Following a preview from NASA yesterday, David W. Brown, author of "The Mission", spoke with Ryan Wrecker on the Marc Cox Morning Show to give his thoughts on the first photo from the James Webb Space Telescope.
"I think anybody who sees that first image of the galaxy cluster (SMACS 723), anybody who looks at it should be able to see...this is just an extraordinary image just bursting with color," Brown said.
"Each of those little beautiful slices of color is, is a galaxy just as real and full and fleshed out and enormous and immense and extraordinary as our own. And so who knows what what things might exist in each of those and that was just sort of an opening salvo," he continued.
James Webb Space Telescope looking at galaxies. This image elements furnished by NASA https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2017/hubble-catches-starbursts-in-a-barred-spiral-galaxy24K-Production
The mirror that the James Webb Space Telescope uses versus Hubble is almost seven times bigger, resulting in a higher resolution. In short, it can see what Hubble and other telescopes cannot.
"In terms of...the ability to focus on hyper detail on these things, we haven't really seen what what James Webb Space Telescope can do just yet," he said.
Listen to the full interview from The Marc Cox Morning Show with guest host Ryan Wrecker at the top of this page.
