“I am beyond cloud nine,” the astrophysicist Marcia Rieke said, of the first images from the James Webb telescope. “Now I feel like the young people who worked on this project—they have a bright future in astronomy.”
. Marcia’s team looks at some of the shortest wavelengths that the telescope can perceive, while George’s team looks at some of the longest. There was always a possibility that the highly complex J.W.S.T. would disappoint, or fail altogether. “Now I feel like the young people who worked on this project—they have a bright future in astronomy,” Marcia said.
Rieke was surprised by how moved she was by the beauty of the pictures. “I knew computationally that the diffraction was limited to a micron, that the full width at half maximum was whatever—I knew we’d have pretty pictures,” she said. “I didn’t expect them to be so absolutely stunning. You know, if you start out in life as a ground-based astronomer . . . this is not the level of detail you’re used to being able to see.
A list of the most interesting or unusual galaxies was put together. “And what is interesting depends on who you are,” she said. “Maybe you’re interested in the most distant galaxy. Or the one that shows a black hole.” Then another J.W.S.T.
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