The Webb Team Just Stealthily Dropped a Picture of Jupiter, And We Can't Stop Staring

https://www.sciencealert.com ^ | SCIENCE ALERT STAFF - 13 JULY 2022

[PIF]

Part of the test was ensuring that JWST could track fast-moving objects through the Solar System.

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Like extra-solar ‘objects’ ...

[calljack]

All you base are belong to us?

[cgbg]

The Webb project seems to be surrounded by a lot of carnival barkers....

[dragnet2]

Potty talk! Very clever.

[NorthMountain]

The Hubble pictures of Saturn are indeed spectacular.

For those who don’t know:

Hubble is a primarily visible light instrument. It is sensitive from 100nm to 1800 nm (.1 to 1.8 micron), or ultraviolet through near infrared. Webb is an infrared instrument. It’s sensitivity is from .6 micron through 28 micron, or orange through very far infrared. JWST covers a vastly wider, and in some ways scientifically more interesting spectral range than Hubble.

[Fido969]

They looked at the pictures from Jupiter, and immediately called the cops!

[MinorityRepublican]

So where’s Carl Sagan?

[SamAdams76]

Is this just a coincidence or is there some sort of cosmic connection?

[Red Badger]

Yes, I saw that!..........................

[central_va]

I wish I was young enough to train to be a space explorer and planet settler.

Physically impossible. The closet star is 4 LY away. No human will ever get near it.

[NorthMountain]

better pictures of Jupiter from the JUNO spacecraft

You did not see better pictures of deep space from the JUNO spacecraft.

Juno is orbiting Jupiter, and was built for the sole purpose of studying Jupiter. Webb is orbiting Earth (sort of) and was built for studying deep space. The Jupiter and other planetary pictures are bonus, and captured largely for engineering purposes.

[dgbrown]

i want them to stare at Uranus..
And do what? Look for Klingons?

Looks like a black hole to me.

[Flick Lives]

But if you thought that was wild, then wait for this: it turns out JWST has also dropped some stealthy images of Jupiter! And they’re ridiculously beautiful.

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Is every article being written by a millennial who’s affecting 1980’s Valley Girl speak?

[Ezekiel]

Is this just a coincidence or is there some sort of cosmic connection?

You chal see.

[NorthMountain]

If Oumuamua's brother ever shows up, we're definitely going to want a better picture than this:

[PIF]

Oh good I wondered what happened to that image. No one ever mentioned it after it first appeared or later that there where two, not one, extra-solar objects at the same time.

Then there was the ‘comet’ that appeared to little fanfare then disappeared from the news.

Three objects in a short period is not a coincidence - perhaps these ‘objects regularly pass through our system, but only now we have the tech to locate and photograph them.

The question could be: how many enter but do not leave?

[Boomer]

That’s why we need to invent the warp drive that’s 100 times faster than the speed of light. ;)

[Ezekiel]

The Webb Team Just Stealthily Dropped a Picture of Jupiter, And We Can't Stop Staring

We.. the same people who write those ad headlines? What's Webb's "one weird trick"?

[central_va]

Get a life.

[chuckb87]

What is a “stealthily image”?