Tag: Space Telescope Science Institute

  • Highlights: First Images from the James Webb Space Telescope (Official NASA Video)

    Highlights: First Images from the James Webb Space Telescope (Official NASA Video)

    NASA revealed the first five full-color images and spectrographic data from the world’s most powerful space telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, a partnership with ESA (European Space Agency), and CSA (Canadian Space Agency). The world got its first look at the full capabilities of the mission at a live event streamed from the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, on July 12, 2022.

    The event showcased these targets:
    – Carina Nebula: A landscape speckled with glittering stars and cosmic cliffs
    – Stephan’s Quintet: An enormous mosaic with a visual grouping of five galaxies
    – Southern Ring Nebula: A nebula with rings of gas and dust for thousands of years in all directions
    – WASP 96-b: A distinct signature of water in the atmosphere of an exoplanet orbiting a distant Sun-like star
    – SMACS 0723: The deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date

    The full set of the telescope’s first full-color images and spectroscopic data are available at: https://nasa.gov/webbfirstimages

    Full-resolution images can be downloaded at: https://webbtelescope.org

    Credit: NASA

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    https://images.nasa.gov/details-First%20Images%20from%20the%20James%20Webb%20Space%20Telescope%20(Official%20NASA%20Highlights)

    Production Credit:
    Producer/Editor: Amy Leniarthtt

  • NASA Hispanic Heritage Month Employee Profile – Scarlin Hernandez – JWST Spacecraft Engineer (STScI)

    NASA Hispanic Heritage Month Employee Profile – Scarlin Hernandez – JWST Spacecraft Engineer (STScI)

    Scarlin Hernandez is a Spacecraft Engineer for the James Webb Space Telescope at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, MD.  She tests and verifies the ground systems that will be used to command and control the telescope once it’s in space. The telescope will be used to discover new planets and the first stars after the dark ages.  The National Science Foundation awarded her a full college scholarship to the Capitol Technology University (CTU) in Laurel, MD.  Scarlin completed a internship at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, and by the age of 20, she was part of the ground control system team for the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite.  In 2013, she earned a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, but she found her real niche in Astronautical Engineering.  After graduation, Scarlin was the mission planning lead for the TRMM mission before transferring to work on the James Webb Space Telescope mission.