Manuel Olivares and the James Webb Space Telescope: “New questions are opened”

Manuel Olivares and the James Webb Space Telescope: “New questions are opened”

The academic from the Catholic University of Maule (UCM), a specialist in physics, explained the importance of the images released by NASA.
As the dawn of a new era in astronomy, NASA defined the contribution that the James Webb Space Telescope belonging to that institution is delivering in association with the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). , for its acronym in English).
Said instrument allowed to discover a set of cosmic characteristics that have been elusive until now, and that were published this week.
“As always happens every time we have scientific advances in astronomy, more questions arise, rather than find answers,” was the main conclusion reached by the academic of the Catholic University of Maule, Professor Manuel Olivares, who works in the Faculty of Basic Sciences and who has work experience working at the ALMA observatory and the Cerro Paranal observatory as a telescope operator and its instruments.
And it is that these images delivered by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope open up a good possibility for the study of the creation of stars.
“The photos are beautiful, I congratulate everyone who worked on this project that represents a universal milestone, because this telescope is the most powerful we currently have,” explained the teacher, later adding that “it is a new technology, more powerful , which can capture more light, therefore, you can see fainter objects, with better resolution”, he said.
VISUALIZE ASTRONOMICAL PHENOMENA
On the exhibited images, Manuel Olivares explained that they allow visualizing certain astronomical phenomena. “There is an image of a planetary nebula, which allows us to project what the end of the sun will be like in 5 billion more years.”
Then the UCM academic emphasized that this telescope allows studying different wavelengths. “It also has the possibility of taking out spectra, which is an analysis of light and with that you can know what the stars contain chemically,” he said, adding that “among the disclosed material there is a graph of a spectrum of an exoplanet, where they found some traces of water, which makes it very interesting.”
“We were also able to see some distant galaxies, something very interesting, because one of the objectives of this telescope is precisely to study the first galaxies, which are the most distant and can be seen here in certain details,” concluded the physicist, who spoke eager to follow up on the images and information that are shared with people.