James Webb telescope reveals targets for the next year, including moster black holes, exomoons, dark energy -- and more

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By Robert Lea( space.com ) published about 14 hours ago

The beloved James Webb Space Telescope will soon begin working on a fascinating to-do list for 2024 and 2025, including research into black holes, alien moons, dark energy and more.


The Space Telescope Science Institute has announced which astronomy proposals have been selected to be given time with the James Webb Space Telescope over the next two years.

On Thursday (Feb. 29), the organization outlined 253 General Observers (GO) programs that will use humanity's most powerful and sensitive space telescope for a collective 5,500 hours between July 2024 and June 2025. This range is known as Cycle 3 of JWST operations.

Cycle 3 will build upon the previous two years of scientific advancements made by this $10 billion dollar telescope, which began beaming back data in 2022.

Some of the JWST's third-year targets include potential exomoons, or moons that surround exoplanets, exoplanets themselves in conjunction with their atmospheres, supermassive black holes and even distant galaxies that existed during the dawn of time. The JWST will also study large-scale structures in the cosmos to reveal details about the accelerating expansion of the universe and dark energy, the mysterious force that drives such movement.

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https://www.livescience.com/space/space-exploration/james-webb-telescope-reveals-targets-for-the-next-year-including-moster-black-holes-exomoons-dark-energy-and-more.

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1. And there will be incredible images..

and with a little luck, Judi Lynn will bring them here!

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2. Link to latest...

https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/

03/04/2024 : Webb Unlocks Secrets of One of the Most Distant Galaxies Ever Seen ❱

Looking deeply into space and time, two teams using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have studied the exceptionally luminous galaxy GN-z11, which existed when our 13.8 billion-year-old universe was only about 430 million years old.

Initially detected with NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, this galaxy — one of the youngest and most distant ever observed — is so bright that it is challenging scientists to understand why. Now, GN-z11 is giving up some of its secrets.

A team studying GN-z11 with Webb found the first clear evidence that the galaxy is hosting a central, supermassive black hole that is rapidly accreting matter. Their finding makes this the farthest active supermassive black hole spotted to date.
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Look at that - over 13 billion years ago. Always with the old stuff. Big telescope ought to show us the newest and shiniest!