This segment is about eating your vegetables, well mentally. The vegetables that I'll be dishing out to you are for your own good. It's a dose of getting exposed to something that might be new to most of you, even outside of the usual surf culture. It's ok if you don't like it, but like my mom said,"at least give it a try before next Thanksgiving."
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) sees the universe in light that is invisible to human eyes. This light is called infrared radiation, and we can feel it as heat. Firefighters use infrared cameras to see and rescue people through the smoke in a fire. The James Webb Space Telescope will use its infrared cameras to see through dust in our universe. It's 100 times more powerful than the Hubble space telescope and will keep scientist, philosophers, and dreamers busy 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for the next 40 years (or longer)!
You might be thinking.."That's pretty cool but what's that got to do with surfing?"...
Well I'm glad you asked. JWST has the technology to search distant galaxies for planets that are in livable zones (the same type that matches earth). And wouldn't it be cool if there was another planet out there with perfect surf that we could travel to. Sign me up for that! Image the rises, sunsets, and the uncrowded waves. Maybe the water is a different color like red, green or violet. Maybe there are already surfers out there on distant planets with new technologies and awesome new surf tricks that can be pulled in less atmospheric gravity... Sure would be cool if that was out there and JWST was the tool that connected us to a new leap forward in the galactic world of surfing in this amazing universe.
Below are a few videos that show how JWST is increasing the awesomeness and unlocking more secrets of the universe.. check it out:
Seeing The Universe Like We've Never Seen It Before
Now that the James Webb Space Telescope has released its first images, it’s time for the science programs to begin. We meet 5 scientists who will be using the telescope during its first cycle of operations looking at the earliest galaxies, red giant stars in the disc of Andromeda, star forming regions in the MIlky Way and nearby galaxies, the Trappist-1 exoplanet system, and mysterious icy bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. #JamesWebb #NASA #Space
0:00 - A Giant Leap for Science 1:59 - First full color, science quality images of JWST 8:11 - COSMOS-Web: mapping the earliest structures of the Universe 14:11 - Unearthing the fossilised Andromeda Galaxy 21:49 - Star formation in the Milky Way, Large Magellanic Cloud and Small Magellanic Cloud 26:56 - Trappist-1: checking atmosphere of exoplanet system with multiple earth-like planets in the habitable zone 31:27 - TransNeptunian objects: discovering the composition of icy bodies beyond Neptune
NASA Science Live: Webb’s First Full-Color Images Explained | Never Before Seen View of the Universe (ASL)
You've seen the pictures. What questions do you have? Our experts for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope are ready to handle them in our NASA Science Live, starting at 3 p.m. ET (19:00 UTC) on Wednesday, July 13. Share your Qs with #UnfoldTheUniverse during our livestream. Have questions you want answered in Spanish? Tune in to a live Q&A at 1 p.m. EDT (17:00 UTC) on the NASA en español Facebook, Twitter and YouTube pages: Facebook: https://facebook.com/nasaes Twitter: https://twitter.com/nasa_es YouTube: https://youtube.com/nasaes
