NishMath - #nasa

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has peered into the early Universe, observing galaxies from just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang. With its unique infrared sensitivity, JWST allows researchers to examine these ancient galaxies and uncover secrets from the Universe's formative years. The telescope's NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) played a key role in these observations.

An international team of astronomers has identified bright hydrogen emission from a galaxy, JADES-GS-z13-1, at an unexpectedly early time. This distant galaxy, observed just 330 million years after the Big Bang, has a redshift (z) of 13, indicating its age and distance. This discovery challenges existing understanding of how light could have pierced the thick fog of neutral hydrogen that filled space at that time.


References :

• Fraser Cain: JWST was built to see the first galaxies in the Universe coming together just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang.
• www.newscientist.com: Little red dots seen by JWST might be a kind of black hole 'star'
• Brian Koberlein: Images of little red dots seen in several deep-sky surveys of JWST.
• Fraser Cain: This looks like a bizarre irregular galaxy, but it's actually two galaxies separated by billions of light-years, imaged by JWST.

Classification:

• HashTags: #JWST #Space #Science
• Company: NASA
• Target: Research
• Product: Astronomy
• Feature: Observation
• Type: News
• Severity: Medium

NASA's partnership with the private sector achieved a major milestone with the successful lunar landing of Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander. The spacecraft touched down safely early Sunday, marking the first commercial spacecraft to achieve this feat after previous attempts by others resulted in crashes or tip-overs. Blue Ghost is carrying several experiments for NASA as part of a broader initiative to utilize private companies for lunar deliveries in support of the Artemis program. This mission is designed to scout the lunar surface, evaluate the radiation environment, and develop solutions for navigating the challenging lunar dust.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope also achieved a significant accomplishment, completing the largest galactic mosaic of all-time, imaging the full extent of the Andromeda galaxy. This mosaic consists of over 600 overlapping snapshots, creating a 2.5+ billion pixel image filled with a wealth of astronomical data. Furthermore, NASA's Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) is scheduled to launch this week. SPHEREx will map the entire sky four times over two years to uncover insights into the infant universe, the formation of early galaxies, and the location of building blocks of life in the Milky Way.


References :

• NASA Science: Blue Ghost Lands on Moon
• PBS NewsHour - The Latest: Blue Ghost lunar landing highlights NASA’s partnership with the private sector

Classification:

• HashTags: #LunarExploration #SpaceMissions #GalacticMapping
• Company: NASA
• Target: Knowledge
• Product: Hubble
• Feature: Exploration
• Type: Research
• Severity: Medium