David Butler | How Far Away Is It - 2024 Review
2024 was another big year for Webb and Hubble as they and others continue to find new galaxies and more about galaxies and stars that we’ve seen before. We’ll start with our last look at DART in our solar system.
2025-01-16 02:00:00 - David Butler
We’ll cover new information on famous Milky Way celestial objects like the Horsehead, Little Dumbbell, and the Crab nebulae. Moving out to galaxies orbiting ours, we’ll cover a super nova and brown dwarfs. Further out into our Local group, we’ll take a closer look at Triangulum.
We’ll cover new information on galaxies tens of millions of light years away including the Cigar, Sombrero, Penguin, and others.
We’ll also see a protocluster, supernova, and black hole merger billions of lightyears away. And we’ll see two galaxies that formed near the end of the Dark Ages; Firefly Sparkel.
We’ll end with coverage of Webb's first 2024 release. It showcases near- and mid-infrared portraits of 19 face-on spiral galaxies in the Virgo Supercluster.