General Astronomy

[argyle]

At 10:30pm (ish) NASA will be releasing the first picture from the James Webb Telescope.

Tomorrow there will be releasing another 4 or 5. I'm looking forward to the deep field one looking at a gravitational lense of a number of galaxies, 13 billion light years away.

LIve stream here

 

[Ribble73]

President Joe Biden 2022 and advanced Astro-Physics -a bit of a mismatch

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

President Joe Biden 2022 and advanced Astro-Physics -a bit of a mismatch

Yeah, can’t wait for Trump 2024 briefings on Astro-Physics.

 

[argyle]

 

[Mozzer]

At 10:30pm (ish) NASA will be releasing the first picture from the James Webb Telescope.

Tomorrow there will be releasing another 4 or 5. I'm looking forward to the deep field one looking at a gravitational lense of a number of galaxies, 13 billion light years away.

LIve stream here

Wow, cheers for the link, it's saying it will begin shortly.

 

[ultimateharold]

Wow, cheers for the link, it's saying it will begin shortly.

It's finished - tbh the presentation was pretty underwhelming. I thought they may have spent longer on it.

 

[bluethrunthru]

Just watched it on the news - mind blown..................... I am from an era of grainy images of " One small step for man.... " - Jeez this is mad.........

 

[manimanc]

That image looks like the one from the hubble telescope on the horizon programme I've just watch on BBC4.

 

[SWP's back]

“This first image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date. Known as Webb’s First Deep Field, this image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 is overflowing with detail. Thousands of galaxies – including the faintest objects ever observed in the infrared – have appeared in Webb’s view for the first time. This slice of the vast universe covers a patch of sky approximately the size of a grain of sand held at arm’s length by someone on the ground.”

That’s just so crazy and shows just how insignificant we are.

 

[SWP's back]

That image looks like the one from the hubble telescope on the horizon programme I've just watch on BBC4.

Yes although that took weeks to gather the photons and the James Webb took just a day.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

That image looks like the one from the hubble telescope on the horizon programme I've just watch on BBC4.

It’ll be interesting to hear what they think they’ve discovered from this as, like you, I’ve not seen much that the Hubble has already shown.

I’m sure there’ll be loads to see when they’ve analysed the data.

 

[SWP's back]

It’ll be interesting to hear what they think they’ve discovered from this as, like you, I’ve not seen much that the Hubble has already shown.

I’m sure there’ll be loads to see when they’ve analysed the data.

They’re releasing more images today I believe with the telescope turned up to full power.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

They’re releasing more images today I believe with the telescope turned up to full power.

It should be amazing. It could be mind blowing.

 

[argyle]

Crazy that light from those galaxies has traveled for over 13 billion years.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Crazy that light from those galaxies has traveled for over 13 billions years.

And that the sound won’t be here for billions more.

It’s mad that you’re looking at history in the sky. Some of what you see wont exist anymore.

Perspective is lost from photos.

 

[Ribble73]

And to think we are looking back in time at these Galaxies as they were millions of years ago -a Space and Time incomprehensible when there wasn’t even a notion of our Solar System let alone us, our Solar System and the Earth

It always freaks me out this looking back In time business with the Speed of Light etc

 

[DenisLawBackHeel74]

It’s pretty mind blowing when you zoom in on all those galaxies….insane really.

 

[Barcon]

I have a fairly good grasp of the basics.
Space is up.

 

[JRockBlues]

The big data release is tomorrow (12th July) as a birthday gift for me. Nice of them to schedule it like that.

 

[TonyM]

Just goes to prove that the Earth is flat with a sparkly ceiling.