James Webb Space Telescope

I’ve started watching the countdown until the first images

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Launch - NASA Science

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Harpo said:
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Launch - NASA Science

Webb Launch Slideshow The image below is a SLIDESHOW. Hover over the image to reveal the controls and see the image titles. Click the image to go to a Flickr detail page with more info and the ability to download the image at various resolutions (lower right down arrow). View the entire...
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That is hilarious.
 
www.newscientist.com

How the James Webb Space Telescope's first colour images were made

Joseph DePasquale, the lead image processor for the James Webb Space Telescope, says seeing its first colour picture was an "overwhelming" experience
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Later today, President Joe Biden will unveil the first full-colour image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) – with a batch of additional images set for release tomorrow. We know the first image is called “Webb’s First Deep Field” and will provide us with the deepest and highest resolution image of the universe yet captured. Tomorrow’s release will include a view of the spectacular Carina Nebula and a distant group of galaxies known as Stephan’s Quintet.
 
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I've been having this thought that the JWST is the kind of thing that we could have read about in SF stories. One race working to detect another with deep space instruments. I'm absolutely gob-smacked with this level of tech. I wouldn't have thought that we could pull it off.
 
It reminds me of the Total Perspective Vortex machine in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:

The machine was originally created by its inventor Trin Tragula as a way to get back at his wife. She was always telling him to get a "sense of proportion," so he showed her the Vortex. Tragula was horrified to learn he had destroyed her mind, even as he proved his point that if life was going to live in such a vast Universe, one thing it could not afford to have was a sense of perspective.

The Vortex is now used as a torture and (in effect) killing device on the planet Frogstar B. The prospective victim of the TPV is placed within a small chamber wherein is displayed a model of the entire universe - together with a microscopic dot on a microscopic dot bearing the legend "you are here." The sense of perspective thereby conveyed destroys the victim's mind....
 
Christine Wheelwright said:
It reminds me of the Total Perspective Vortex machine in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:

The machine was originally created by its inventor Trin Tragula as a way to get back at his wife. She was always telling him to get a "sense of proportion," so he showed her the Vortex. Tragula was horrified to learn he had destroyed her mind, even as he proved his point that if life was going to live in such a vast Universe, one thing it could not afford to have was a sense of perspective.

The Vortex is now used as a torture and (in effect) killing device on the planet Frogstar B. The prospective victim of the TPV is placed within a small chamber wherein is displayed a model of the entire universe - together with a microscopic dot on a microscopic dot bearing the legend "you are here." The sense of perspective thereby conveyed destroys the victim's mind....
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I felt exactly the same thing. Pictures like that really put us in our place when it comes to the human race's significance in the grand scheme on things.
 
That amazing rectangle of stars at the base of the 'third' pillar! Wow!!
 
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