The data from Webb found the telltale signature of large organic molecules akin to smog and smoke -building blocks of the same cancer-causing hydrocarbon emissions on Earth that are key contributors to atmospheric pollution. “That level of magnification is actually what made us interested in looking at this galaxy with Webb in the first place, because it really lets us see all the rich details of what makes up a galaxy in the early universe that we could never do otherwise.” and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy. “By combining Webb’s amazing capabilities with a natural ‘cosmic magnifying glass,’ we were able to see even more detail than we otherwise could,” said Spilker, an assistant professor in the Texas A&M Department of Physics and Astronomy and a member of the George P. The light from the background galaxy is stretched and magnified by the foreground galaxy into a ring-like shape, known as an Einstein ring. Lensing, originally predicted by Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity, happens when two galaxies are almost perfectly aligned from our point of view on Earth. Spilker notes the discovery, reported this week in the journal Nature, was made possible through the combined powers of Webb and fate, with a little help from a phenomenon called gravitational lensing. The galaxy was first discovered by the National Science Foundation’s South Pole Telescope in 2013 and has since been studied by many observatories, including the radio telescope ALMA and the Hubble Space Telescope. Because of its extreme distance, the light detected by the astronomers began its journey when the universe was less than 1.5 billion years old - about 10% of its current age. Using the Webb telescope, Texas A&M University astronomer Justin Spilker and collaborators found the organic molecules in a galaxy more than 12 billion light-years away. At least for galaxies, the new findings cast doubt on the old adage that where there’s smoke, there’s fire. The discovery of the molecules, which are familiar on Earth in smoke, soot and smog, demonstrates the power of Webb to help understand the complex chemistry that goes hand-in-hand with the birth of new stars even in the earliest periods of the universe’s history. The HUD display is not visible on the mock-ups, although it would be present in the flight vehicle.An international team of astronomers has detected complex organic molecules in the most distant galaxy to date using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. For each astronaut there's also a "multi-funcion keyboard". The center console features a "flight management panel" at the center and 6 CRT displays that work as a glass cockpit. In version "b" there's a third stick near the engine controls on the middle console. There are duplicate control joysticks for both astronauts. These versions have a similar general layout. This way they are grouped all together in a single place for the convenience, so that the general layout can be understood and the different mock-ups / simulator versions can be sorted out. I'm taking the liberty of posting the all the images I could find on the web of the Hermes interior, cockpit and instrument panels. Because the project was developed in the 1980's there aren't many reference photos on the web. The spacecraft was intended to serve two proposed European space stations: the Man Tended Free-Flyer / Columbus Space Station and the Polar Platform.īefore cancellation, some mock-ups and trainers were built. The ESA Hermes space shuttle project ran from 1975 to 1992, after an original proposal from the French CNES (National Space Studies Center).
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