The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) most important mission to date has reached a milestone: Capture deep images of the universe. Stars and dust frozen in the first public images from the James Webb Space Telescope.
There is a Dominican in the team He has served since 2014 For the achievement of this historic feat that started with the launch of the device on Christmas Day 2021.
Still excited and proud of the telescope’s observations, Scarlin Hernández spoke to the journalists of Listin Diario about the experience of living from the American space laboratory.
“Like winning a baseball championship, It was incredible, there were so many emotions”, this was the atmosphere at the NASA offices when the entire team was able to see the first image released on July 11 at a ceremony hosted by US President Joe Biden at the White House.
The experience of the participants was a roller coaster of hard work, but a proud one with satisfying results.. In Scarlin’s words the stress is worth it.Because everything seen in the photograph, which collects thousands and thousands of galaxies dating back three billion years, is described by the young woman as “super spectacular”.
“We could see behind the dust and fog With the infrared instrument from the laboratory, see what’s there”, he has a twinkle in his eye, because the accuracy of the most powerful telescope in recent times was twice what was expected for the task.
Hernandez, an aerospace engineer, said she cried when she saw how far they had come. The sentiments reflected in the proud tone of his voice are no less if for almost eight years he has been participating in the entire process by generating codes to command and control the operations of spacecraft systems in orbit.
After months of testing, he was finally with the telescope on December 25, 2021, before going into space. I felt her saying goodbye to the babyOne that allows you to discover everything outside of this planet.
WHO “It’s impossible for us to be alone here,” he believes.This process reiterates that more will be learned about the universe, how stars are born, the evolution of galaxies, the interests of the solar system, and the origin of the universe.
A simple job?
Develop and test the code for the subsystem Work Order ControlAs well as commanding and controlling ship systems operations from the ground through a computer and full spectrum viewing are some of the functions Skarlin performs. Several tests were conducted before introducing the device.
Hernandez, originally from Cebu (Janico municipality in Santiago), is proud to represent this half-island in the Caribbean and exudes humanity. This nation’s potential is both within and “outside” the world.
The roughly $10 billion space observatory is designed to expand on the scientific achievements of the Hubble Space Telescope, launched in 1990.
