Stunning New Images From The James Webb Space Telescope
Now that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) alignment has been completed, the images being captured are absolutely stunning. The alignment involves all four major instruments, working together to produce some of the clearest photos yet of the universe.
To test Webb’s alignment, the JWST was pointed at a “small section of a small satellite galaxy near the Milky Way called the Large Magellanic Cloud, giving us a dense sea of stars” for Webb to work with.
The four major components each have a unique duty, which allows the Webb to measure their unique physical properties unlike anything seen or done before.
The video explains how each component works, and why they’re all important. The Webb can peer back in time to the origins of the universe, staring for hundreds of hours at a single spot in space to absorb as much light and spectral radiation as possible.
Webb gives the highest resolution possible given the size of the telescope. According to Scott Acton, the Webb wavefront sensing and controls scientist, “These images have profoundly changed the way I see the universe. We are surrounded by a symphony of creation; there are galaxies everywhere! It is my hope that everyone in the world can see them.”
h/t Joe O.
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T. C. Clark
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Waiting….waiting….I still see no stunning images…maybe next time?
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Alcheminister
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IKR? I mean…what exactly about those images is supposed to be so “stunning”? Looks like random meaningless shit I can make in even 30 year old software in like 10 minutes.
But then again, obviously fake “authentic” NASA or SpaceX footage is called “amazing”. Amazingly fake BS, that is.
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Purple Helmet
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How come all the stars have five points? Looks bogus.
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Alcheminister
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Maybe you meant six (major) points? There are a number of potential explanations (anything from fake shit to equipment “peculiarities” or limits and geometric symmetry).
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karlito
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wow, truly amazing… more bright dots in the sky 😛
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Tom O
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So, what exactly is the “pixel rating” on these astounding pictures? To get the “pretended” definition of photos that can capture the image of a planet, say, passing between us and its star at 200 light years away would require a resolution so huge that it would take a super computer to compile the picture, and might take months to do so, of a spot in the night sky. Anything that shows me a resolution that resolve anything like that is showing me a computer interpolation and interpretation, not a “picture.” Another case of “modeling” based on guess work pretending to be reality.
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Glenn
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This image of stars in the LMC is interesting for what I don’t see. All those expected gravitational lensing rings swamping the image. Can someone explain that to me?
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nonstopca
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He believes in the BIG BANG THEORY, which in my mind puts every thing he says …in the suspicious column…
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Tom
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Could be a splke protein.
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