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The Artemis Generation Uses Webb To View The Heart Of Our Galaxy

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
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November 26, 2023
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The Artemis Generation Uses Webb To View The Heart Of Our Galaxy
The NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) instrument on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s reveals a portion of the Milky Way’s dense core in a new light. An estimated 500,000 stars shine in this image of the Sagittarius C (Sgr C) region, along with some as-yet unidentified features. A large region of ionized hydrogen, shown in cyan, contains intriguing needle-like structures that lack any uniform orientation. NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, and S. Crowe (University of Virginia). Download full resolution images for this article from the Space Telescope Science Institute.
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Keith’s note: One of the more profound things generated by the Webb Space Telescope is this view of the center of our galaxy. Contrary to what you’d think, the observation team’s Principal Investigator on this image wasn’t some middle-aged, tenured professor. Instead, he’s an undergrad at UVA. According to a NASA release “There’s never been any infrared data on this region with the level of resolution and sensitivity we get with Webb, so we are seeing lots of features here for the first time,” said the observation team’s principal investigator Samuel Crowe, an undergraduate student at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. “Webb reveals an incredible amount of detail, allowing us to study star formation in this sort of environment in a way that wasn’t possible previously.” The Artemis Generation is making its mark. See “UVA’s Young, Rising Astronomy Star” for more about Samuel Crowe.

Keith Cowing

NASA Watch founder, Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA, Away Teams, Journalist, Space & Astrobiology, Lapsed climber.

One response to “The Artemis Generation Uses Webb To View The Heart Of Our Galaxy”

  1. Richard Brezinski says:
    November 27, 2023 at 2:58 pm
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    Typical NASA. Building a spaceship. Throw it away. Get more money. Build a new one. We did that with shuttle and see how well that worked out. We did it with Apollo.. We’ e done it with every programso far and we’ve seen how well that turned out with stagnant program we can no longer afford.

    But ISS is more like a NASA center, JSC or KSC or MSFC. It was built to be multiple purpose, modular for updating, maintainable. It was built up over decades. It was not designed as a test for the next space station. Future stations likely will not ha e the capabilities, or size or flexibility this one has.

    There is no reason to throw this one away. If there were serious issues the failing components should be replaced.

    Its not that so far the ISS has been used for anything too astounding. It hasn’t. No real significant discoveries so far. But as time goes on and access becomes more affordable, maybe something new can be tried. If you do not have ISS everything becomes more difficult and expensive. If I were NASA I would trim ISS costs to the max so more can be spent on new R&D. But throw ISS away in order to buildso.ethi g new or better? Not a chance.

    ISS, keep it flying.

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