Thai astronomer in first group to discover the farthest galaxy from Earth
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Loading... - Putri Rahman
- 10 Aug 2022
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Dr. Nicha Leethochawalit of NARIT joined the GLASS (Grism Lens-Amplified Survey from Space), a project which is a part of the Early Release Science program, using information released by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
Dr. Nicha said that, before the launch of JWST last year, NASA offered opportunities for astronomers worldwide to propose what they would like the JWST to study either as Principle Investigator or Early Release Science, adding that she chose the latter.
She said that under the Early Release Science program, all the astronomers under involved will have access to information provided by JWST simultaneously.
She described the race, to be the first among astronomers to find the oldest and farthest galaxy and have their research work printed first, as intense, like the a treasure hunt, saying that there was another paper from a researcher at Harvard University which was published on the same day as hers.
