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That video could have sent us the information about 10x faster than it did 🙁
but still good to know
Check out the alignment images!
https://twitter.com/NASAWebb/status/1504121946056888322?s=20&t=QzZZXu7Av-Gluf2lMOuB4A
So cool.
Ooh it's getting close.
I read an article about it earlier this evening, with a large version of that photo, and it’s stunning, the galaxies that can be seen in the background, and the crispness of the ‘starburst’ effect of the target star just beautiful.
Why is there a starburts effect? I thought they were caused by the diaphragm of a conventional lens. I don't understand what causes this?
It looks beautiful, so I don't care. 🙂
Ooooh, hello. Focus/image phase all good, onto other instruments.
I bloody love science like this.
https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-alignment-complete
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July 12th, my birthday.
I have to say, I'm rather excited to see the images in a couple of days time...
Yes, can't wait. Some of the images from Hubble have been amazing but this should be another level...
Not that I’m in any way envious, but my wife has been invited to view these first Webb images at the local planetarium on Wednesday morning!
Not that I am in any way proud but my brother in law and sister in law helped get thing off the ground and into space.
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WASP-96b
Imaginary Picture of WASP-96 b 😆
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Southern Ring Nebula
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Stephan’s Quintet
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Carina Nebula
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Seems to be the current image standard for the announced targets, will be interesting to see the difference. Not sure we'll get an image of an exoplanet. 😆
I think these are right, if not, correct me.
It'll be pictures of Hitler- as foretold in the documentary Contact
Biden meant to be realising an image tonight about 10pm, 5pm ET.
10:30
Why am I surprised that it's late 🙂
FFS Joe. C'mon.
They are just playing with us now! Mon Joe shift it! Wakey, wakey! 😆
I'm guessing it's going to be interesting if the first images are being unveiled by Biden.
Either amazing. . . or massively underwhelming until you get you’re head around what you’re looking at
Here we go!
Yeah I’m gonna need a better look at that
Edit: this’ll help
Jeez, there’s a shit-ton of gravity lensing going on in there! 😳
Oh my!
Loads of pics on Tuesday; I have no concept of what's to come but cannot wait!
that's the hubble ultra deep field, guessing the webb one is just a fraction of this image.
That was the worst tv presentation I've ever seen btw, but i'll let it slide since it's just a preview! 😆
I'm guessing the specs of dust you can see when zoomed in are also galaxies. Canny wait till some boffin explains this properly the morra!
Ah, it's that first image I posted the other day. Here's the 2 of them over laid.
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Here's a cropped in version too, gives a better comparison.
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Whoa.
love the gravitational lensing in that image.
Apparently half 2 for the other images.
Given how spectacularly massive our own galaxy is, that image takes some time to digest.
I think pictures like this must create a kind of existential fear in some folk to the point where it's just easier to pretend it isn't real. Could anyone really come to terms with the magnitude of what that image conveys and then think to themselves "yup, it's just us in the universe"?
Apparently half 2 for the other images.
Don't forget daylight saving. 10:30am Eastern, It'll be half three here.
ahh, aye was an hour late last night that'll be why.
This is class, takes a minute to load properly btw. zoom out.
http://web.wwtassets.org/specials/2022/jwst-smacs/#
It is utterly incomprehensible. And all those little dots and swirls are galaxies that will be super-massive just like ours – and the black spaces all around them are even bigger.
Made the mistake of opening the image on a bigger screen. Going to need a wee lie down I think . . .
From another perspective, we’re as far distant as all those galaxies!
From a purely technical standpoint, resolution on that is spectacular. So much detail. At first glance it looks like another Hubble deep field with added gravity lens fun. But on closer inspection... holy crap!
Kinda (kinda!) reminds me of when I went to a 20" dobsonian from 12". I spent the first few sessions looking at things I knew and going "whoah! That's a lot more detail!", but then moved into seeing things I simply could not before. I guess that's where JWST will go to. Bit bigger in scale than my wee scopes though 🙂
I agree with nick and Ox - the implications for me come in waves. It's staggering what we are looking at, simply awe inspiring. First thing that comes to mind is surely, sometime, we must be able to figure out a way to jump between these islands. Was it in The Algebraist that they figured out how to use the blackholes at the centre of galaxies to 'jump'?
Anyhoo - looking forward to the next stuff!
The 2 images I overlaid, I read that the hubble version took 2 weeks of exposures, the webb one took 12.5 hours. Which is a nice feature to have!
From another perspective, we’re as far distant as all those galaxies!
This is worth a watch, the scales are litteraly incomprehencible:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0017njc/secrets-of-size-atoms-to-supergalaxies-series-1-2-going-big
Jeez, there’s a shit-ton of gravity lensing going on in there! 😳
I’ve watched various astronomers describing the lensing but that is the best description so far.
Has anyone worked out how to resolve lensed light into an image?