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#276 2024-06-01 14:10:27

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Re: James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) - 6.5m mirror, L2 orbit

a question asked

'How can electronics on board JWST survive the low operating temperature while it's difficult to survive lunar nights?'

https://space.stackexchange.com/questio … e-while-it




The Antennae Galaxies (also known as NGC 4038/NGC 4039 or Caldwell 60/Caldwell 61) are a pair of interacting galaxies in the constellation Corvus. They are currently going through a starburst phase, in which the collision of clouds of gas and dust, with entangled magnetic fields, causes rapid star formation. The Antennae Galaxies are undergoing a galactic collision. Located in the NGC 4038 group with five other galaxies, these two galaxies are known as the Antennae Galaxies because the two long tails of stars, gas and dust ejected from the galaxies as a result of the collision resemble an insect's antennae. The nuclei of the two galaxies are joining to become one giant galaxy. Most galaxies probably undergo at least one significant collision in their lifetimes. This is likely the future of our Milky Way when it collides with the Andromeda Galaxy.
https://jwstfeed.com/PostView/FeedPost? … 111_ujdpwd
Data from the James Webb Space Telescope MAST Portal.

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#277 2024-06-03 09:30:24

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Re: James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) - 6.5m mirror, L2 orbit

Webb Finds the Farthest Galaxy Ever Seen (So Far)

https://www.universetoday.com/167194/we … en-so-far/

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#278 2024-06-07 18:00:43

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Re: James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) - 6.5m mirror, L2 orbit

Webb Finds Plethora of Carbon Molecules Around Young Star (MIRI Spectrum)
https://jwstfeed.com/PostView/FeedPost? … 3773808661
The spectrum revealed by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) shows the richest hydrocarbon chemistry seen to date in a protoplanetary disk, consisting of 13 carbon-bearing molecules. This includes the first extrasolar detection of ethane (C2H6). The team also successfully detected ethylene (C2H4), propyne (C3H4), and the methyl radical CH3, for the first time in a protoplanetary disk.
This graphic highlights the detections of ethane (C2H6), methane (CH4), propyne (C3H4), cyanoacetylene (HC3N), and the methyl radical CH3.

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