special Advisor for Political Affairs at the European Space Agency (ESA) at its Headquarters in Paris.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2022/08/james-webb-space-telescope-sees-jupiter-in-new-light/ Wed, 24 Aug 2022 06:00:29 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=42884 NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured new images of our Solar System’s biggest planet, Jupiter, showing fine details along with its rings, satellites, and even galaxies in one image, giving scientists more information on the planet’s inner processes.  ]]> https://spacewatch.global/2022/07/jwst-delivers-deepest-infrared-image-of-universe-to-date/ Tue, 12 Jul 2022 06:00:16 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=42068 NASA has published the James Webb Space Telescope’s deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant Universe so far, known as Webb’s First Deep Field, an image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723. The image contains thousands of galaxies, including the faintest objects ever observed in the infrared part of the spectrum.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2022/06/james-webb-mirror-segment-hit-by-micrometeoroid/ Fri, 10 Jun 2022 06:00:04 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=41449 A micrometeoroid, the size of a dust grain, slammed into one of the James Webb Space Telescope’s 18 primary mirror segments at high speed, causing a noticeable effect on its performance, NASA said. This was the fifth impact detected since Webb’s launch five and a half months ago.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2022/05/webbs-nirspec-and-miri-to-unveil-history-of-universe/ Tue, 10 May 2022 06:00:50 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=40873 The Near Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec), a key instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) has successfully passed all its functional tests including subsystems and mechanisms, Airbus said. The NIRSpec commissioning team, including experts from Airbus, performed the required tests as Webb continues cooling down to cryogenic temperatures.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2022/02/nasa-publishes-first-images-of-jwst-progress/ Tue, 15 Feb 2022 07:00:07 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=39211 The first set of images taken by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) shows that the spacecraft’s primary mirror is performing as expected as it initiated its seven-step alignment process of 18 individual mirror segments. The mirror segments need to work together as a single optical surface to produce high-precision images.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2022/01/jwst-all-deployments-complete/ Mon, 10 Jan 2022 07:00:31 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=38473 The James Webb Space Telescope team successfully deployed the telescope’s 6.4-metre long gold-coated primary mirror, completing the final stage of deployments. Science operations are due to start this summer. The two wings of Webb’s primary mirror had to folded to fit inside Ariane 5’s fairing.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2021/12/space-cafe-radio-top-10-most-important-events-in-space-in-2021/ Fri, 31 Dec 2021 09:00:39 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=38220 In this Space Café Radio – TOP-10 MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS IN SPACE IN 2021, contributing editor Dr. Emma Gatti talks about her thoughts on the previous year. 2021 has been an intense year for the Space sector. From breakthrough scientific achievements to thorny diplomatic accidents, the industry seems almost to be not keeping pace with itself.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2021/12/jwst-crosses-moons-orbit-after-course-correction-burn/ Wed, 29 Dec 2021 07:00:08 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=38183 The US $10B space observatory has flown beyond the orbit of the Moon after completing the second of the three required mid-course correction burns, NASA reported. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launched on Christmas Day to begin its 29-day deployment process. About half an hour later, it automatically deployed its solar panel to start generating its own power.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2021/12/the-space-cafe-podcast-045-special-peter-rumler-esa-launching-james-webb-space-telescope/ Tue, 28 Dec 2021 09:00:01 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=38169 SpaceWatch.Global is pleased to present the 45th episode, a special, in our podcast series Space Cafe Podcast#045 Special: Peter Rumler, ESA, Launching James Webb Space Telescope. Episode 045 features a special guest Peter Rumler. Anyone who takes time for an interview just 40 minutes before the launch of the largest telescope of all time has a lot of nerve.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2021/12/ariane-5-launches-webb-on-its-journey-1-5-million-km-away/ Sat, 25 Dec 2021 13:00:05 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=38118&preview=true&preview_id=38118 Ariane 5 has launched the giant James Webb Telescope into its transfer orbit. The Ariane 5 rocket lifted off from the Guiana Space Center, Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on Christmas day, and the telescope separated successfully at an altitude of close to 1500 kilometers 27 minutes into the flight.]]>