Webb Telescope – One Year In
—————– (July 19, 2023: this article has been updated. Corrections made – the star-forming region shown by the July 12 Webb image is 390 light years away, not 390 million. In another image, mentioned by Michael McWhinnie, a cloud “being blasted into space” was near a moon by Saturn, not Jupiter). —————- by Garth Meyer The most distant supermassive black hole ever found, a “kilonova” star collision, the first detection of a certain carbon molecule in space. These are subjects of data reported in the past month from the Webb Telescope, built largely by Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, for which on Wednesday marked its one-year anniversary of the release of its first images. NASA celebrated the occasion with a new picture – of a star-forming region 390 light years away. The cloud complex view includes 50 stars about the size of the sun. “We’ve been really happy with how the spacecraft has been performing. It’s been flawless,” said Michael McWhinnie Tuesday at Space Park, factory engineering lead for Northrop Grumman. “In a lot of ways, it’s not surprising.” His favorite images so far are from closer in – of Jupiter – seen by humans before but not in this level of detail. Krystal…
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