The James Webb Space Telescope and stuff

Minmus Taster · July 11, 2022

It begins...

grawl · July 11, 2022

For the love of god I thought that interpret would never start to move.

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Blah blah blah show us the pic already

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Show, then speak later! It's not a darn TV show.

Ho, wait...

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Nice !

That's a lot of galaxies.

Edited July 11, 2022 by grawl

Minmus Taster · July 11, 2022

HYPE!

First image:

First Image from James Webb Space Telescope : r/memes

sevenperforce · July 11, 2022

Minmus Taster · July 11, 2022

Second image

It's beautiful

grawl · July 11, 2022

Is that gravitation lenses we are looking at ?

StrandedonEarth · July 11, 2022

I got home and tuned in seconds before that picture was revealed. Perfect timing!

tater · July 11, 2022

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StrandedonEarth · July 11, 2022

Just now, grawl said:

Is that gravitation lenses we are looking at ?

I believe I heard that mentioned, yes.

tater · July 11, 2022

sevenperforce · July 11, 2022

It's the zoom that gets me.

Minmus Taster · July 11, 2022

I'm confused, the image is stunning but is it infrared or visible light? NASA did say in press releases that the image would be "full color".

JoeSchmuckatelli · July 11, 2022

9 minutes ago, Minmus Taster said:

I'm confused, the image is stunning but is it infrared or visible light? NASA did say in press releases that the image would be "full color".

False colors most likely - shows people what they expect to see.

Oi - looks like someone leaked (kinda) yesterday

SMACS 0723

https://www.wral.com/weather/image/20368065/

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Edited July 11, 2022 by JoeSchmuckatelli

JoeSchmuckatelli · July 11, 2022

Zoom-able image thanks to UC Santa Cruz!

http://slate.ucsc.edu/~brant/jwst/SMACS-0723/?ra=1504.5556641&dec=409.2967529&zoom=4

cubinator · July 11, 2022

1 hour ago, Minmus Taster said:

I'm confused, the image is stunning but is it infrared or visible light? NASA did say in press releases that the image would be "full color".

It's infrared. Colors invisible to humans.

Paelohiki · July 12, 2022

Looking forward to seeing the Carina Nebula tomorrow.

JoeSchmuckatelli · July 12, 2022

I was hoping they'd just publish the images, along with some comments by astronomers about what we are seeing and how Webb is helping advance the field.

However, I reread the announcement and they describe it as an "unveiling".

To my mind, that's an event... And after last night's dog and po-yawn-ny show, I may have it on mute. Politicians and administrators, yada-yada-blah-blah-blah... Here's one image every half hour.

The saving grace will be if they get Michelle Thaller to narrate again, as they did for the launch.

That was top notch.

JoeSchmuckatelli · July 12, 2022

AW-SNAP - they're doing it right!

She's narrating and it's good!

First Images From the James Webb Space Telescope | NASA

Okay - actually, it's a bit hackneyed.

They could have used a bit more professional camera and directorial crew, and much better comms to the remote locations. Blurred web-cam level stuff to India, and 80's level 'are you there? Ted? Okay, we'll come back to Ted in a bit...' talks to other collaborators in remote locations.

Edited July 12, 2022 by JoeSchmuckatelli

JoeSchmuckatelli · July 12, 2022

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cubinator · July 12, 2022

Water and clouds in the atmosphere of the gas giant WASP-96b

a spectroscopy chart for exoplanet WASP-96 b with a best-fit line in blue set against an illustrated background of an exoplanet; the chart has peaks associated with H2O in the composition of the exoplanets atmosphere

Minmus Taster · July 12, 2022

Holy cow just show us the images XD

$The image is split down the middle, showing two views of the Southern Ring Nebula. Both feature black backgrounds speckled with tiny bright stars and distant galaxies. Both show the planetary nebula as a misshapen oval that is slightly angled from top left to bottom right and takes up the majority of each image. At left, the near-infrared image shows a bright white star at the center with long diffraction spikes. Large, transparent teal and orange ovals, which are shells ejected by the unseen central star, surround it. At right, the mid-infrared image shows two stars at the center very close to one another. The one at left is red, the smaller one at right is light blue. The blue star has tiny triangles around it. A large transparent red oval surrounds the central stars. From that extend shells in a mix of colors, which are red to the left and right and teal to the top and bottom. Overall, the oval shape of the planetary nebula appears slightly smaller than the one seen at left.$

Southern ring planetary nebula

Edited July 12, 2022 by Minmus Taster

Minmus Taster · July 12, 2022

Stephan's Quintet:
$A group of five galaxies that appear close to each other in the sky: two in the middle, one toward the top, one to the upper left, and one toward the bottom. Four of the five appear to be touching. One is somewhat separated. In the image, the galaxies are large relative to the hundreds of much smaller (more distant) galaxies in the background. All five galaxies have bright white cores. Each has a slightly different size, shape, structure, and coloring. Scattered across the image, in front of the galaxies are number of foreground stars with diffraction spikes: bright white points, each with eight bright lines radiating out from the center.$

Minmus Taster · July 12, 2022

Carina Nebula:

$The image is divided horizontally by an undulating line between a cloudscape forming a nebula along the bottom portion and a comparatively clear upper portion. Speckled across both portions is a starfield, showing innumerable stars of many sizes. The smallest of these are small, distant, and faint points of light. The largest of these appear larger, closer, brighter, and more fully resolved with 8-point diffraction spikes. The upper portion of the image is blueish, and has wispy translucent cloud-like streaks rising from the nebula below. The orangish cloudy formation in the bottom half varies in density and ranges from translucent to opaque. The stars vary in color, the majority of which, have a blue or orange hue. The cloud-like structure of the nebula contains ridges, peaks, and valleys – an appearance very similar to a mountain range. Three long diffraction spikes from the top right edge of the image suggest the presence of a large star just out of view.$

JoeSchmuckatelli · July 12, 2022

I love Michelle Thaller's attempts to keep this awesome - but they really need to look at how they produced/directed this. Full excitement mode, so I can easily forgive it... but this needs a LOT of post-production editing before they publish it on TV for the general public.

Too much technical difficulties, sound problems, overtalk, hot mic-ing, and playing the music too loud over narration.

Still - AWESOME!!!

5 minutes ago, Minmus Taster said:

Carina Nebula:

$The image is divided horizontally by an undulating line between a cloudscape forming a nebula along the bottom portion and a comparatively clear upper portion. Speckled across both portions is a starfield, showing innumerable stars of many sizes. The smallest of these are small, distant, and faint points of light. The largest of these appear larger, closer, brighter, and more fully resolved with 8-point diffraction spikes. The upper portion of the image is blueish, and has wispy translucent cloud-like streaks rising from the nebula below. The orangish cloudy formation in the bottom half varies in density and ranges from translucent to opaque. The stars vary in color, the majority of which, have a blue or orange hue. The cloud-like structure of the nebula contains ridges, peaks, and valleys – an appearance very similar to a mountain range. Three long diffraction spikes from the top right edge of the image suggest the presence of a large star just out of view.$

I'm in awe of this... Stephan's Quartet - and the BH is amazing... but this?

Wowzers!

StrandedonEarth · July 12, 2022

Wow! Worth the wait for my phone to load all these!

The James Webb Space Telescope and stuff

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