“Now I feel like the young people who worked on this project-they have a bright future in astronomy,” Marcia said. There was always a possibility that the highly complex J.W.S.T. 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. scientist for another instrument, the MIRI. Rieke has served as the chief scientist for one of the telescope’s main instruments, the NIRCam her husband, George Rieke, has been the chief U.S. “I am beyond cloud nine,” the astrophysicist Marcia Rieke told me. The sharpness and clarity might make you think of Vermeer-what is being painted is light. The smudgy-pastel feel that previous telescopes delivered is not present.
(Exoplanets are ones not in our solar system.) And they’re very, very pretty. These images carry news about the early universe, the birth and death of stars, the collision of galaxies, and the atmospheres of exoplanets. The level of detail has far surpassed expectations. On July 12th, the first five scientific images taken by the telescope were released to the public. But, of the three hundred and forty-four details that were once listed as things that could go wrong and destroy the whole mission, none has happened. Since its launch, arguably the roughest luck the James Webb Space Telescope has had is hitting a micrometeoroid the size of a grain of sand.
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