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[ntropy]

send pics asap

 

[greyshark]

 

[Insane Metal]

Two hours for the stream.

I don't expect much though. June can't come soon enough.

Edit:

 

[greyshark]

More pictures of the alignment star! Looking good so far!

 

[Aggelos]

 

[greyshark]

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

Have they found aliens yet?

 

[greyshark]

Alignment complete!

 

[Alter_Fridge]

Yaaaaaaaas

 

[Insane Metal]

Twwo months to start science.

 

[Lord Panda]

Twwo months to start science.

Can't wait

 

[Insane Metal]

Can't wait

Me too! This telescope will be bonkers.

 

[Catphish]

I have high hopes. This thing makes me proud of humanity.

 

[Snaggletooth]

So, just say they find something quite news worthy. How long does it take from when they find out to when the rest of us Earthlings finding out?

 

[Dr.D00p]

So, just say they find something quite news worthy. How long does it take from when they find out to when the rest of us Earthlings finding out?

Depends on how soon the Alien invasion fleet is spotted entering the Solar System.

 

[greyshark]

 

[Kev Kev]

been hearing a lot about this lately

one of the podcasts i was listenign to was saying there was something top secret about the first mission this thing has (or something like that), and they were pretty convinced its aliens lol.

now all this ufo talk back in the news last couple of days and i am ready to see them aliens any day now. yuuuuuuu lets goooooo

 

[ItsGreat]

been hearing a lot about this lately

one of the podcasts i was listenign to was saying there was something top secret about the first mission this thing has (or something like that), and they were pretty convinced its aliens lol.

now all this ufo talk back in the news last couple of days and i am ready to see them aliens any day now. yuuuuuuu lets goooooo

What podcast?

 

[Bitmap Frogs]

been hearing a lot about this lately

one of the podcasts i was listenign to was saying there was something top secret about the first mission this thing has (or something like that), and they were pretty convinced its aliens lol.

now all this ufo talk back in the news last couple of days and i am ready to see them aliens any day now. yuuuuuuu lets goooooo

Nah, just NASA trying to get some attention by raising expectations.

 

[Kev Kev]

What podcast?

A small one in Orlando called the jim Colbert show. It’s on the actual radio so I guess it’s not all that small

 

[MastaKiiLA]

been hearing a lot about this lately

one of the podcasts i was listenign to was saying there was something top secret about the first mission this thing has (or something like that), and they were pretty convinced its aliens lol.

now all this ufo talk back in the news last couple of days and i am ready to see them aliens any day now. yuuuuuuu lets goooooo

Sounds like BS. JWST by design can't look at Earth. There's nothing of national security that it will look at. Anything important out there is of planetary security, but that's just not realistic. JWST's science is going to be amazing enough that we don't need to conjure up alien fanfic to make it more cool.

 

[Kev Kev]

Sounds like BS. JWST by design can't look at Earth. There's nothing of national security that it will look at. Anything important out there is of planetary security, but that's just not realistic. JWST's science is going to be amazing enough that we don't need to conjure up alien fanfic to make it more cool.

No conjuring here, I partly posted to see if anyone else was talking about it. I have no idea how real it is, and it was radio so they are always trying to fill time. Didn’t sound like they were taking it super seriously so…

Looking forward to seeing actual images from Webb over the coming months and years

 

[greyshark]

July 12th!

 

[Aggelos]

It got hit by a dust-sized micrometeroid, but everything seems to be still running on green.

Webb: Engineered to Endure Micrometeoroid Impacts – James Webb Space Telescope

blogs.nasa.gov

 

[Dontkidyourselfjimmy]

 

[greyshark]

Images tomorrow!

 

[IDKFA]

Images tomorrow!

I'm hard.

Let's go!

 

[mansoor1980]

image of what? an earth like planet would be cool

 

[greyshark]

image of what? an earth like planet would be cool

The tweet above lists what they plan to show. One of them is a planet (gas giant), but nothing as small as Earth.

 

[greyshark]

Actually here’s a quick description of what they plan to show:

These listed targets below represent the first wave of full-color scientific images and spectra the observatory has gathered, and the official beginning of Webb’s general science operations. They were selected by an international committee of representatives from NASA, ESA, CSA, and the Space Telescope Science Institute.

• Carina Nebula. The Carina Nebula is one of the largest and brightest nebulae in the sky, located approximately 7,600 light-years away in the southern constellation Carina. Nebulae are stellar nurseries where stars form. The Carina Nebula is home to many massive stars, several times larger than the Sun.
• WASP-96 b (spectrum). WASP-96 b is a giant planet outside our solar system, composed mainly of gas. The planet, located nearly 1,150 light-years from Earth, orbits its star every 3.4 days. It has about half the mass of Jupiter, and its discovery was announced in 2014.
• Southern Ring Nebula. The Southern Ring, or “Eight-Burst” nebula, is a planetary nebula – an expanding cloud of gas, surrounding a dying star. It is nearly half a light-year in diameter and is located approximately 2,000 light years away from Earth.
• Stephan’s Quintet: About 290 million light-years away, Stephan’s Quintet is located in the constellation Pegasus. It is notable for being the first compact galaxy group ever discovered in 1877. Four of the five galaxies within the quintet are locked in a cosmic dance of repeated close encounters.
• SMACS 0723: Massive foreground galaxy clusters magnify and distort the light of objects behind them, permitting a deep field view into both the extremely distant and intrinsically faint galaxy populations.

 

[greyshark]

Previous image of Carina Nebula:

 

[greyshark]

Southern Ring nebula (I think taken by Hubble)

 

[greyshark]

Stephan’s Quintet (also by Hubble I believe):

 

[Pagusas]

image of what? an earth like planet would be cool

dramatically lower your expectations, that's like asking a spy satellite to take a detailed photo of a flea.

 

[NecrosaroIII]

Have we ever gotten a photo of an exoplanet before?

 

[mansoor1980]

Have we ever gotten a photo of an exoplanet before?

never

 

[NecrosaroIII]

never

That's what I thought. So if we can get a photo of Wasp, that'll be a first

 

[Hawking Radiation]

Have we ever gotten a photo of an exoplanet before?

No and never will get direct images. It might be possible if you send an array of space telescopes out to beyond Pluto and then use the sun as a gravitational lens but god only knows the cost involved and technology needed to get that done.

Only way to investigate exoplanets is to study the transit spectroscopy whereby the light of the parent star filters through the atmosphere of the exoplanet. We can only study the chemical composition of the planet through that data set.

 

[NecrosaroIII]

No and never will get direct images. It might be possible if you send an array of space telescopes out to beyond Pluto and then use the sun as a gravitational lens but god only knows the cost involved and technology needed to get that done.

Only way to investigate exoplanets is to study the transit spectroscopy whereby the light of the parent star filters through the atmosphere of the exoplanet. We can only study the chemical composition of the planet through that data set.

Why is it so hard? Is it because they're such small objects at far distances?

 

[Hawking Radiation]

Why is it so hard? Is it because they're such small objects at far distances?

Yes exactly. Also the exoplanet at these distances is lost in the glare from the parent star.

It's like trying to look at an ant crawling over a spotlight shining directly at you. There are techniques used to glimpse them directly like blocking the light from the parent star (as per the below image) but forget about any sort of surface detail akin to what you see telescopes here on earth get from observing Mars, Jupiter etc.

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

 

[jason10mm]

image of what? an earth like planet would be cool

Ahhhh, shit.

Even worse ..

 

[RJMacready73]

Why is it so hard? Is it because they're such small objects at far distances?

Theyre planets, they don't emit light

 

[Hawking Radiation]

Just a reminder. These are the best of Hubble:

Just what kinda shit are we going to see on Tuesday from James Webb. And then there's this comment from one of the scientists on the project hat has seen some of the images:

"Strap your brain in, batten down the hatches, and wait for your mind to be blown. It will be a Category 5," said Dr Kargel.


I just can't. I just fucking can't.
My hype levels are through the roof.

It seemed like yesterday that I watched the launch of this telescope live on TV in a hotel while on holiday with my partner. Its been a long fucking 6 months wait to see what James Webb can show us and we're less than 48 hours away from unravelling the universe.
Unbelievable.

 

[haxan7]

do we have a general idea of what the first images will look like?

 

[Hawking Radiation]

do we have a general idea of what the first images will look like?

Hard to comprehend since those images from Hubble are already incredibly detailed and beautiful.

Webb is about x100 times more sensitive than Hubble and able to peer through those clouds of gas and dust and see much farther into the universe. Some people who've seen the images have said they got emotional, some have said the images are humbling.
Whatever the case the hype surrounding these first images are reaching fever pitch. There's an amazing amount of interest in it.

My new PC wallpapers are coming in less than 48 hours.

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

Spoiler, there are stars behind the stars. Galaxies behind galaxies. I see a pattern.

Jokes aside I am super keen to see this first batch of images. Bring it on.

EDIT: How weird would it be if they posted a fully blacked out super high resolution image...we found a void. Mind blown.

 

[kraspkibble]

im excited to see the new photos but i don't know what to expect... like are we just going to get clearer higher resolution photos of stuff we've seen or are we expecting mind blowing images? i am sure the photos will be beautiful but im worried it'll be lost on my little monkey brain.

 

[Hawking Radiation]

Spoiler, there are stars behind the stars. Galaxies behind galaxies. I see a pattern.

Jokes aside I am super keen to see this first batch of images. Bring it on.

EDIT: How weird would it be if they posted a fully blacked out super high resolution image...we found a void. Mind blown.

Would make it infinitely more interesting huh.

Kinda like staring into the anal cavity of a prime Lisa Ann.

 

[Dr.Morris79]

Just a reminder. These are the best of Hubble:

Just what kinda shit are we going to see on Tuesday from James Webb. And then there's this comment from one of the scientists on the project hat has seen some of the images:

"Strap your brain in, batten down the hatches, and wait for your mind to be blown. It will be a Category 5," said Dr Kargel.


I just can't. I just fucking can't.
My hype levels are through the roof.

It seemed like yesterday that I watched the launch of this telescope live on TV in a hotel while on holiday with my partner. Its been a long fucking 6 months wait to see what James Webb can show us and we're less than 48 hours away from unravelling the universe.
Unbelievable.

I'm glad i'm not alone in thinking this to this degree

 

[Sakura]

Personally I'm more interested in actually learning new things than just getting pretty images.
Is there any indication that there will be some new data being revealed on Tuesday? Or is it just going to be prettier Hubble pictures?