This is the first space thing I've been excited about for a long time. If it actually works, it can do amazing work. Anyone else following JWST?
This is the first space thing I've been excited about for a long time. If it actually works, it can do amazing work...
Brody Powell
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Lincoln Howard
I am, i love the idea of it. Haven't seen any data from it yet tho, has it gotten to the L2 point yet?
Josiah Harris
Resolution of a telescope is a function of aperture and wavelength.
JWST will do most of its science in IR.
MFW it has the same resolution in IR as an 8 inch telescope in visible wavelengths.
Owen Rodriguez
im sure no one thought about its usefulness before building it, imagine their shock when it starts imaging! bravo user, you're way ahead of everyone else!
Mason James
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Yep it got there about a week ago. It's going to spend the next 3 months cooling down to as close to 0 K as it can get.
Kind of cool that it will be able to look back 13 billion years or more.
Julian Martinez
>JWST will do most of its science in IR.
Because of the red shift of those earliest galaxies.
Andrew Ramirez
I'm sure it'll do great science. But the public expects Hubble tier pretty pictures and that's not what JWST does.
Adam White
I wish JWT will find some alien megastructures with IR. Maybe like a dyson sphere radiating in IR like hell while basically blocking all visible light.
Luke Williams
Wouldn't that be super cool? Would also worry me at the same time, the technological mismatch could spell bad news for us.
Ian Mitchell
Space pics have been converted from UV to IR using false color for a long time. We're still going to get lots of pretty pics but using conversion algorithms and photoshop.
Connor Rodriguez
f r o s t y
Andrew Turner
Yes, I'm really excited for the James Web
Jason Rivera
Sure. They just won't be anywhere near as high-res as Hubble produces.
Anthony Ross
This
Eli Baker
You don't know what you're talking about and that is okay.
Kevin Clark
Jaxson Myers
This shouldn't matter, but it actually matters a great deal because the funding is approved by politicians and they listen when the public bitches about the lack of pretty pictures.
Camden Wilson
Christopher Bell
>Space pics have been converted from UV to IR
Say what now?
I think you mean space spics taken in wavelengths other than visible light have substituted colors to represent relative wavelengths for the human eye.
Ryan Bennett
Yep. Should get first real images around June. April will have the photos non-stacked and it'll look pretty sad. I'm really looking forward to how this changes everything we understand about space.
Colton Evans
…idk. Jews will probably find some way to make this about getting booster shots or normalizing pedos. I don’t trust this thing. Took them 6 million fucking years to get it in space. Fucking welfare niggers at NASA. But hey, we’ll see.
Christopher Baker
>space spics
Please. We call them "undocumented migrants"
Jack Jackson
>same resolution in IR as an 8 inch telescope in visible wavelengths.
An 8-inch telescope in the near vacuum of space would produce astonishingly wonderful images.
John Wilson
>space spics
Jaxon White
Kek... I can't type anything without a tyop or two.
Parker Mitchell
I would think camera tech between 1990-hubble and 2021-james webb
Would be a good amount.
You trying to tell me 30 years of camera tech meant almost nothing?
Blake Bailey
WTF is it with you idiots and Jews?
You're fucking obsessed.
Joseph Howard
OK I've been drinking so I probably wasn't the clearest.
Astronomical observations have been done in wavelengths other than visible light for many years. Ultraviolet, infrared, microwave, etc. But the data that is observed -- even though it isn't visible to the naked eye -- can still be represented via a "false color" image. There's a pic of a science chick viewing one of these of a black hole even though it gives off no visible light.
So what I'm saying is whatever data that the JWST collects, it will be converted into the pretty pics that the public craves and they'll only know the difference if they read the fine print.
Isaac Campbell
>Haven't seen any data
We probably won't see anything until June.
Do you have to inject your cancer into everything?
Kill yourself, sooner than later. You contribute nothing.
Owen Wilson
So let's say it took 25 years to finally get a look back 13 billion years. I say it will probably be worth the wait. Not everything can be resolved within one season of "COPS"