[murd0c]

The replacement for the Hubble was sent up this past December and is finally ready to show the first photos taken from it. They are releasing the first photo right now with the remainder 4 being released tomorrow. I for one have ben excited for this moment for years and can't wait!!

https://youtu.be/Z13QK1shc7A

[wreck]

https://twitter.com/NASAWebb/status/1546621080298835970

[murd0c]

Just think that photo is basically a grain of sand and every 6 six sided object is a star and the rest are different galaxies... This is a new chapter of astronomy and I can't wait to see what they find.

[PeanutButter]

This is such an exciting time for those in astronomy.

I find it particularly interesting that our brains can't even comprehend the scale and magnitude of that image.

[murd0c]

It's crazy to think that the what we are seeing is so old that everything could of been gone for billions of years and we would have no clue.

[Acura604]

https://youtu.be/OE8Tc1cvSYM?t=122

[whitev70r]

Mind boggling!

This is backwards time travel.

We are literally just a speck of dust in the universe.

[MG1]

and............... still no sign of jesus

god bless

[68style]

HE IS COMING BACK... just you wait! hahaha

[yray]

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/183/103/alens.jpg

[Badhobz]

https://c.tenor.com/LsAeLO0naKEAAAAd/mind-blown-tim-and-eric.gif

[whitev70r]

It does make one wonder if we can take a picture of that clarity and reach back that far in time ... shouldn't there be some evidence of aliens or extraterrestial intelligent life forms? Or, are they shy?

Eg. if some intelligent life form could do the same from the other side of the universe, would there be any signs of life evident around planet earth? Like could they detect satellites we put up? Or the space station? Or a spaceship heading towards Mars? Or footprints on the moon?

[blkgsr]

there's no way there's not other worlds with some form of animal life (just imagine the possibilities) or intelligent life. We did it why couldn't they?

[underscore]

It does make one wonder if we can take a picture of that clarity and reach back that far in time ... shouldn't there be some evidence of aliens or extraterrestial intelligent life forms? Or, are they shy?

Eg. if some intelligent life form could do the same from the other side of the universe, would there be any signs of life evident around planet earth? Like could they detect satellites we put up? Or the space station? Or a spaceship heading towards Mars? Or footprints on the moon?

Two issues with that I think. We'd only be able to see it if they happened to have something visible to us at the point in time that we're currently seeing. So it would've had to occur millions or billions of years ago for us to see it now since that's how long it takes for the light to get here. Also even with how much the telescope can see, things that are unbelievably huge irl are still tiny in the image.

I'm not sure how radio waves are observed by comparison though, but I think that would be more likely to detect something?

[68style]

Not sure I'd offer up our current world as an example of intelligent life :(

[murd0c]

The other four pictures which are beyond incredible, they don't even look real. I'm still at work so I can't link them to here right now.

https://www.nasa.gov/webbfirstimages

[whitev70r]

Two issues with that I think. We'd only be able to see it if they happened to have something visible to us at the point in time that we're currently seeing. So it would've had to occur millions or billions of years ago for us to see it now since that's how long it takes for the light to get here. Also even with how much the telescope can see, things that are unbelievably huge irl are still tiny in the image.

I'm not sure how radio waves are observed by comparison though, but I think that would be more likely to detect something?

K, that makes sense in that it would have had to happen millions of years ago for us to detect it via the Webb telescope now.

[TOS'd]

All the fullres pictures can be found here: https://webbtelescope.org/news/first-images/gallery

[MG1]

Is that the face of moses I see in the nebula?


Kind of like the face of jesus on the toast, lolololololol...........

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/05/140506115622.htm

Sorry...... I just couldn't help it. You guys know I'm not a fan of christianity. god bless

[MG1]

What the hell do they teach in high school science these days?

[GS8]

What the hell do they teach in high school science these days?

FIFTEEN REASONS YOU NEED PUBERTY BLOCKERS RIGHT NOW. NUMBER 6 WILL SHOCK YOU!!!

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I always loved space. Watching Star Trek as a kid and learning about the cosmos. Carl Sagan put it best:

Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

I don't even watch much TV anymore. I just go out there and live each day.

[murd0c]

What the hell do they teach in high school science these days?

crazy advanced math that no one will ever use and that's it...

[blkgsr]

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/2022/031/01G77PKB8NKR7S8Z6HBXMYATGJ

that is a gorgeous photo. i just might get that printed in high res

[twitchyzero]

yep it's been my desktop wallpaper for a week

surreal cosmic oil painting

[pastarocket]

Sad news. A micro meteroid does permanent damage to one of the mirrors of the telescope. A 10 billion US telescope that cannot be fixed.

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/technology/the-10-billion-james-webb-space-telescope-has-been-permanently-damaged/ar-AAZNBe7?ocid=entnewsntp&cvid=806da9fb4f064edaa7777894ea8a2e17

[whitev70r]

Just read an article that was doubly mind blowing ... the farthest star that was seen in recent pictures is like 13.1 billion light years away but because of the expansion of the universe, it is now actually ~ 30 billion light years away ... how the hell can they figure that out? But I guess when you're talking about 20-30 billion light years, what's like +/- a few billion light years off?

:fulloffuck:

[pastarocket]

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20220804/5f396dff371de82a5091f86075f6d402.jpg

The telescope captured this image of a galaxy which has the shape of a cartwheel.

Beautiful!

Article about the Cartwheel Galaxy:

https://petapixel.com/2022/08/02/james-webb-telescope-captures-incredible-photo-of-cartwheel-galaxy/?fbclid=IwAR1TU3ubZnObHOuIL8IRuHnV1PzdBd5CsYFmV3WF YjpyetwVuIvs644rj2E&mibextid=vgW32m&fs=e&s=cl


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[Liquid_o2]

Every time I see pictures from the JWT, it absolutely blows my mind. All those blue dots in the galaxy are potential stars. And the galaxy is more than 100,000 light years across! And look at all the galaxies in the background... how can we be alone in this universe?

:fulloffuck:

[Badhobz]

how can we be alone in this universe?

:fulloffuck:

cuz we are stupid and childish and cant even stop fighting amongst ourselves to realize just how insignificant we all are.

Aliens be like :heckno::heckno: :fuuuuu: humanity

Probably watching our planet like we watch rightwing TV.

[Matsuda]

French scientist Etienne Klein apologises after 'James Webb Telescope' image revealed as slice of chorizo

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-05/french-scientist-apologises-for-chorizo-star-joke/101305334

[underscore]

cuz we are stupid and childish and cant even stop fighting amongst ourselves to realize just how insignificant we all are.

Aliens be like :heckno::heckno: :fuuuuu: humanity

Probably watching our planet like we watch rightwing TV.

Or if they stopped by a few million years ago, saw dinosaurs, and noped the fuck out of here and haven't been back since haha

[pastarocket]

A beautiful picture of Jupiter.

The telescope captures the auroras that are at high altitude above the northern and southern poles of Jupiter.


https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20220822/7ade39252600702c92a7f48872f650e7.jpg


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[GLOW]

that white circle on jupiter... :suspicious::considered:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f9/Death_star1.png/220px-Death_star1.png

[murd0c]

A storm bigger then earth :eek5r:

[CivicBlues]

It's actually red, and it's a storm that's been going on for at least 350 years - the entirety of humanity's observation of Jupiter with telescopes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Red_Spot

[GLOW]

red you say?

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/mcs/media/images/79630000/jpg/_79630637_alamydt7hcy.jpg