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NASA’s Webb Takes Its First-Ever Direct Image of Distant World
NASA ^ | September 1, 2022 | Alise Fisher

Posted on 09/01/2022 12:44:00 PM PDT by Red Badger

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1 posted on 09/01/2022 12:44:00 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: SunkenCiv; MtnClimber

Webb X-O Planet Ping!..................


2 posted on 09/01/2022 12:44:44 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

It looks hot. Possibly a class Y (Demon planet).

Going to need abestos suits for that one.


3 posted on 09/01/2022 12:55:36 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Red Badger

We need a bigger telescope. The images are blurry.


4 posted on 09/01/2022 12:57:48 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: DannyTN

Being 6-12 times the mass of JUPITER you would be crushed by its gravity...............


5 posted on 09/01/2022 12:59:02 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Almost as big as a brown dwarf and newly formed—it’s glowing in more than just infrared.


6 posted on 09/01/2022 1:00:32 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Red Badger

Thanks for the ping. What people should realize is that none of these colors are “real”. The Webb Infrared telescope and camera capture long wavelengths in the infrared spectrum that the human eye cannot see. These long wavelengths are less blocked by dust and gas, so they are more accurate images. They get translated into visible spectrum by software. The people crying “fake, fake fake” need to realize that a real photo would look mostly black.


7 posted on 09/01/2022 1:02:33 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Red Badger

The star is 385 light years away from us - couldn’t they find a closer star with a planet around it? Alpha Centauri, maybe?


8 posted on 09/01/2022 1:02:42 PM PDT by Ken522
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To: Ken522

Maybe we could search for intelligent life on Earth (but exclude Washington, D.C.)


9 posted on 09/01/2022 1:06:30 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Ken522

Maybe they didn’t think of that. We should contact them.


10 posted on 09/01/2022 1:31:33 PM PDT by Reynoldo (BurnLootMurder)
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To: Red Badger

With the IR imaging frequencies, can the surface temperature be estimated?


11 posted on 09/01/2022 1:43:55 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (Let's go Brandon)
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To: Ken522

Talos 5 is right around the corner. There’s a hot chick in a menagerie there


12 posted on 09/01/2022 2:07:16 PM PDT by atc23 (The Matriarchal Society we embrace has led to masks and mandates and the cult of "safety")
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To: Red Badger

These look remarkably like Halton Arp’s photos of Quasars associated with galaxies, an observation which overturns virtually all of academic cosmology by refuting the red shift hypothesis for variance in observed spectra of the quasars versus their companion galaxies.

For example, all the distances, relative velocities and computed masses of distant objects are WRONG.

Oops.

And no more “Dark matter” either. Bogus as the Steele dossier.


13 posted on 09/01/2022 2:13:54 PM PDT by Disestablishmentarian (The next war has already started. )
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To: Red Badger

Can you add me to your ping list RB?


14 posted on 09/01/2022 2:58:37 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: Red Badger

Better minds than mine are on this but I’d love to see what they could find around proxima centuri. It’s the next nearest star and it’s planets might be resolvable to a better degree than this view.


15 posted on 09/01/2022 3:26:17 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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To: MtnClimber

Maybe we could search for intelligent life on Earth (but exclude Washington, D.C.)
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Washington DC, Chicago, Jackson (Miss), Sacramento, et al, would be classified as exclusionary zones.


16 posted on 09/01/2022 5:39:01 PM PDT by dirtymac ( Now Is The Time For All Good Men To ComeTo The Aid Of Their Country! NOWhx) )
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To: dirtymac; MtnClimber

Terrestrial observations are, unfortunately, occluded by the domestic planetoid Stacey Abrams.


17 posted on 09/01/2022 10:05:56 PM PDT by HKMk23 (https://youtu.be/LTseTg48568)
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To: dirtymac; MtnClimber

Sorry.

I’m not trying to be mean; just having fun at her expanse...


18 posted on 09/01/2022 10:07:10 PM PDT by HKMk23 (https://youtu.be/LTseTg48568)
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To: HKMk23

Ugg. That is not a planetoid. That is an assteroid.


19 posted on 09/02/2022 3:57:49 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Red Badger

gee!! ...what a spectacular view!! Wtf even bother???


20 posted on 09/02/2022 4:11:19 AM PDT by sit-rep ( )
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