The successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, Webb orbits much deeper in space and is anywhere from a hundred to a million times more sensitive. The James Webb is the result of $13 billion and more than two decades of work. 'About a month ago was the first detection of carbon dioxide in an exoplanet.' 'We've already had a first result,' said Nathalie Oullette. A group at University of Montreal is looking at exoplanets - especially Earth-sized ones with water and other essential elements in their atmosphere that just might host life. 'In that material is where the next generation of stars will be born,' she said.ĭon't forget the planets. On the other end of time, Western University's Els Peeters is looking into the future by studying hot young stars in the constellation Orion and their influence on the interstellar material around them.

'That's what we think these are - the earliest stars.' 'One of the holy grails of astronomy is to find stars that are the first stars to have formed after the Big Bang,' said Ghassan Sarrouh of York University, a co-author of a study on star clusters that's already been published using James Webb data. It's as if they were using a telescope not just to peer into space, but also into time.Ĭanadian scientists are already using spectacular data and images from the recently launched James Webb Space Telescope to look backward into some of the oldest stars ever studied and forward into how new stars and planets are born.

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