The first set of science images from the James Webb Space Telescope revealed marvellous stars and galaxies. Space reporter Leah Crane (DownHereOnEarth) answers all your questions about them
Incredibly clear images of the Carina Nebula, the Eight-Burst Nebula, a galaxy cluster called Stephan’s Quintet and an exoplanet named WASP-96b make up the first set of science data from JWST
With the data and imagery collected, is it possible that scientists will revise the currently accepted age of the universe to be much much older than a mere 13.7 billion years?based on new measurements of its expansion, but if so, it will probably go down rather than up.I don’t think there was anything particularly shocking in the data that’s come down so far. The images are all of systems that are already very well studied, but we just have far more detail now than ever before.
Why did the JWST crew choose WASP-96b as the first exoplanet to analyse the composition of? What was special about it?is that it isn’t cloudy – the new spectrum shows some evidence of clouds and haze, but not much. That’s good because it allows the starlight to shine right through the atmosphere and for us to analyse it without being blocked by lots of clouds.The first year of science has actually already been planned out.
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