Potential game changing technologies coming online in 2018

[Michael Mozina]

2018 is shaping up to become a turning point in terms of our understanding of solar physics, as well as astronomy in general. Two major new pieces of equipment are slated to come online that year.

The first major new addition to solar physics observations will come from the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_ ... _Telescope

The telescope was officially named after late Hawaii Senator Daniel K. Inouye in December 2013, while still under construction.[3] On completion around 2018, it will be the world's largest solar telescope.
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The DKIST enclosure will house the solar telescope, capable of observing features on the Sun that are only 30 km across.

Emphasis mine. That's a major leap forward in terms of solar image resolution.

The other major new piece of gear that is slated for launch in 2018 is the James Webb telescope:

http://www.jwst.nasa.gov/

The Webb telescope is about 100 times more sensitive than the Hubble Space Telescope, and unlike Hubble, it's able to see in infrared wavelengths as well. In theory we should be able to see objects from significantly further away, and at a significantly greater redshift than ever before. Nice. I'm predicting that they find fully developed and 'mature' galaxies as far as our new eyes can see.

I'm excited to see what happens to astronomy and solar physics as a result of these new technologies coming online in 2018. These instruments offer the hope of revolutionizing our way of thinking about the sun and the universe itself. These will be very exciting new technologies that should come online in a couple of years. I'm still blown away by the Hubble images, and I can't wait to see images from the James Webb Telescope.

[Tzunamii777]

I'm curious how the first chunks of data are interpreted.
I anticipate many "surprises".

[Michael Mozina]

I'm curious how the first chunks of data are interpreted.
I anticipate many "surprises".

Ya, starting with galaxies for as far as they can see.

The oversimplified concepts of "spacetime" as espoused by LCDM proponents is down right "magical", and nothing like the "real world" of "real empirical physics".

In the "real" world labs, "real" plasma and "real" light produce *real* photon redshift as photon momentum is transferred into the plasma medium over distance and time.

In their "magical"" universe, every photon reaching Earth weaves and dodges it's way around every form of momentum interaction with the dusty plasma medium over *billions* of light years of distance. Only in magical faerie tales could that possibly happen.

The good part of being old is that I can remember the original "predictions" of galaxy formation processes, and how much they have changed over time. I suspect that process of shock and surprise will kick into overdrive as all the "smudges" seen in deep field Hubble images turn out to be "mature" galaxies.