James Webb Space Telescope Launch Update
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Mr. Biden gave us a sneak peak today
https://www.nasa.gov/webbfirstimages
This first image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date. Known as Webb’s First Deep Field, this image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 is overflowing with detail. Thousands of galaxies – including the faintest objects ever observed in the infrared – have appeared in Webb’s view for the first time. This slice of the vast universe covers a patch of sky approximately the size of a grain of sand held at arm’s length by someone on the ground.
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@Copper said in James Webb Space Telescope Launch Update:
Mr. Biden gave us a sneak peak today
Wow amazing stuff!!
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It's a giant leap forward in resolution and light gathering power.
The level of detail in the small galaxies, and the blatantly obvious gravitational lensing, has me very impressed and excited about what we are going to discover with this telescope.
I mean seeing friggin dust lanes and spiral arms, in galaxies that far away, is just incredible.
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The picture on the right is better.
Billions of dollars better?
I can't say, because I'm sure I don't really understand how to compare them.
They are close enough that I believe they are the same subject.
EDIT: I found this comment, I haven't verified it
The fact that hubble captured better looking deep fields is irrelevant, what matters is that this is the same piece of sky, Webb on the left in 12 hours of exposure, Hubble on the right in weeks of exposure!
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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What is trippy is what we are seeing in that picture is 3 times older than when the Earth was even formed.
So much of it doesn't even exist (as seen) now. It's like we have a live camera that shows us the distant past. Tangent, that would be a cool museum feature...if you had a "live camera" that just ported the user to 1880s new york or something.
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Zoom in here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/52210580092/in/album-72177720300469752/
What an upgrade to Hubble. The amount of detail and number of galaxies in this photograph is incredible.
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@89th said in James Webb Space Telescope Launch Update:
hat is trippy is what we are seeing in that picture is 3 times older than when the Earth was even formed.
It certainly puts the recent rise in inflation into perspective...
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The Borowitz Report: "Marjorie Taylor Greene Accuses James Webb Telescope of Making Other Galaxies Available to Jewish Lasers.
'It’s bad enough that the Rothschilds’ lasers are wreaking havoc on our own solar system,' the Georgia congresswoman told reporters."
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@Copper said in James Webb Space Telescope Launch Update:
This slice of the vast universe covers a patch of sky approximately the size of a grain of sand held at arm’s length by someone on the ground.
Kind of a mess out there, innit?
Stunning, awe-inspiring, beautiful beyond speech.
We humans do some pretty cool things sometimes.
Stealing "communist metric bullshit."
Also a Q for Bach: Whatever became of Tang, anyway?
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@Klaus said in James Webb Space Telescope Launch Update:
@mark how does the JW telescope compare to a good amateur telescope? What does an amateur astronomy photo that includes the parts of the sky we see here look like?
From: https://www.rogergroom.com/projects/hubble-deep-field-south/
An amateur attempt in 2014 of the Hubble Deep Field South
From 1996 The Hubble Deep Field South:
