This is scientific american's 60-second science. My name is Camilo Garzn.
During a preview event with President Joe Biden, the White House released the first image of the collection.
A new window into the history of our universe was opened six and a half months ago with the launch of the world's most powerful deep-space telescope. Today we are going to see the first light through that window.
Garzn said it was a high-resolution image of a group of distant stars. It was the most detailed image of the universe to date.
On that day, the image was seen to be true, from the big screen in Times Square to trillions of small screens around the world. What if you can't see it?
SMACS-0723 was written byClaire Blome. There is a dark background to space. There are thousands of galaxies in the picture. Shapes and colors can be different. There are different shades of orange. Most stars are blue and can be seen as large as distant galaxies. There is a star above the center. There are eight blue spikes.
Garzn is a description. It's a scientific thing. For the first time, if you were unable to see, you would be able to create a mental image of what other people saw.
When I think about people listening to the text, I want it to be like listening to a book, where you imagine the scene, all the characters in the scene, and in these cases, it might be galaxies and stars as the characters.
The principal science writer is at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, and she's called Garzn.
It is an official way to describe an image to someone who might not be able to see it with their eyes.
Over a billion people on the planet live with vision impairment. According to the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness, that is the case. If many millions of people around the world were following the news, the number of people who couldn't see it was significant. The image is likely heard by many people.
There can be more than just a visual description. It's possible to add context to a graph that isn't clear to everyone, whether you look at it or listen to it. The best way to help is by using the ALT text.
If you can't see the entire image, fill in the gaps.
Margaret Carruthers is a member of the Space Telescope Science institute.
Everyone's perception is not the same A member of the public who does not have an educational background will not be able to see details of the science immediately.
The man is Garzn, and he said that it was the same person as last time.
That's why it's so important that we had a team of people looking at us. We didn't cover everything. Some of the science may need to be removed because it shouldn't be accessible to anyone else.
Both Carruthers and Blome claim that the text is a merging of science and art. No one should be left out of the experience of taking in a new universe.
It's a bit of awe for me, but that's the hook now you're into this. I'll let you know what's here. Being able to describe the star at the center of a planetary Nebula and then describe the scene of gas and dust around it, you know, being able to compare it to fabric or something.
If someone hasn't seen fabric blowing in the wind, they might know the difference between the weights of fabrics. The goal is to give the whole as much as possible by painting a picture with the writing complete. It isn't a one to one, but it is giving someone that same experience.
Garzn is an adaptation and translation that is still communicating and painting a picture. Carruthers concurs.
Carruthers: It's like a translation, you know, one word over another to convey the feeling or the intent of the poem.
The descriptions written for the first images were both accurate and poetic.
One of her favorite books is here.
The frame is split into two parts. The left and right images are of the same wavelength. There are fewer points of light in the mid-IR image. The stars have short spikes. Galaxies and stars can be seen in a range of colors. There are many more points in the near-IR image. There are thousands of stars in this view. They are more distinct than what you can see in the mid-infrared view. There are different shades of orange and white in the universe. The stars appear blue with long spikes. There are arcs around the center of the picture.
Garzn is beautiful
Carruthers read one of hers.
The background is deep blue with scattered points of light of different size and brightness running from left to right through the middle with a jagged line representing a light spectrum. There is a rainbow on the left and right side of the spectrum. There is a semi- transparent coloring. The background of the stars is visible behind. There is a large hexagon with two hexagonal outlines in the middle of a star background and part of the spectrum.
There is an illustration of space with shapes representing objects and materials at different distances and times. There is a large planet with clouds. There are beams of matter coming out of the center of the universe. There are different shapes and sizes ofgalaxies.
Garzn thanks the team from the Space Telescope Science Institute for describing the beautiful images.
I'm Camilo Garzn.
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