[Red Badger]

PING!.....................

[Jim W N]

No, seven years of the darkest days ever known to man are about to begin (a few decades away IMO), in the revived Roman Empire and the “beast”.

[TangoLimaSierra]

...the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

WTF?

[Steely Tom]

Since (the sum of) dark matter and dark energy supposedly makes up 99.5% of the universe, and since we NASA just sent the JWST on an exquisitely calculated trajectory up a gravitational mountainside to a precise rendezvous with a point at which it will orbit around an incredibly subtle gravitational potential well, I have this question: did NASA account for dark matter in their calculation of the orbital mechanics in setting up this trajectory, and in adjusting it with mid-course correction burns MCC-1a and MCC-1b?

If they did, how much effect did it have?

If they didn't, why not?

And if they didn't, why am I supposed to believe that the matter in our immediate vicinity, out to a distance of one million miles at least, is devoid of the effects of "matter" that's supposed to make up 200 times more mass than the earth, moon, and sun?

[Not_Who_U_Think]

Amazing stuff, and we are so lucky to be alive during this time of discovery.

They seem to be convinced there is a beginning that they can almost see, what they call the “Big Bang”. What if there’s not? So far, every improvement in resolution we gain has just shown more distant galaxies.

It’s turtles all the way down!

[OrioleFan]

"designed to unravel the secrets of dark energy and dark matter"

So it's going to look into the Pelosi family stock trades?

[I want the USA back]

If they can see 13 billion years back in time, and if the universe has been expanding from the size of a pea all that time, then why don’t those distant galaxies appear close to us?

[justme4now]

Heck, I’ve always wanted to know if there is such a thing as up and down in the universe!

Can they tell by looking through these telescopes(?) if planets, moons and galaxies are floating in a great void or falling?

If everything is falling, where are they falling to?
If not falling, why not?

I suspect that if everything is falling,they are all falling at the same rate so there is no frame of reference, thus no way to tell!

Oh well!

[SuperLuminal]

More wonderful propaganda (that embraces every hot-button astrophysical word) to keep those big bucks flowing and careers on a bountiful 20-year career-track until retirement...