JWST first results: a revolutionary view of early galaxies

by Dr Paola Santini (INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma)

Wednesday 17 May 2023, 14:30 → 16:30 Europe/Rome

University of L'Aquila

The launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has opened unprecedented discovery space. Its enormous gain in sensitivity (10-1000x) and spatial resolution (3-7x) compared to its predecessors, combined with its infrared wavelength coverage (0.6-28 micron), are leading to revolutionary results. These first months of observations have been incredibly lively and have brought to unexpected findings that are changing our understanding of the galaxy evolution paradigm. 
I will present the JWST mission and review recent JWST results in the field of galaxy evolution, focusing in particular on the earliest and most distant galaxies.