Posted on 07/13/2022 9:00:43 AM PDT by Red Badger
Great book.
I like this older picture much better.
It's the one that "astronomers don't want you to know about."
"Especially for seniors born before 1952!"
Regards,
NASA released an "artist's representation" of Oumuamua, and Big Media being the idiots they are ran with it at the expense of a real, bun not spectacular, photograph.
A Faint Fuzzy Danger ... interesting piece of science fiction.
“Potty talk! Very clever.”
Who knows what a bureaucracy will put forth. Maybe those are pictures of someone’s anus in infra-red.
The writers of that article are an insult to science. Examples:
“Just stealthily dropped a picture of Jupiter”
“And we can’t stop staring”.
Surprised they didn’t say “you can’t un-see that”.
You have to realize that these Webb pics are THERMO-GRAPHS not PHOTO-GRAPHS...............
The image on the right, monkey pox?
Good point ... I think people don’t fully understand that JWST is an infrared instrument, and its images will look very different from Hubble.
OTOH, from DC to gamma rays, it’s all photons. MIRI uses a helium cooled doped-silicon focal plane array, the others all use MCT FPAs. They’re photon counting devices, fundamentally the same as your pocket camera.
One thing I observed yesterday while watching the NASA presentation.
The same guy producing the Jan. 6 hearings must’ve done the big NASA show yesterday, too. It wasn’t a very smooth presentation- stiff speakers, there were two ladies from Canada who they went to for something, but their audio wasn’t working so they cut their feed, and didn’t go back to them, either.
A) I do not trust Wiki for much of anything - certainly not history or any controversial subjects.
B) At the time there were 2 raw images released - one of which was labeled Oumuamua, the other is the one on Wiki mislabeled as Oumuamua.
3) They were both imaged with different star backgrounds and different courses. So different ‘objects’.
Or brown.
When it comes to science threads on this site, I'm always amazed that it seems to attract all those obsessed with assholes.
Different objects, or same object imaged at different times? As the thing moved through the solar system, it would necessarily have different starfields behind it.
Jupiter
It’s a gas gas gas
Poppy Seeds..................
Regrettably, science threads attract the attention of people too damn stupid to understand the science. In order to compensate for their inadequacies, they resort to puerile “jokes”.
Yep...
“You have to realize that these Webb pics are THERMO-GRAPHS not PHOTO-GRAPHS...............”
I know that, but they’re not what one would call “beautiful”.
A couple of thoughts ...
Oumuamua was imaged at different times by different telescopes. Those will all have different backgrounds. I don’t personally recall talk of a second object about that time, but I’m not saying there wasn’t one. I just don’t remember it.
That blasted CGI space-turd annoys me a whole lot more. It adds absolutely NOTHING to the discussion, reduces the credibility of the Astronomy community, and distracts from real imagery. And the internet is absolutely flooded with it.
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