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PostPosted: 07-11-2022 02:55 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


The first photo from the James Webb Space Telescope came a day early, here it is:


https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjk8ep/ ... -telescope

More to come tomorrow. :up:




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PostPosted: 07-11-2022 03:04 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


I was waiting for this, mentioned in Discord. Thank you Transient :up:



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PostPosted: 07-11-2022 11:37 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


It's space as JJ Abrams imagined it: lens flares everywhere.




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PostPosted: 07-12-2022 12:10 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


At least it doesn't look like space as imagined by Michael Bay. I would prefer my aliens to be docile and friendly, TYVM.




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PostPosted: 07-12-2022 02:16 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


That's mega




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PostPosted: 07-12-2022 02:24 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Eraser wrote:

So this is the same spot, the same rotation, the same setup from two different telescopes? The first one is Hubble's telescope, and the second one is Webb's? We couldn't see that far before, this is definitely an improvement.

On a lighter note, people are speculating whether the telescope is going to see life elsewhere in the universe. The answer is probably, but the image is going to be rather outdated. Given that these stars and galaxies are millions of light years away, we won't see how these galaxies look like today. For all we know, they could be long gone now and all we see is a million years old light that finally got to us and therefore we only see a lingering picture of a past long gone.

EDIT: Just for clarification, our very own Sun is 8 light minutes away from us. I could use a regular metric unit that's usually used when talking about distance of Sun from Earth, but I wanted to emphasize that it actually takes full 8 minutes for light from Sun to reach Earth (bear in mind that light travels approximately 300 km/s, which is 18000 km/min, and it takes 8 minutes for the light from Sun to reach Earth, so that's 18K * 8, that's 144000 km, that's 89477.45 miles - yes I used Google to get exact result). So if Sun suddenly vanished now, we would know that 8 minutes later. And that's the closest star to Earth, so there you can see the scale.



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PostPosted: 07-12-2022 04:58 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


somewhere out there an alien species is looking up at the same thing and thinking "praise great god Zyxylyx for making all this just for us"




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PostPosted: 07-12-2022 09:37 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


CZghost wrote:
EDIT: Just for clarification, our very own Sun is 8 light minutes away from us. I could use a regular metric unit that's usually used when talking about distance of Sun from Earth, but I wanted to emphasize that it actually takes full 8 minutes for light from Sun to reach Earth (bear in mind that light travels approximately 300 km/s, which is 18000 km/min, and it takes 8 minutes for the light from Sun to reach Earth, so that's 18K * 8, that's 144000 km, that's 89477.45 miles - yes I used Google to get exact result). So if Sun suddenly vanished now, we would know that 8 minutes later. And that's the closest star to Earth, so there you can see the scale.

It's even trippier than that; only the light from the surface of the Sun takes 8 mintues to reach us. The photons generated in the center of the Sun get bounced around in random directions so much that it takes around a million years for them to get to the outer layer and then get ejected out toward us to see. :cool:




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PostPosted: 07-12-2022 11:28 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


The images they've released are incredible.

Regarding that first picture: Webb’s image covers a patch of sky approximately the size of a grain of sand held at arm’s length by someone on the ground – and reveals thousands of galaxies in a tiny sliver of vast universe.

Mind blown.




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PostPosted: 07-12-2022 02:16 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Mind blown for sure.
I am roused by the indication, there are indeed more galaxies in the sky than grains of sand on Earth.

Check out the NASA page on the “Stephan’s Quintet” picture.



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I resized 3 of the JWST images into 4k desktops (3840x2160) for my own convenience, figured I'd share them here in case anyone wants 'em.










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PostPosted: 07-12-2022 04:22 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Here are some more:







The last one took some color correction on my part to bring into focus something I think NASA may have missed. :up:




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PostPosted: 07-12-2022 05:40 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Awesome :up:



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PostPosted: 07-12-2022 09:12 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Transient wrote:
I resized 3 of the JWST images into 4k desktops (3840x2160) for my own convenience, figured I'd share them here in case anyone wants 'em.


Cheers bruv




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PostPosted: 07-12-2022 09:17 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Transient wrote:
Here are some more:




The last one took some color correction on my part to bring into focus something I think NASA may have missed. :up:

:olo: :olo: :olo:




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PostPosted: 07-12-2022 09:46 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Damn :olo:




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PostPosted: 07-12-2022 09:47 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Transient wrote:
Here are some more:

The last one took some color correction on my part to bring into focus something I think NASA may have missed. :up:

The cosmic butthole. :olo:



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PostPosted: 07-12-2022 11:07 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Transient wrote:
It's even trippier than that; only the light from the surface of the Sun takes 8 mintues to reach us. The photons generated in the center of the Sun get bounced around in random directions so much that it takes around a million years for them to get to the outer layer and then get ejected out toward us to see. :cool:

So in theory if the very last photon was generated right now, we would know after a million years? That's cool! :D



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PostPosted: 07-13-2022 12:52 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Transient wrote:




:olo: :olo: :olo:
Bravo




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PostPosted: 07-13-2022 03:56 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


As impressive as those images are what's more impressive is that Transient probably used a reference to draw that. The wedding ring is a nice touch.

What blows my mind though is that the butthole galaxy image you can see the outlines of an entire galaxy in front of it. O_O




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PostPosted: 07-13-2022 09:36 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


I was willing to take one for the team to bring the lulz. :up:




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CZghost wrote:
EDIT: Just for clarification, our very own Sun is 8 light minutes away from us. I could use a regular metric unit that's usually used when talking about distance of Sun from Earth, but I wanted to emphasize that it actually takes full 8 minutes for light from Sun to reach Earth (bear in mind that light travels approximately 300 km/s, which is 18000 km/min, and it takes 8 minutes for the light from Sun to reach Earth, so that's 18K * 8, that's 144000 km, that's 89477.45 miles - yes I used Google to get exact result). So if Sun suddenly vanished now, we would know that 8 minutes later. And that's the closest star to Earth, so there you can see the scale.


Think you got your numbers a little off. It's 300,000 km/s and 18,000,000 km/min. 144,000,000 km or 89,477,451 miles. Just forgot a few digits.




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Scourge wrote:
CZghost wrote:
EDIT: Just for clarification, our very own Sun is 8 light minutes away from us. I could use a regular metric unit that's usually used when talking about distance of Sun from Earth, but I wanted to emphasize that it actually takes full 8 minutes for light from Sun to reach Earth (bear in mind that light travels approximately 300 km/s, which is 18000 km/min, and it takes 8 minutes for the light from Sun to reach Earth, so that's 18K * 8, that's 144000 km, that's 89477.45 miles - yes I used Google to get exact result). So if Sun suddenly vanished now, we would know that 8 minutes later. And that's the closest star to Earth, so there you can see the scale.


Think you got your numbers a little off. It's 300,000 km/s and 18,000,000 km/min. 144,000,000 km or 89,477,451 miles. Just forgot a few digits.


This is America. It's right around 186,300 miles/second.




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PostPosted: 07-13-2022 08:43 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Hi tnf!




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Scourge wrote:
Think you got your numbers a little off. It's 300,000 km/s and 18,000,000 km/min. 144,000,000 km or 89,477,451 miles. Just forgot a few digits.

Oh yeah, right.



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Transient wrote:
Here are some more:



The last one took some color correction on my part to bring into focus something I think NASA may have missed. :up:



:olo: :olo: :olo: :olo: WINNAR!




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This is America. It's right around 186,300 miles/second.

I'm pretty sure about half of this forum lives in UK (which is in Europe), about 35% lives in US, and the rest are non-English speaking countries (like mine). About 99% of the world uses metric system, only 3 countries on the world still stick to Imperial. That is USA, Myanmar and Liberia (totally didn't look that up). Myanmar and Liberia has been using metric system in parallel of the imerial one for quite a bit of time now, and they're in the process of conversion to metric system, which will leave USA the only country in the world to use imperial system. Luckily, some folks over in US start to find metric system useful and much easier to use than imperial, especially in measurements. Because metric system makes unit conversions easier with the use of decimal number system, people have an immediate idea of how long a kilometer actually is. Measurements are so much easier in metric system.



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Oh, and speaking of NASA - they also use metric system, despite being American institute. Isn't that funny?



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Hook, line and sinker




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tnf wrote:
This is America. It's right around 186,300 miles/second.

I'm pretty sure about half of this forum lives in UK (which is in Europe), about 35% lives in US, and the rest are non-English speaking countries (like mine). About 99% of the world uses metric system, only 3 countries on the world still stick to Imperial. That is USA, Myanmar and Liberia (totally didn't look that up). Myanmar and Liberia has been using metric system in parallel of the imerial one for quite a bit of time now, and they're in the process of conversion to metric system, which will leave USA the only country in the world to use imperial system. Luckily, some folks over in US start to find metric system useful and much easier to use than imperial, especially in measurements. Because metric system makes unit conversions easier with the use of decimal number system, people have an immediate idea of how long a kilometer actually is. Measurements are so much easier in metric system.

I'm pretty sure tnf was being facetious. ;)




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What's this 'metric system' you speak of?

When I was doing research I routinely mixed up concentrations of various biological solutions at 1 x 10-30 pounds per microgallon.




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PostPosted: 07-14-2022 09:25 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Transient wrote:
Hi tnf!


Hey Transient!




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Transient wrote:
Hi tnf!


Hi tnf. You been good?

... and speaking of metric vs imperial..

CZghost wrote:
Oh, and speaking of NASA - they also use metric system, despite being American institute. Isn't that funny?


Weird maybe but here in Australia :D we are 'metric' and decimal (currency) even tides are now measured in metres but weirdly news, particularly weather reporters, report waves heights on the beaches and for the surfing fraternity in feet!



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Not everything is measured in metric system. For example, here in Czechia, we're mostly using metric system, but plumbing is measured in imperial system (especially sizes). It's a kind of standard to be honest. Imperial system is actually worked externally into the SI metric system via conversion formulas, so it is possible to convert between miles and kilometers for example.



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