kerbiloid Posted July 17, 2022 Share Posted July 17, 2022 (edited) 15 minutes ago, StrandedonEarth said: Any junk loitering around a Lagrange point would be moving relatively slowly (by astronomical terms) compared to anything else parked there.... Yes, in front of the camera. Edited July 17, 2022 by kerbiloid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeSchmuckatelli Posted July 17, 2022 Share Posted July 17, 2022 Speaking of which: https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/first-image-of-micrometeoroid-damage-to-the-james-webb-space-telescope Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrandedonEarth Posted July 20, 2022 Share Posted July 20, 2022 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeSchmuckatelli Posted July 24, 2022 Share Posted July 24, 2022 (edited) Papers about the lensed galaxies in Webb's first image are starting to come out. Quote "Before Webb imaged it, SMACS J0723 wasn't the star of the show," Pascale said. "Now, suddenly, there's paper after paper on it, which really speaks to how powerful Webb is, to reveal things that we couldn't see before." ... discovered 42 new lensed images in the background of the new deep-field image. Gravitational lenses can create multiple images of the same galaxy, so these 42 images represent 19 individual galaxies. Another team, led by Gabriel Caminha of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Germany, counted 27 new lensed images. Whatever the final tally, these lensed images allow scientists to finetune a map of how matter — both visible and dark — is distributed in the SMACS J0723 cluster, Dazzling James Webb Space Telescope image prompts science scramble | Space Edited July 24, 2022 by JoeSchmuckatelli Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shpaget Posted July 26, 2022 Share Posted July 26, 2022 For all you stamp collecting aficionados, USPS, about to start selling JWST stamps. https://about.usps.com/newsroom/national-releases/2022/0726ma-usps-celebrates-james-webb-space-telescope.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nightside Posted July 26, 2022 Share Posted July 26, 2022 2 hours ago, Shpaget said: For all you stamp collecting aficionados, USPS, about to start selling JWST stamps. https://about.usps.com/newsroom/national-releases/2022/0726ma-usps-celebrates-james-webb-space-telescope.htm Will they have an L2 postmark? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeSchmuckatelli Posted July 27, 2022 Share Posted July 27, 2022 Holy Frijoles! Quote A newfound galaxy dubbed GLASS-z13, which is so far away that we see it as it appeared 300 million years after the Big Bang, now holds the record for the earliest known galaxy. That record is not expected to last long. Three days later, just minutes before the daily deadline on arxiv.org, the server where scientists can upload early versions of papers, the team submitted their research. They missed out on being first by 13 seconds, “which was pretty funny,” said Pascale. Article builds on what I posted earlier. Two Weeks In, the Webb Space Telescope Is Reshaping Astronomy | Quanta Magazine More pics in the article - which is a good read. Wait till you see the diff between the galaxy above and Hubble's view of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted July 27, 2022 Share Posted July 27, 2022 Next step: JWST UV tattooes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeSchmuckatelli Posted July 27, 2022 Share Posted July 27, 2022 it’s Galaxy IC 5332 Another Amazing Image from Webb, This Time it’s Galaxy IC 5332 - Universe Today Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeSchmuckatelli Posted July 29, 2022 Share Posted July 29, 2022 Isn't this cute: Webb's first SuperNova! ASTRONOMERS spotted something unusual happening in a distant galaxy in recent images from the James Webb Space Telescope — something that wasn’t there when Hubble last looked at the same galaxy. "We suspect it's a supernova," astronomer Mike Engesser of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) tells Inverse. Finding short-lived cosmic events like supernovae isn’t what Webb was designed to do, but the newly-operational space telescope seems to be full of surprises. And this one could open the door for looking for the death throes of the universe's first generations of massive stars. ... It's extremely bright compared to the rest of the galaxy, for one thing. And Webb observed the galaxy, called SDSS.J141930.11+5251593, twice, five days apart; the object dimmed, just slightly, over those five days — classic supernova behavior. The James Webb Space Telescope may have just found its first supernova (inverse.com) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeSchmuckatelli Posted July 29, 2022 Share Posted July 29, 2022 Also - Webb teams keep finding potentially older galaxies than those written about in the articles above: Quote Prior to the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, the most distant confirmed galaxy known was GN-z11, which astronomers saw as it was about 420 million years after the Big Bang, giving it what astronomers call a redshift of 11.6. (Redshift describes how much the light coming from a galaxy has been stretched as the universe expands. The higher the redshift, the farther back in time we see a galaxy.) Just a week after the release of the first science images from JWST, astronomers were reporting the detection of galaxies at redshift 13, equating to about 300 million years after the Big Bang. Now, a new wave of scientific results is smashing past that record, with some astronomers reporting the detection of galaxies up to a redshift of 20. If true, then we are seeing these galaxies as they existed about 200 million years after the Big Bang. JWST beats its own record with potential most distant galaxies | Space Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minmus Taster Posted July 29, 2022 Share Posted July 29, 2022 On 7/27/2022 at 6:58 PM, JoeSchmuckatelli said: it’s Galaxy IC 5332 Another Amazing Image from Webb, This Time it’s Galaxy IC 5332 - Universe Today Incredible! it kind of looks like a painting to me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gargamel Posted July 29, 2022 Share Posted July 29, 2022 My 5 year old niece is that outdoorsy type of girl, always collecting and bringing home animals to show off. Basically a Disney Princess (who likes IPA's, but that's a different story). So one Christmas I got her a junior explorer type kit, binoculars, magnifying glass, net, bug cage, fake pith helmet, all cheap plastic, you know the type. She ran around the yard the first day finding all this cool stuff with her new instruments. We're her. The scientific community has their new powerful toy, and they're finding all sorts of cool new things they never saw before. Pretty soon these little discoveries will be mundane as they discover even cooler stuff that was unreachable before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nuke Posted July 29, 2022 Share Posted July 29, 2022 i once got a 4 year old niece very interested in doom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrandedonEarth Posted August 2, 2022 Share Posted August 2, 2022 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeSchmuckatelli Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 Phone warning: this image is huge. If you're on a PC and want to see the REALLY BIG image: https://web.corral.tacc.utexas.edu/ceersdata/press-releases/HighResolution/CEERS-NIRCAM-credit-220804.tif ...('you can't hear a picture?' ) And some hype: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrandedonEarth Posted August 23, 2022 Share Posted August 23, 2022 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixophir Posted August 23, 2022 Share Posted August 23, 2022 JWST images as wallpapers for download: https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/08/22/webbs-jupiter-images-showcase-auroras-hazes/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moritz Space Posted August 23, 2022 Share Posted August 23, 2022 (edited) Wow! Edited August 23, 2022 by Moritz Space Second picture Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeSchmuckatelli Posted August 25, 2022 Share Posted August 25, 2022 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nasa-discovered-carbon-dioxide-james-webb-telescope-in-atmosphere-of-a-planet-outside-of-our-solar-system/ More details on Wasp 39b Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixophir Posted August 26, 2022 Share Posted August 26, 2022 (edited) There is a python library for JWST data analysis freely available: https://jwst-docs.stsci.edu/jwst-post-pipeline-data-analysis/jwst-data-analysis-software-packages Accessing JWST data: https://jwst-docs.stsci.edu/accessing-jwst-data Maybe it tickles somebody to try (and report ;-)) I have no time right now. Edited August 26, 2022 by Pixophir Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeSchmuckatelli Posted August 30, 2022 Share Posted August 30, 2022 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeSchmuckatelli Posted September 2, 2022 Share Posted September 2, 2022 https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/nasas-james-webb-telescope-snaps-first-picture-exoplanet-rcna45907 Yep... It's a planet. Gas giant, 355 ly away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minmus Taster Posted September 6, 2022 Share Posted September 6, 2022 Tarantula nebula as seen by NIRcam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moritz Space Posted September 14, 2022 Share Posted September 14, 2022 The inner region of the Orion Nebula as seen by NIRCam. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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