A lil disappointing for those of us nerdy enough to check the thread for actual, you know, astronomical updates.
How the James Webb Space Telescope beat all expectations https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/james-webb-space-telescope-expectations/
Far out! Literally and figuratively. Truly an amazing accomplishment. This incredibly complicated massive telescope, with countless ways it could have failed, not only works, but is just at the beginning a many years long mission that will bring us scientific discoveries that'll blow our minds. Bravo!
This Fine Guidance Sensor test image was acquired in parallel with NIRCam imaging of the star HD147980 over a period of eight days at the beginning of May. This engineering image represents a total of 32 hours of exposure time at several overlapping pointings of the Guider 2 channel. The observations were not optimized for detection of faint objects, but nevertheless the image captures extremely faint objects and is, for now, the deepest image of the infrared sky. The unfiltered wavelength response of the guider, from 0.6 to 5 micrometers, helps provide this extreme sensitivity. The image is mono-chromatic and is displayed in false color with white-yellow-orange-red representing the progression from brightest to dimmest. The bright star (at 9.3 magnitude) on the right hand edge is 2MASS 16235798+2826079. There are only a handful of stars in this image – distinguished by their diffraction spikes. The rest of the objects are thousands of faint galaxies, some in the nearby universe, but many, many more in the distant universe. Credit: NASA, CSA, and FGS team. ______ Soon.
President Biden will share the Webb Telescope's first image today https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/11/world/james-webb-space-telescope-first-image-scn/index.html
Looking forward to seeing how Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Bobert spin this into something having to do with taking away your freedoms and Satan.
1st images of James Webb telescope when pointed at earth to see if Hunter's laptop is real thing or not...