NASA's James Webb Space Telescope First Images Expert Panel

Welcome to this special expert panel featuring James Webb Space Telescope scientists as they explain and breakdown the first five images from the James Webb Space Telescope. Featured speakers:

- Dr. Knicole Colón – Astrophysicist, Deputy Project Scientist for Exoplanet Science, Webb Space Telescope

- Dr. David Law – Associate Astronomer, Space Telescope Science Institute

- Dr. Stefanie Milam – Planetary Scientist and Deputy Project Scientist for Planetary Science, Webb Space Telescope

- Dr. Klaus Pontoppidan – Associate Astronomer and JWST Project Scientist, Space Telescope Science Institute

Moderated by Dr. Quyen Hart – Senior Outreach Scientist and Webb Science Communications Lead, Space Telescope Science Institute

Sign Language Interpreter: Nicolette Velasquez

[quicksailsystembymarri]

Dear team JWST, please in the future, like tomorrow for example, please repeat, please turn subtittles ON, it's easier for foreigners to understand what people say if we can watch the english words and sentences. Thank you. Sorry for my horrible grammar. Best regards

[mortalclown]

The exoplanet hunt thrills me. Not if, but when...:-)

[JIMJAMSC]

Yet we still cannot seem to create a material to fill potholes that last longer than 3 months.
Also the mystery of that one shoe on the side of the road eludes us.

[djentlover]

So happy to hear passionate and excited talking tone from scientists!

[jmsamia]

I like that this vedio's kinda...
I feel proud for this research.
Absolutely fantastic details and update..Thanks a lot for share this vedio with public ..

[Ban]

Why only look for earth-sized planets? Shouldn't you cast a wider net and not be biased?

[virginiatyree]

Thanks for the presentation & to all the members of the teams that made Webb possible. v

[empirestobuild]

Absolutely fantastic details and updates. Very exciting share, thank you.

[lasarith]

Meanwhile about 10 other channels have already show your images, while the official channel takes more then a day to upload the information.

[madredepeque]

Thx for sharing, we were waiting for it 👏👏

[jonobester]

Is it true that what we are seeing is actually video, but happening so slowly that we perceive it as still life photo/s? Can you speed it up? 🙂

[koimaxx]

I'd be interested in follow-ups to these first images -- like how those bunch of galaxies will behave in the next few years or what new star formations we might find in the carina nebula.

[marygreen]

JWST, can you tell how far apart the galaxies in the Stephan's Quintet are

[rockstarxxx]

1. We need more than one. RnD is done. So production of additional ones should be way cheaper.
2. They should duplicate the livestream of what it sees stitched and unstitched in realtime (realtime once recieved on earth that is) So everyone can see, not just a few scientists and let AI and ML have a go at it and check for anomalies in regular space object physics and regular space object shapes.
It should also be possible to extrapolate to see what space could look like realtime. Once we un derstand how new object are formed.
3. There might be more than one origin of the universe.
4. Really hope the JWST can stream video instead of just images.

[mathiasp.]

Superinterresting... thank you for making this possible... 🤙💫🙏💫👍

[stevephilips]

I think NASA could make more of an impact on JWST justification by showing a brief comparison of Hubble to Webb images prior to each image discussion. After a few such comparisons I am certain it would be pretty much the same Hubble image for quite a bunch of Webb images.

[feeberizer]

I did the math. A grain of sand is about 1mm^2. If there are 10, 000 galaxies/mm^2 (conservative) that's about a BILLION galaxies per square foot! I will be looking at the night sky differently from now on. 🤯

[jamesfcarlton]

*Thanks so very much for the presentation.* ❤️ 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[rmsrmsrmsrms]

I just read a 2017 story on how looking at newer Hubble deep fields compared to older ones, the total estimate of galaxies was raised by 10x to a trillion+. Now i'm wondering if they'll do a similar estimate using webb; any plans for that?

[markmonaghan]

Wow fantastic, someone should fund another 1 or 2 copies of JWST, would be a lot cheaper 2nd time .