NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and the History of Astronomy: How did we get this far?

We were all blown away on July 12, 2022 when NASA released a series of images from its James Webb Space Telescope. But how did we get to the point where we can see galaxies away when just a few hundred years ago it was a mystery that the Earth orbits the sun. In this episode that’s what I am trying to answer. We will start back with over 30k year old evidence of early astronomy and work our way through many of the major accomplishments that build to the modern day.
**There are two times in the episode where I use the term “astrology” instead of “astronomy.” Both of the times, I believe to be generally accurate. Astronomy is the branch of science which deals with celestial objects, space, and the physical universe as a whole. Astrology is the study of the movements and relative positions of celestial bodies interpreted as having an influence on human affairs and the natural world. In the case of the ancient world they seem to have taken on the latter perspective but it’s possible that my interpretation isn’t perfect. I am definitely not referring to zodiac astrology of the 20th and 21st century.**
Resources
First Images from the James Webb Space Telescope
www.nasa.gov/webbfirstimages/
A Solar Orbit
webb.nasa.gov/content/about/o...
Webb Compare
johnedchristensen.github.io/W...
History of Astronomy
abyss.uoregon.edu/~js/ast121/l...
Celestial Fertility Guide
5 FEB 2003BYJOHN BOHANNON
www.science.org/content/artic....
Ice age star map discovered
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/na...
Gregorian Calendar
www.britannica.com/topic/Greg...
Georges Lemaître, Father of the Big Bang
www.amnh.org/learn-teach/curr...
Einstein's theory of general relativity
www.space.com/17661-theory-ge...
Hubble Space Telescope
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubbl...
Mayans accurately predicted solar eclipses hundreds of years in the future
www.denverpost.com/2017/08/17...
The Nebra Sky Disk
www.archaeology.org/issues/33...
History of astronomy
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histo...
Lunar calendar
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar...

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The images released with all the colors aren't how the raw data from JWST actually appears. They use "image manipulatkrs" to "develop" and assign color codes to each of the filters, then manipulate the images. Many of those colors we couldn't see with our eyes, as ohr eyes cant see in infrared and some other other wavelengths. They take a few weeks to go from raw data to released images.

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