Foreign Succinctly summarize it as you know it's a
search for Origins in so many different ways The James Webb Space Telescope previously
known as the Next Generation Space Telescope Cost 10 billion dollars 30 years and over
1 200 skilled scientists engineers and Technicians from 14 countries to build
and launch Webb's Mission lifetime is To be at least five half years and if it
lasts longer then approximately 10 years To any person with even a slight business Acumen
this may seem like a major gamble at best and a Dangerous squander at worst isn't it we've bet a
lot on a 6 000 kilograms piece of Hardware that is 1.5 million kilometers from Earth and wide open
to any and all sort of threats posed by space Space is not a kind place not even
to a gold-plated Space Telescope In late August 2022 Webb sifted out an object that
on closer inspection was inexplicably massive and Dated back to just 300 million years after the
big bang Bolder than any Galaxy ever seen before These first images of the distant Universe
shocked astronomers around the world Many questions loomed about many
well-established theories were being questioned Scientific American went so far as to State
whether James Webb had broken cosmology Was the discovery of unimaginably distant
galaxies a mirage or a revolution in the making Orbit Beyond the blue why does it matter that's
the ultimate question and the best answer Is probably given by one of the creators of the
James Webb astronomer Garth illingworth who said It's one of the things that I often get asked it's
a lot of money I've often thought about this and I Think the human race has a deep interest in our
Origins we're interested in how we came about How life came about and then you really go well
we're sitting on this little planet how do the Planets form you can take this Origins question
and that's what astronomy is really about web Hubble these things are just Origins machines and
in so many ways we're living in a very divisive Environment and this interest cuts across a lot
of these political and otherwise areas beautifully In 1995 the Hubble Deep Field showed that the
early Universe was even more crowded and exciting Than anyone had expected offering observational
Treasures to the scientific community Yet impressive as Hubble's Deep
Field was astronomers wanted more That's how the James Webb or rather the idea for
a Next Generation Space Telescope was conceived By July 2022 Webb had reached its deep
space destination completed its alignment And commenced its long-awaited
first year of science observations When Webb released its first set of images
it proved that it was worth the wait It showed us the universe like never before
it showed us that the universe as we know it Might be stranger and more complex but it was
the late August discovery of the most distant
Starlight we had ever seen that nearly broke
the internet and cosmology the extraordinary Discovery of glass z13 just weeks into Webb's full
operations was beyond astronomers wildest dreams The cosmic Dawn had now started to look like a
bright Cosmic afternoon full of possibilities And with each new day it seemed claims of yet
another record-breaking earliest known Galaxy Would emerge from one research group or another
in the weeks and months following Webb's findings Of surprisingly mature early galaxies blindsided
theorists and observers alike have been scrambling To explain them could the Bevy of anomalously big
and bright early galaxies be illusionary perhaps Because of flaws in analysis of the telescope's
initial observations if genuine could they somehow Be explained by standard cosmological models or
just maybe were they the first hints that the Universe is stranger and more complex than even
our boldest theories had supposed at stake is our Very understanding of how the orderly Universe
we know emerged from the primordial chaos James Webb's early Revelations could be set to rewrite
the opening chapters of cosmic history which Concern not only distant and far away galaxies but
also our existence here in the familiar Milky Way As light from a very distant Galaxy Travels across
the cosmic Abyss it is stretched by the expansion Of the universe a broadening of wavelengths known
as redshift the higher the redshift value the More stretching the light has experienced and
thus the more distant its source Galaxy will be Redshifts for early galaxies are so high that
their emitted visible light has stretched into Infrared by the time it arrives at our telescopes
meanwhile Hubble's record for the most distant Known Galaxy had been gnz11 spotted in 2015 at
a redshift of 11 thanks to a 2009 upgrade that Enhanced its modest infrared capabilities a
redshift of 11 corresponds to a cosmic age Of about 400 million years appointed the brink
of when Galaxy formation was thought to begin But from the very first glass data Webb
found a candidate for a more distant Galaxy dubbed class z13 at a redshift of 13
some 70 million years farther back in time The researchers relied on redshift estimates
derived from simple brightness based measurements Dear to obtain but less precise than direct
measurements of redshift which require more Dedicated observation time nonetheless the
simplified technique can be accurate and Here it suggested a Galaxy that was unexpectedly
bright and big already bearing a mass of stars of A billion Suns just a few hundred times less than
that of the Milky Way despite our own Galaxy being Billions of years more mature this was beyond
our most optimistic expectations cestamasa Troy An astronomer of the University of California and
the lead on glass in the following days dozens of Galaxy candidates from Sears and glass sprung
into view with estimated redshifts as high as 20 just 180 million years after the big bang some
with dislike structures that were not expected to Manifest so early in Cosmic history another
team meanwhile found evidence for Galaxies The size of our Milky Way at a redshift of 10
less than 500 million years after the big bang
Such Giants emerging so rapidly defies
expectations set by cosmologists standard Model of the universe's evolution even if you
took everything that was available to form Stars and snapped your fingers instantaneously you
still wouldn't be able to get that big that early To understand the Dilemma a brief refresher is
needed in a fraction of a second after the big Bang our universe was an almost inconceivably
hot and dense group of primordial particles Over the next three minutes as the cosmos
expanded and cools the nuclei of helium and Other very light elements began to form fast
forward 400 000 years and the universe was Cold enough for the first set of atoms to appear
when the universe was about 100 million years Old a baby Universe theorists say conditions were
finally right for the emergence of the first Stars These giant Fireballs of mostly hydrogen
and helium were as yet uncontaminated by Heavier elements like modern day stars and thus
possessed significantly different properties Larger and brighter than today's Stars these
first sons coalesced in proto-galaxies clusters Of gas that plunder vast invisible scaffolds
of Dark Matter gravity guided the subsequent Interactions between these proto-galaxies
which eventually merged to form larger galaxies This process of becoming of the
early universe's chaos giving way To the more orderly Cosmos we know today is
thought to have taken about a billion years Webb's discovery of bright galaxies in the
early Cosmos challenges this very model There's concern that some of these galaxies
may be imposters much closer galaxies shrouded In dust that makes them look dimmer and further
away when brightness based measurements are used However follow-up observations of glass LED 13
in August by the Atacama large millimeter array In Chile suggest that is not the case for this
candidate as Alma did not see evidence for large Amounts of dust these results are shocking and
hard to get in our standard model of cosmology And it's probably not a small change it's
one that forces us back to the drawing board The question now is can we believe what we are
seeing is it time to evaluate our understanding Of the dawn of time the Big Bang Theory or
is it too early to break current cosmology As Esa scientist Mark mccorkran said you build
these machines not to confirm the Paradigm but to Break it I suppose what we don't know yet is just
how it will break but then again what do I know Orbit Beyond the blue
