Uploaded December 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Tiny mic, big science!
We’re celebrating Webb’s third launchaversary this month by asking you to pick your favorite image. We thought it was only fair to go first. We asked project scientists for some of NASA’s telescopes to share what makes their favorite Webb images so special.
0:00 White text reads “We asked people who work at Goddard…” on a background of Webb’s first deep field image, with many stars and galaxies.
0:01 White text that reads “What’s your favorite Webb image?” fades on.
0:04 Dr. Giada Arney talks into a tiny mic.
0:05 White text that reads “Habitable Worlds Observatory Interim Project Scientist” fades on.
0:07 Webb’s image of Neptune, a blueish planet against the black of space.
0:17 Dr. Julie McEnery talks into a tiny mic.
0:18 White text that reads “Roman Space Telescope Senior Project Scientist” fades on.
0:21 Pan along a graph labeled “GRB 230307A Kilonova Emission Spectrum” on a black background.
0:38 Dr. Jennifer Wiseman talks into a tiny mic.
0:42 White text that reads “Hubble Space Telescope Senior Project Scientist” fades on.
0:46 An image of two spiral galaxies, appearing to blend where they overlap, rendered in pinks, with orange and blue light.
0:55 Dr. Jane Rigby talks into a tiny mic.
0:58 White text that reads “Webb Space Telescope Senior Project Scientist” fades on.
1:01 A bright red and orange star with long diffraction spikes against a black background of space.
1:06 Back to Jane.
1:10 White text reads “Now it’s your turn…” on a background of Webb’s first deep field image, with many stars and galaxies.
1:11 White text that reads “What’s your favorite Webb image?” fades on. “Your” is red.
#Space #NASA #Galaxy #Spectrum #Star #Planet #Neptune #Webb #Hubble #RomanSpaceTelescope #JWST
Tiny mic, big science!
We’re celebrating Webb’s third launchaversary this month by asking you to pick your favorite image. We thought it was only fair to go first. We asked project scientists for some of NASA’s telescopes to share what makes their favorite Webb images so special.
0:00 White text reads “We asked people who work at Goddard…” on a background of Webb’s first deep field image, with many stars and galaxies.
0:01 White text that reads “What’s your favorite Webb image?” fades on.
0:04 Dr. Giada Arney talks into a tiny mic.
0:05 White text that reads “Habitable Worlds Observatory Interim Project Scientist” fades on.
0:07 Webb’s image of Neptune, a blueish planet against the black of space.
0:17 Dr. Julie McEnery talks into a tiny mic.
0:18 White text that reads “Roman Space Telescope Senior Project Scientist” fades on.
0:21 Pan along a graph labeled “GRB 230307A Kilonova Emission Spectrum” on a black background.
0:38 Dr. Jennifer Wiseman talks into a tiny mic.
0:42 White text that reads “Hubble Space Telescope Senior Project Scientist” fades on.
0:46 An image of two spiral galaxies, appearing to blend where they overlap, rendered in pinks, with orange and blue light.
0:55 Dr. Jane Rigby talks into a tiny mic.
0:58 White text that reads “Webb Space Telescope Senior Project Scientist” fades on.
1:01 A bright red and orange star with long diffraction spikes against a black background of space.
1:06 Back to Jane.
1:10 White text reads “Now it’s your turn…” on a background of Webb’s first deep field image, with many stars and galaxies.
1:11 White text that reads “What’s your favorite Webb image?” fades on. “Your” is red.
#Space #NASA #Galaxy #Spectrum #Star #Planet #Neptune #Webb #Hubble #RomanSpaceTelescope #JWST
![#UnfoldTheUniverse With NASAs James Webb Space Telescope, Part 4
We asked you to show us what you believe the James Webb Space Telescope will reveal through art. Here are just some of submissions we received for our #UnfoldTheUniverse art challenge! Special thanks to all of our participants.
Thanks to intern Taylor Hart for this video!
Artists featured in this video:
(in order of appearance):
Pat Durning
Sanyukta Nishikant Nibandhe
Mark Shultes
Shelina Swastika Kumar
Căluz Luca
Marc Gottlieb
Dolores Watson
Daniela Fino
Juee Naik
Janset Aydogdu
Lanchen Mihalic
Galina Ivanova
Alice Hanslay
Ella Zhou
Greta Slocum
Michael Duncan
Sreshta Velamuri
Charity Woodrum
Lizzeth Ruiz Arroyo
Alice Hanslay
Jedidiah Dore
Erfan Habibpour
Pierre Vuaillet
Mahmood Nabipoor
Katherine Bjelke
David Law and Nora Luetzgendorf
Ava Strancke
Anri Demchenko
Marina Muscan
Poem by Pat Durning
Poem read by Taylor Hart
Eternal Eye
Cold.
Silent.
Alone in the Dark sits
Our Hope of Discovery
Our Fear of not Knowing
*
Calculated, slow Assembly; one piece resting upon another
By the group that builds:
…while paying the mortgage
…taking the kid to school
…caring for a dying parent
…living, Loving
One moment upon the next, dusk till dawn
Work for an eternal glimpse motoring on
*
Test and Twist
Push and Pull for the unknown journey ahead
While safe in the gravity of our planets’ Earthen beds
*
A collective of insights:
…minds for science
…builders
…movers
…testers
…those that oversee
Grouped together for a moment in time to
Test and Twist, Push and Pull
*
Cold Silence
Traveling in the dark
Further away gliding, until commanded to stop
*
Galaxies seen!
Unknowing becomes clear
Cold, silent Space
Our Eternal Eye rests Here
More details: https://go.nasa.gov/unfoldtheuniverse
(Note: our campaign has been extended!)
Our gallery of submissions: https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/features/jwstArt/unfoldTheUniverse.html
Music Credits: Universal Production Music. Luminous, Magnum Opus [ ASCAP ], Chalk Music [ PRS ]
Credits: NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center
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![Social Media Short: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Assembly & Sunshield Deployment
This time-lapse video reveals NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is now a fully assembled observatory, and is accomplishing large-scale deployments and movements that it will perform while in space.
In 2019, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope celebrated the full mechanical [https://go.nasa.gov/2znr2JV] and electrical assembly of the world’s largest, most powerful space science observatory ever built. Meaning that Webb’s two halves have been physically put together and its wiring harnesses and electrical interfaces have been connected.
Following assembly, the Webb team moved on to successfully send deployment and tensioning commands to all five layers of its sunshield [https://go.nasa.gov/2J9pfgM], which is designed to protect the observatorys mirrors and scientific instruments from light and heat, primarily from the Sun.
Ensuring mission success for an observatory of this scale and complexity is a challenging endeavor. All of the telescope’s major components have been tested individually through simulated environments they would encounter during launch, and while orbiting a million miles away from Earth. Now that Webb is fully assembled, it must meet rigorous observatory-level standards. The complete spacecraft reacts and performs differently to testing environments than when its components are tested individually.
“This has been an amazing journey to get here. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is now one complete assembly, and known to be the most powerful space telescope ever created by humankind,” said Mark Voyton, Webb Observatory Integration and Testing, and OTIS Manager at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
This minute-long video was created by NASA Goddard videographers and filmed over a period of time at Northrop Grumman’s clean room in Redondo Beach, California.
Following Webb’s successful sunshield deployment and tensioning test, team members have nearly finished the long process of perfectly folding the sunshield back into its stowed position for flight, which occupies a much smaller space than when it is fully deployed. Then, the observatory will be subjected to comprehensive electrical tests and one more set of mechanical tests that emulate the launch acoustic and vibration environment, followed by one final deployment and stowing cycle on the ground, before its flight into space. The James Webb Space Telescope is scheduled to launch in 2021.
Download this video: https://go.nasa.gov/2I12QkB
Video Credit: NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center
Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET): Technical Support
Michael McClare (KBRwyle): Videographer
Sophia Roberts (AIMM): Videographer
Michael P. Menzel (AIMM): Video Editor Social Media Short: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Assembly & Sunshield Deployment](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/zwC5kgE2Psc/mqdefault.jpg)
