[Red Badger]

WEBB TELESCOPE PING!................

[Red Badger]

[beethovenfan]

The heavens declare the glory of God......

[WMarshal]

With Web. The brighter stars look like snowflakes of light. Dry cool.

[z3n]

What’s up with the lens flaring though? They all look like 8 pointed snowflakes. I’m sure this has to do with the optics, no? Is that not something you can overcome? /abovemypaygrade

[Have Ruck - Will Travel]

SO freakin cool!

[MtnClimber]

Thanks for the ping. Can’t wait to see some of the deep space images.

[Huskrrrr]

Web PING please

[EvilCapitalist]

“Test images hint at new possibilities for science.” What’s this telescope going to do? Give a better close-up of Uranus?

[oldplayer]

These space telescopes are incredibly expensive and delicate (although to date they have worked consistently well).

BUT, as opposed to most of the money our government flitters away on useless stuff or projects for cronies, I feel like this is worth it. Just my own opinion.

[Ken522]

Why not do a side-by-side of Hubble image vs Webb image? The Spitzer objective was MUCH smaller than even Hubble objective ...

[SunkenCiv]

I was overjoyed (and pleasantly surprised) when the Ariane managed to get the JW into space.

[Born in 1950]

Cool, but what is ended up with is more of the same. More resolved stars just farther away, more blurry stars just farther away.

Again: Cool. I'm amazed.

[xp38]

[Diogenesis]

RECONCILE:

highest classification

[M Kehoe]

That’s a wow.

5.56mm

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Just astonishing, isn't it? Makes you wonder how much better we can get at these telescopes and instruments.

I'd never heard of "satellite galaxies" before and had no idea these existed. It's breathtaking to think that orbital mechanics are at work at the galaxy scale. Wiki -->

A satellite galaxy is a smaller companion galaxy that travels on bound orbits within the gravitational potential of a more massive and luminous host galaxy (also known as the primary galaxy). Satellite galaxies and their constituents are bound to their host galaxy, in the same way that planets within our own solar system are gravitationally bound to the Sun. While most satellite galaxies are dwarf galaxies, satellite galaxies of large galaxy clusters can be much more massive. The Milky Way is orbited by about fifty satellite galaxies, the largest of which is the Large Magellanic Cloud.

The orbital period of the satellite galaxies is from 10⁹ to 10¹⁰ years.

Below: Discovery of Milky Way satellite galaxies in the past 100 years. Imagine how this is going to change with the JW Telescope!

[cuz1961]

Good deal.

Now can we turn it earthward and find the following

1.
Two functioning TalyBiden brain cells

2.
Kampala harris’ virtue

3.
Progressives Morality

4.
Non antifa/groomer teachers

5.
The DGB defunition of disinformation

6
The other 40 billion we gave (saul)Insky/Ukraine before the latest 600 billion

7
Bill barr’s
Judas Pense’s
FBI’s
DOJ’s
DHS’s
Integrity

8.
Honest secure elections.

9
USA.

10
Justice

[E. Pluribus Unum]

https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/05/09/miris-sharper-view-hints-at-new-possibilities-for-science/

[FLT-bird]

WOW! The difference is incredible. I’d been waiting for that sucker to launch for years and years. Now we finally have it up and working.