NASA’s Webb Delivers Deepest Infrared Image of Universe Yet

https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2022/nasa-s-webb-delivers-deepest-infrared-image-of-universe-yet ^ | Jul 11 2022 | Rob Garner- NASA

[PerConPat]

Webb’s image covers a patch of sky approximately the size of a grain of sand held at arm’s length by someone on the ground – and reveals thousands of galaxies in a tiny sliver of vast universe...

[PerConPat]

The ten billion dollar picture...

[conejo99]

JWST might be great but NASA choose an unimpressive first image.

[FlingWingFlyer]

(((YAWN))) I saw the same shot taken from the Hubbell. I’ll pass.

[Jonty30]

It might be more impressive, if we had an understanding how far the images are to us.

[UnwashedPeasant]

Looks blurry and starbursty.

[fella]

A lot of bent images in that photo some without apparent foreground stars to do the bending.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Looks like it was shot through a GoPro.

[coloradan]

The whitish “stars” in the foreground that lack the distinctive star-shaped diffraction patterns are actually galaxies 4 billion LY away, and they are the benders. The dimmer galaxies behind are much farther away (and some are the bendees).

[UnwashedPeasant]

Hubble image of the same area:

https://bigthink.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/smacs0723-73.jpg

[thegagline]

Kamala Harris said, “You can actually see the craters in the moon with you own eyes.”

[aMorePerfectUnion]

[UnwashedPeasant]

Webb-Hubble composite image: http://www.nasa.gov/webb-hubble-mutation

[BitWielder1]

Because they take the sharpest images ever made and enlarge them until they turn blurry again.

[Jamestown1630]

“To see a World in a Grain of Sand

And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,

Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand

And Eternity in an hour.”

― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

[Dennis M.]

There is a lot of gravitational lens distortion of the background starts. Also there is quite a bit of red shift. It is an impressive picture.

[freespirit2012]

Lol.. does that say Trump Won?

[aMorePerfectUnion]

😁

[frank ballenger]

Kamala Harris said, “You can actually see the craters in the moon with you own eyes.”

Impressive.

I heard if you look into one of her ears you can see all the way through to the other side of the room out the other ear.

[Rebelbase]

Wow! The quality between the Hubble photo and this new one is like the difference between a 1970s Kodak pocket camera and a 4K digital camera.

[Pollard]

I think it’s the same pic from the box of a cheap telescope we bought our son 15 years ago.