The latest episode of The Oxford Comment explores the detailed images produced by the JWST this year and how they help our understanding of the universe. 🔭
Special guests include Prof. Jonathan Tennyson, Editor-in-Chief of our open access journal RAS Techniques & Instruments, and Claudia Maraston, RAS Fellow and editorial board member of our journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Learn more and listen to the episode here: https://blog.oup.com/2022/11/looking-into-space-how-astronomy-and-astrophysics-are-teaching-us-more-than-ever-before/
On today’s episode of The Oxford Comment, we’re looking at what these recent discoveries mean to our understanding of the universe. Why should we all know about distant galaxies? How will this learning impact us? And what role will artificial intelligence and machine-learning play in the wider astronomy field in the coming years…
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