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We have a successful JWST Cycle 1 program that will obtain the deepest spectra of high redshift galaxies with the $10 billion telescope, program 2123: "A Pathfinder for JWST Spectroscopy: Deep High Spectral Resolution Maps of Galaxies over 1<z<6."  We sincerely hope that these data will lead to ground-breaking results on how galaxies evolve over time, and in particular about the complex and violent activities of the era first few generations of galaxies in the Universe.  And we hope the data will also come with some interesting surprises that will challenge our understanding of the physical processes in the nascent Universe.  Our project will be the first to create spectral maps of galaxies using a new technique that we developed.  Here is a are some good introductory video on this general subject areavideos on JWSTand galaxy formation/cosmology.  JHU grad student Alexander de la Vega recently gave a talk summarizing the program.

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