{"id":4838,"date":"2022-07-06T18:59:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T18:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/?p=4838"},"modified":"2024-07-09T18:59:51","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T18:59:51","slug":"first-images-from-jwst-expected-to-spotlight-wonders-of-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/2022\/Q3\/first-images-from-jwst-expected-to-spotlight-wonders-of-the-universe","title":{"rendered":"First images from JWST expected to spotlight wonders of the universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"purdue-initial-words-wrap\"><p class=\"purdue-initial-words wp-block-paragraph\">WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. &mdash;<\/p> \n<p>A new view of the stars, a deeper look into time and some of the most beautiful, staggering and breathtaking sights ever seen by human eyes: That\u2019s what the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) promises to deliver when it releases its first handful of images on Tuesday (July 12). As he has been from the beginning, astronomer&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/physics.purdue.edu\/people\/faculty\/dmilisav.php\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Danny Milisavljevic<\/a>&nbsp;will be there to see them, to explain them and to anticipate dazzling new scientific discoveries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An assistant professor of&nbsp;physics and astronomy&nbsp;in Purdue University\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/science\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">College of Science<\/a>, Milisavljevic (pronounced milli-sahv-la-vich) is helping bring details from the world\u2019s newest and most powerful telescope: the JWST, the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, which allowed humans to see farther into space and deeper into time. After launching in late December and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/webb.nasa.gov\/content\/webbLaunch\/whereIsWebb.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reaching its orbit in January<\/a>, the JWST has been&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nasa.gov\/webb\/2022\/01\/31\/following-webbs-arrival-at-l2-telescope-commissioning-set-to-begin\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">calibrating its instruments<\/a>&nbsp;and preparing for its role as humanity\u2019s longest-sighted eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/releases\/2022\/Q3\/purdue-astronomer-speechless-in-the-face-of-new-images-from-space-telescope.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">An updated version of this story, including information about the first images, can be found on the Purdue University News Service website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. &mdash; A new view of the stars, a deeper look into time and some of the most beautiful, staggering and breathtaking sights ever seen by human eyes: That\u2019s what the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) promises to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,7],"tags":[],"department":[58,32],"source":[29],"purdue_today_topic":[66],"coauthors":[10],"class_list":["post-4838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-research-excellence","department-purdue-moves","department-science","source-purdue-news","purdue_today_topic-research"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4840,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4838\/revisions\/4840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4838"},{"taxonomy":"department","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/department?post=4838"},{"taxonomy":"source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/source?post=4838"},{"taxonomy":"purdue_today_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/purdue_today_topic?post=4838"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}