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To: Ezekiel

I think the JWST ought to take one picture a year of the Cat’s eye nebula in visible light, for however long the telescope is in operation. Each year publish a new animated GIF with the new image added. You’ll be able to see it expand over time. They did that with a few images from Hubble. Wish they’d continued that, and made a much longer sequence. From a science standpoint, you could actually see a lot of interesting details as the streams of gas and stuff expand and interact, so it would have a real purpose in addition to updating the GIF every year.


22 posted on 08/05/2023 11:58:52 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: zeugma

I don’t know how the tech works, but I sure like that idea!


24 posted on 08/05/2023 1:36:58 PM PDT by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with Mars ♂️, aka every man)
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