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

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

More to come tomorrow.

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

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

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

[tweet]https://twitter.com/jason4short/status/1546626672488632321[/tweet]

That's mega

Eraser wrote:[tweet]https://twitter.com/jason4short/status/1546626672488632321[/tweet]

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 The answer is probably, but the image is going to be rather outdated.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.

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"

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.

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.

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.

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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Here are some more:

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

Awesome

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

Transient wrote:Here are some more:


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

:olo: :olo: :olo:

Damn :olo:

Transient wrote:Here are some more:
[lvlshot]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/369088724241481731/996570029275484240/Southern_Ring_Nebula_Goatse.jpg[/lvlshot]
The last one took some color correction on my part to bring into focus something I think NASA may have missed.

The cosmic butthole. :olo:

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.

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

Transient wrote:
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:olo: :olo: :olo:
Bravo

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

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

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.

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.

Hi tnf!