James Webb Space Telescope
 

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!!

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.

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.

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.

Mind boggling!

This is backwards time travel.

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

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

god bless

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

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?

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?

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?

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

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

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.

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

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/release...0506115622.htm

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

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

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

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

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

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/m...7S8Z6HBXMYATGJ

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

yep it's been my desktop wallpaper for a week

surreal cosmic oil painting

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/techn...777894ea8a2e17