Poetical Poltergeist
Precise and cold hearted
I wanna see something dope. I can wait a few more days.
the deepest view of the universe in infrared light to date
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Marco Zen
Black Privilege
We will never, ever , EVER find life out there in the universe... NEVER
I'm not saying there isn't life out there. Maybe. Maybe not.. I'm saying WE (Humans) will never find it..
We can barely send shyt to Mars without it crashing and it still takes like 5 years..
Our next door solar system, it would take 75,000 fukkin years to get there... and that's not including all the dangerous space shyt we'd have to fly through to even get there
We will never, as in ever, find life out there.
I'm not saying there isn't life out there. Maybe. Maybe not.. I'm saying WE (Humans) will never find it..
We can barely send shyt to Mars without it crashing and it still takes like 5 years..
Our next door solar system, it would take 75,000 fukkin years to get there... and that's not including all the dangerous space shyt we'd have to fly through to even get there
We will never, as in ever, find life out there.
levitate
I love you, you know.
The initial pictures are already processed and ready to go! The researchers have been looking at them saying it brings them to tears and shyt. They are going to release them in a fukking July 12 press conference. Just tweet the pictures that are ready to be released what year is this 1922???
MischievousMonkey
Gor bu dëgër
So NASA?
Still waiting for my mind to break wide open
MischievousMonkey
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2022/07/11/nasa-james-webb-space-telescope-images/
Updated July 12, 2022 at 11:30 a.m. EDT|Published July 11, 2022 at 4:28 p.m. EDT
NASA on Tuesday released the first set of full-color images and data obtained by the revolutionary $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope, which so far has shown itself far more powerful, and able to see further into the depths of space and time, than the acclaimed Hubble.
Hundreds of people — scientists, engineers, members of Congress — gathered in an auditorium at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., for the big reveal. It was a spirited scene, replete with Goddard interns waving pom-poms and cheering as VIPs entered the room.
The Webb project has been a long and difficult journey filled with hazards, but it has produced spectacular images that the space agency and its international partners are eager to share with the world.
“The fact that it worked pretty much perfect, is totally amazing,” project manager Bill Ochs said prior to the start of the ceremony. “I always expected to have a few little gotchas — things that come and along and bite you.”
But nothing bit. All the things that can go wrong with a complex mission like this are just old news at this point, systems engineer Mike Menzel said as he awaited the release of the new imagery.
“The new news is that the telescope right now is performing twice as good as we expected,” Menzel said.
NASA on Friday identified the five initial “targets” of the Webb:
Two cameras aboard Webb captured the latest image of this planetary nebula, cataloged as NGC 3132, and known informally as the Southern Ring Nebula. It is approximately 2,500 light-years away. (NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI)
This image provided by NASA on Tuesday, July 12, 2022, shows Stephan's Quintet, a visual grouping of five galaxies, as observed from the Webb Telescope. This mosaic was constructed from almost 1,000 separate image files, according to NASA. (NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI via AP)
The "Cosmic Cliffs" of the Carina Nebula is seen in an image divided horizontally by an undulating line between a cloudscape forming a nebula along the bottom portion and a comparatively clear upper portion, with data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, a revolutionary apparatus designed to peer through the cosmos to the dawn of the universe and released July 12, 2022. Speckled across both portions is a starfield, showing innumerable stars of many sizes. NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO Production Team/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. (Nasa/Via Reuters)
SMACS 0723, a cluster of galaxies that functions as a massive lens, magnifying the extremely faint and cosmically distant objects behind it. (NASA via Getty Images)
The latter image was revealed Monday in a White House ceremony by President Biden and top NASA officials, and it was a doozy, capturing the faint light of galaxies forming in the infancy of the cosmos.
“We’re looking back more than 13 billion years,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said at the White House event. “Light travels at 186,000 miles per second, and that light that you are seeing from one of those little specks, has been traveling for over 13 billion years.”
He added: “And by the way, we’re going back further. Because this is just the first image. … We’re going back almost to the beginning.”
The new image is what is known as a “deep field” observation, with the telescope staring at what NASA called a “patch of sky approximately the size of a grain of sand held at arm’s length by someone on the ground.”
Outer space when viewed like this looks incredibly crowded — not so very spacious at all. What the Webb sees through this pinhole examination of the cosmic darkness is a hornet’s nest of brilliant but enigmatic objects in many colors. A smattering of stars have parked themselves in the foreground, but everything else is a galaxy — a vast agglomeration of stars, rendered into a small splash of light by the immense distances involved.
Strikingly, the lensing effect has distorted some of the distant galaxies in the background, making them appear stretched and manipulated, as if made of Play-Doh.
“It’s astounding,” Biden said, expressing awe at the sight of “the oldest documented light in the history of the universe — from over 13 billion — let me say it again — over 13 billion years ago.”
The White House described the image as the “highest-resolution images of the infrared universe ever captured.” The Webb is designed to observe in the infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, gathering light at wavelengths inaccessible to the acclaimed Hubble telescope.
President Biden talks with NASA leaders as the first full-color image from the Webb Space Telescope is revealed at the White House on July 11. (Tom Brenner for The Washington Post)
NASA and its partners, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency, have been keeping a close hold on the first Webb images during the initial sequence of observations as the telescope, launched last Christmas, orbits the sun roughly a million miles from Earth. NASA has previously released a few testing-phase images of the telescope — thrilling astronomers with their clarity — but has described the images being released Monday and Tuesday as the first full-color images.
The astronomical community is buzzing with excitement, awaiting what it believes will be revolutionary views of the universe across cosmic distances and with unrivaled resolution. The Webb promises to study planets that orbit distant stars, looking for signs of possible habitability — such as the presence of an atmosphere similar to Earth’s.
“You’re going to see whether or not planets, because of the chemical composition that we can determine with this telescope, of their atmosphere, if those planets are habitable,” Nelson said.
The telescope — conceived as the successor to the still-operational Hubble — “has capabilities that far surpass my most optimistic dreams,” Garth Illingworth, an astronomer at the University of California at Santa Cruz who in the late 1980s was instrumental in developing plans for an infrared space telescope, wrote in an email to fellow astronomers Monday. “The capabilities of Webb are truly out of this world.”
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will open a new window on the cosmos — if everything goes just right
The initial deep look into the universe by the Webb is just a taste of what is to come, said planetary astronomer Heidi Hammel, who is among the scientists scheduled to use the Webb in coming months. Hammel described the initial deep look unveiled Monday as “proof of concept … whetting our appetite for the record-breaking results we now know will come from this exceptional facility.”
Regardless of whatever wow factor is generated by the new images, the significant fact is that the Webb works. This was never a slam-dunk mission. The telescope was repeatedly delayed, and its price tag soared. At one point, Congress nearly killed the project. For many years, it was unclear whether the Webb would get off the ground, literally.
Using a crane, technicians lift the mirror of the Webb Space Telescope at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., in April 2017. (Laura Betz/NASA/AP)
The ambitious scientific goals set out by NASA and its partners required a revolutionary design. The scientists who in the 1980s began advocating what was originally called the Next Generation Space Telescope argued that an infrared space observatory would be able to peer deeper into the universe — and further back in time, to an era roughly a few hundred million years after the big bang. That’s when the first stars ignited and starlight flooded the young universe.
The telescope — or the “observatory,” as scientists often call it — features 18 gold-plated, hexagonal, individually maneuverable mirrors that function like a single mirror about 21 feet across. This giant light bucket is not inside a protective tube but rather is open to the universe like a flower.
The mirrors, cameras and other instruments that need to be kept ultracold for infrared astronomy are protected from the sun’s radiation by a five-layered, tennis-court-sized sun shield. The sun shield and many other components, including the mirrors, were folded up at launch and had to be deployed during the telescope’s nearly month-long journey to its orbital post.
NASA unveils first images from James Webb Space Telescope
By Joel AchenbachUpdated July 12, 2022 at 11:30 a.m. EDT|Published July 11, 2022 at 4:28 p.m. EDT
NASA on Tuesday released the first set of full-color images and data obtained by the revolutionary $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope, which so far has shown itself far more powerful, and able to see further into the depths of space and time, than the acclaimed Hubble.
Hundreds of people — scientists, engineers, members of Congress — gathered in an auditorium at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., for the big reveal. It was a spirited scene, replete with Goddard interns waving pom-poms and cheering as VIPs entered the room.
The Webb project has been a long and difficult journey filled with hazards, but it has produced spectacular images that the space agency and its international partners are eager to share with the world.
“The fact that it worked pretty much perfect, is totally amazing,” project manager Bill Ochs said prior to the start of the ceremony. “I always expected to have a few little gotchas — things that come and along and bite you.”
But nothing bit. All the things that can go wrong with a complex mission like this are just old news at this point, systems engineer Mike Menzel said as he awaited the release of the new imagery.
“The new news is that the telescope right now is performing twice as good as we expected,” Menzel said.
NASA on Friday identified the five initial “targets” of the Webb:
Wasp-96 b
This is a giant planet, maybe half the size of Jupiter, that circles a star 1,150 light-years from Earth. The planet is too close to the brilliant star to be resolved as an individual object, but an instrument on the telescope has obtained the spectra of the planet, a scientifically important feat because it can reveal the composition of the planet’s atmosphere.
Southern Ring Nebula
Located about 2,000 light-years away, the nebula is a gas cloud surrounding a dying star.
Two cameras aboard Webb captured the latest image of this planetary nebula, cataloged as NGC 3132, and known informally as the Southern Ring Nebula. It is approximately 2,500 light-years away. (NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI)
Stephan’s Quintet
Five beguiling galaxies, four of them in a cluster about 290 million light-years away, in the constellation Pegasus. The quintet has been previously observed by the Hubble, and the new image will allow a side-by-side comparison of what the two space telescopes see as they gather light in different wavelengths.
This image provided by NASA on Tuesday, July 12, 2022, shows Stephan's Quintet, a visual grouping of five galaxies, as observed from the Webb Telescope. This mosaic was constructed from almost 1,000 separate image files, according to NASA. (NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI via AP)
Carina Nebula
The nebula is packed with stars, including the ultraluminous star system Eta Carinae. Situated roughly 7,500 light-years from Earth, within our own Milky Way galaxy, the nebula is visible from the Southern Hemisphere.
The "Cosmic Cliffs" of the Carina Nebula is seen in an image divided horizontally by an undulating line between a cloudscape forming a nebula along the bottom portion and a comparatively clear upper portion, with data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, a revolutionary apparatus designed to peer through the cosmos to the dawn of the universe and released July 12, 2022. Speckled across both portions is a starfield, showing innumerable stars of many sizes. NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO Production Team/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. (Nasa/Via Reuters)
SMACS 0723
The deepest look. The image shows a cluster of galaxies, called SMACS 0723, that functions as a massive lens, magnifying the extremely faint and cosmically distant objects behind it.
SMACS 0723, a cluster of galaxies that functions as a massive lens, magnifying the extremely faint and cosmically distant objects behind it. (NASA via Getty Images)
The latter image was revealed Monday in a White House ceremony by President Biden and top NASA officials, and it was a doozy, capturing the faint light of galaxies forming in the infancy of the cosmos.
“We’re looking back more than 13 billion years,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said at the White House event. “Light travels at 186,000 miles per second, and that light that you are seeing from one of those little specks, has been traveling for over 13 billion years.”
He added: “And by the way, we’re going back further. Because this is just the first image. … We’re going back almost to the beginning.”
The new image is what is known as a “deep field” observation, with the telescope staring at what NASA called a “patch of sky approximately the size of a grain of sand held at arm’s length by someone on the ground.”
Outer space when viewed like this looks incredibly crowded — not so very spacious at all. What the Webb sees through this pinhole examination of the cosmic darkness is a hornet’s nest of brilliant but enigmatic objects in many colors. A smattering of stars have parked themselves in the foreground, but everything else is a galaxy — a vast agglomeration of stars, rendered into a small splash of light by the immense distances involved.
Strikingly, the lensing effect has distorted some of the distant galaxies in the background, making them appear stretched and manipulated, as if made of Play-Doh.
“It’s astounding,” Biden said, expressing awe at the sight of “the oldest documented light in the history of the universe — from over 13 billion — let me say it again — over 13 billion years ago.”
The White House described the image as the “highest-resolution images of the infrared universe ever captured.” The Webb is designed to observe in the infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, gathering light at wavelengths inaccessible to the acclaimed Hubble telescope.
President Biden talks with NASA leaders as the first full-color image from the Webb Space Telescope is revealed at the White House on July 11. (Tom Brenner for The Washington Post)
NASA and its partners, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency, have been keeping a close hold on the first Webb images during the initial sequence of observations as the telescope, launched last Christmas, orbits the sun roughly a million miles from Earth. NASA has previously released a few testing-phase images of the telescope — thrilling astronomers with their clarity — but has described the images being released Monday and Tuesday as the first full-color images.
The astronomical community is buzzing with excitement, awaiting what it believes will be revolutionary views of the universe across cosmic distances and with unrivaled resolution. The Webb promises to study planets that orbit distant stars, looking for signs of possible habitability — such as the presence of an atmosphere similar to Earth’s.
“You’re going to see whether or not planets, because of the chemical composition that we can determine with this telescope, of their atmosphere, if those planets are habitable,” Nelson said.
The telescope — conceived as the successor to the still-operational Hubble — “has capabilities that far surpass my most optimistic dreams,” Garth Illingworth, an astronomer at the University of California at Santa Cruz who in the late 1980s was instrumental in developing plans for an infrared space telescope, wrote in an email to fellow astronomers Monday. “The capabilities of Webb are truly out of this world.”
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will open a new window on the cosmos — if everything goes just right
The initial deep look into the universe by the Webb is just a taste of what is to come, said planetary astronomer Heidi Hammel, who is among the scientists scheduled to use the Webb in coming months. Hammel described the initial deep look unveiled Monday as “proof of concept … whetting our appetite for the record-breaking results we now know will come from this exceptional facility.”
Regardless of whatever wow factor is generated by the new images, the significant fact is that the Webb works. This was never a slam-dunk mission. The telescope was repeatedly delayed, and its price tag soared. At one point, Congress nearly killed the project. For many years, it was unclear whether the Webb would get off the ground, literally.
Using a crane, technicians lift the mirror of the Webb Space Telescope at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., in April 2017. (Laura Betz/NASA/AP)
The ambitious scientific goals set out by NASA and its partners required a revolutionary design. The scientists who in the 1980s began advocating what was originally called the Next Generation Space Telescope argued that an infrared space observatory would be able to peer deeper into the universe — and further back in time, to an era roughly a few hundred million years after the big bang. That’s when the first stars ignited and starlight flooded the young universe.
The telescope — or the “observatory,” as scientists often call it — features 18 gold-plated, hexagonal, individually maneuverable mirrors that function like a single mirror about 21 feet across. This giant light bucket is not inside a protective tube but rather is open to the universe like a flower.
The mirrors, cameras and other instruments that need to be kept ultracold for infrared astronomy are protected from the sun’s radiation by a five-layered, tennis-court-sized sun shield. The sun shield and many other components, including the mirrors, were folded up at launch and had to be deployed during the telescope’s nearly month-long journey to its orbital post.
MischievousMonkey
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See this is why you shouldn't hype shyt up Nasa acting like Rockstar
Pun intended
Nasa acting like RockstarPun intended