Posted on 04/29/2022 6:43:17 AM PDT by zeestephen
The optical performance of the telescope continues to be better than the engineering team's most optimistic predictions...Now, the Webb team will turn its attention to science instrument commissioning...This process will take about two months before scientific operations begin in the summer.
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You should see the pics from the camera I just installed in the garage. Even when all the lights are out it’s pretty good. :>}
BFL
WOW! Look at all those worlds, floating around in a turbulent “sea” of constantly changing time, space, gravity and only God knows what all!
and what am I looking at? they all look the same...black with whit/orange/redish looking dots...
You’re looking at Webb photos of known, previously photographed areas of the universe. These and those earlier photos will be compared to verify and measure improved resolution.
Nice to see its finally working.
As far as I know, everything they have tested so far is working at specification or higher.
I can remember when the repaired Hubble telescope knocked our socks off with some of its first perfectly focused false color images.
That was 1993 according to Wiki.
I’m expecting some ‘jaw-dropping’ discoveries from this instrument.
JWST uses an infrared camera. It won’t show in our normal eyed “color” spectrum.
However, the infrared picture will see things that go far beyond what we can see in normal light and give us data that can be manipulated/extrapolated into color pictures that should stun us.
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