NASA is releasing the FIRST IMAGES from the James Webb Telescope on Tuesday July 12!
We are going to have to switch up our normal meeting day due to this special Image Release Event!
Our July Meeting will be on TUESDAY July 12 at 6pm.
At 6:00 pm NASA is going to have a live expert panel discussion specifically for community organizations to talk about the images. We are signed up to host and watch the 6pm presentation and learn more about the first images from the James Webb Telescope.
We will be live streaming the event in the Planetarium Dome.
This event is earlier than our normal meeting so I hope you can make it.
UPDATE:
These are the targets of which Webb took its first images:
Carina Nebula. The Carina Nebula is one of the largest and brightest nebulae in the sky, located approximately 7,600 light-years away in the southern constellation Carina. Nebulae are stellar nurseries where stars form. The Carina Nebula is home to many massive stars, several times larger than the Sun.
WASP-96 b (spectrum). WASP-96 b is a giant planet outside our solar system, composed mainly of gas. The planet, located nearly 1,150 light-years from Earth, orbits its star every 3.4 days. It has about half the mass of Jupiter, and its discovery was announced in 2014.
Southern Ring Nebula. The Southern Ring, or “Eight-Burst” nebula, is a planetary nebula – an expanding cloud of gas, surrounding a dying star. It is nearly half a light-year in diameter and is located approximately 2,000 light years away from Earth.
Stephan’s Quintet: About 290 million light-years away, Stephan’s Quintet is located in the constellation Pegasus. It is notable for being the first compact galaxy group ever discovered in 1787. Four of the five galaxies within the quintet are locked in a cosmic dance of repeated close encounters.
SMACS 0723: Massive foreground galaxy clusters magnify and distort the light of objects behind them, permitting a deep field view into both the extremely distant and intrinsically faint galaxy populations.
