“The James Webb Telescope is the first telescope that will be able to detect the composition of atmospheres of planets around other stars, which is an amazing feat, and it’s something that’s been 20 years in the making.”
Jul 17, 2022, 8:34 AMThe National Aeronautics and Space Administration unveiled a handful of its first images taken by the James Webb Telescope on Monday, and for many scientists, it’s been an astronomical feat.that the findings are just the beginning.
“JWTS is the first telescope that will be able to detect the composition of atmospheres of planets around other stars, which is an amazing feat, and it’s something that’s been 20 years in the making,” Davenport said.The once-in-a-generation kind of mission took two decades to plan but the astronomer said was necessary to learn more about the universe.
“You see all these little galaxies, and they’re all bent. There are little bits of light that are bent, they look like little arcs or little, like little French fries … this is the gravity from a huge clump of galaxies actually bending the light from distant faraway galaxies,” Davenport explained. For those looking to go into sciences and STEM, he said there’s never been a better time to get into astronomy.
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