James Webb Telesccope...

[enjoythemusic]

Originally Posted by dubshack

how’s this for some perspective…

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[fmc000]

Just because I haven't seen in mentioned in this thread: the pictures were taken pointing to a portion of the sky not bigger than a grain of sand when looked at an arm distance. Just imagine what's out there if we can see so much in so little.

[Mendota]

Awesome posts and contributions from everyone, as always! What an amazing time this is where those of us who aren't astronomers or astrophysicists can easily access so much research. 50 years ago people would have never imagined what the average person could see today.

Here's a cool deep dive video from Dr. Beck where she highlights the the different wavelengths and then shows how their data is so precise that it even allows them to split out data for the individual elements.

https://youtu.be/7K2J-cO_tOI


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[sybaris]

Can't wait until they do some serious atmospheric characterizations of exo-planets and find one with O2 out of equilibrium from natural processes.

[Stan Cooper]

Here's another article explaining what we're looking at in each of the released Webb images. This one is online at the Washington Post, and is interactive.

From the article:

About this story
This annotation was compiled with the assistance of many scientists and researchers, including: Jane Rigby of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; Joseph DePasquale and Amaya Moro-Martin of the Space Telescope Science Institute, and Garth Illingworth of the University of California at Santa Cruz.

Visual editing by Julie Vitkovskaya. Design and development by Garland Potts. Graphics by Aaron Steckelberg and William Neff. Photo editing by Tristen Rouse. Copy editing by Jeremy Hester.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/interactive/2022/nasa-webb-space-telescope-images-explained/

[flyinghell34]

Something does not seem right here

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[Dr.Brian]

What’s amazing is that over 13 billion years ago, when the known universe was just an infant, photons waves left stars in a never before seen newly formed galaxy and travelled unperturbed, outside of some redshift from expansion, to arrive at this little polished floating mirror, to be collected, analyzed and the image transferred down to earth, so I can zoom in on them on my iPad.
That’s amazing. An image of 13 billion year old energy waves, just doing what they do, rolling on forever. Except we intercepted them.
Then in the basement of a little building on the earth, we made our own photons and used them to treat some kid with cancer.
These are amazing times. And these things show us we don’t know anything.

[enjoythemusic]

Originally Posted by Dr.Brian

What’s amazing is that over 13 billion years ago, when the known universe was just an infant, photons waves left stars in a never before seen newly formed galaxy and travelled unperturbed, outside of some redshift from expansion, to arrive at this little polished floating mirror, to be collected, analyzed and the image transferred down to earth, so I can zoom in on them on my iPad.
That’s amazing.

Look at those cavemen go