The James Webb Telescope

[Red Squirrel]

queue meme of hubble = 360p, j.webb=4k

RTX On

 

[eelw]

Images will just get better from this point on. The calibration/testing phase is complete. For certain objects, they'll give long observation times.

 

[Mai72]

Is this.... God?

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Nawwhh, that doesn't look like George Burns.

 

[Steltek]

JWST's first direct image taken of an exoplanet.

Cool freakin' stuff.

 

[Steltek]

Tarantula Nebula

 

[eelw]

Next stunning image released today

New 'breathtaking' Webb images to reveal the secrets of star birth | CNN

"Breathtaking" images of a stellar nursery in the Orion Nebula taken by the James Webb Space Telescope are revealing intricate details about how stars and planetary systems form.

www.cnn.com

But is this from data collected from this spring during testing and calibration or new data after learning and getting out the kinks

 

[HomerJS]

Is this.... God?

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Hold my beer

 

[sdifox]

Why do we need a word like exoplanet when almost all planets are outside the solar system?

 

[IronWing]

Why do we need a word like explained when almost all planets are outside the solar system?

Like, I don’t know.

 

[sdifox]

Like, I don’t know.

Autocorrect hell lol

 

[brianmanahan]

Hold my beer

the planet killer???

 

[igor_kavinski]

Why do we need a word like exoplanet when almost all planets are outside the solar system?

Our solar system does have planets. We can do away with the word exoplanets but then we would have to call our own planets, endoplanets.

 

[sdifox]

Our solar system does have planets. We can do away with the word exoplanets but then we would have to call our own planets, endoplanets.

That makes far more sense to me since we only have a few planets compared to the universe.

 

[igor_kavinski]

That makes far more sense to me since we only have a few planets compared to the universe.

Feel free to bring it up at the next planetary meeting of the Space Observatory Association

 

[JEDI]

Our solar system does have planets. We can do away with the word exoplanets but then we would have to call our own planets, endoplanets.

thought exoplanets were rogue planets without a sun?
ie: broke away from orbiting it's sun

 

[JEDI]

Waiting for j.Webb to show us a Dyson sphere

 

[sdifox]

thought exoplanets were rogue planets without a sun?
ie: broke away from orbiting it's sun

no, planets that is not part of the Solar System. Basically almost all the planets in the universe are exoplanets.

 

[sdifox]

Feel free to bring it up at the next planetary meeting of the Space Observatory Association

Unfortunately I have been declared persona non grata due to the Pluto de-planetfication fiasco.

 

[Commodus]

Waiting for j.Webb to show us a Dyson sphere

If an alien civilization is advanced enough to make a Dyson sphere, we won't need the JWST to show it... because they'll probably make their presence very obvious!

 

[igor_kavinski]

thought exoplanets were rogue planets without a sun?
ie: broke away from orbiting it's sun

That would be scary. Imagine a whole planet hurtling through space. Imagine the damage it would cause on impact.

But planets are so big that they sink in the gravity well of the star they break off from during initial stages of star formation. They don't have the exit velocity to escape the huge central mass's gravity they try to get away from.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Damn aliens use their megatelescopes to watch us shower naked. Those perverts!

 

[JEDI]

That would be scary. Imagine a whole planet hurtling through space. Imagine the damage it would cause on impact.

I'm thinking pool balls on a planetary scale

 

[IronWing]

Waiting for j.Webb to show us a Dyson sphere

Wouldn’t a Dyson Sphere be black on the outside? I guess folks could update paint it something cheerful.

 

[eelw]

I'm thinking pool balls on a planetary scale

More like playing pool on a soccer field.