| First Official picture from The James Webb Telescope 00:28 - Jul 12 with 1752 views | Bugs |
This is the first official picture from the James Webb telescope.
If you held a grain of rice at arms length, this is about the area of sky this image was taken of. Almost every point of light in this image isn't a star but another galaxy. Literally (in the true sense of the word) trillions of stars.
The streaks of light are made by gravitational lensing. Which is basically light being bent by other galaxies between us and the source of light being a further away galaxy.
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| First Official picture from The James Webb Telescope on 01:00 - Jul 12 with 1695 views | MattinLondon |
I can’t see any spaceships. |  | | |
| First Official picture from The James Webb Telescope on 03:25 - Jul 12 with 1647 views | Illinoisblue |
This is amazing of course but can’t help singing “for mash get smash” |  |
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| First Official picture from The James Webb Telescope on 07:19 - Jul 12 with 1551 views | Steve_M |
It's rather difficult to comprehend just how far away that view stretches but it's a glorious image to start with. |  |
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| First Official picture from The James Webb Telescope on 07:26 - Jul 12 with 1537 views | unbelievablue |
| First Official picture from The James Webb Telescope on 07:19 - Jul 12 by Steve_M |
It's rather difficult to comprehend just how far away that view stretches but it's a glorious image to start with. |
Within 100m years of the Big Bang, potentially. Which is terrifying. |  |
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| First Official picture from The James Webb Telescope on 07:45 - Jul 12 with 1510 views | DanTheMan |
| First Official picture from The James Webb Telescope on 07:26 - Jul 12 by unbelievablue |
Within 100m years of the Big Bang, potentially. Which is terrifying. |
Seeing something that happened billions of years ago is so strange and as you say terrifying in some ways. |  |
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| First Official picture from The James Webb Telescope on 07:50 - Jul 12 with 1500 views | Keno |
OH so thats what James Webb ST meant
I was expecting a picture of some guys Season Ticket |  |
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| First Official picture from The James Webb Telescope on 08:20 - Jul 12 with 1468 views | Swansea_Blue |
| First Official picture from The James Webb Telescope on 07:50 - Jul 12 by Keno |
OH so thats what James Webb ST meant
I was expecting a picture of some guys Season Ticket |
Yep. The ST stands for Space Telescope. And it’s named in honour of Webb, who was one half of both Mitchell and Webb and The Peep Show. |  |
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| First Official picture from The James Webb Telescope on 08:30 - Jul 12 with 1443 views | WeWereZombies |
| First Official picture from The James Webb Telescope on 01:00 - Jul 12 by MattinLondon |
I can’t see any spaceships. |
This is a picture as things were thirteen and a half billion years ago, because light takes that long to reach us. If we could only find a way of speeding up that dawdling light then we would be able to see the current state of things (spaceships queued up at the traffic lights, temporary roadworks sign, geezers sat in their vans eating sandwiches and reading 'The Sun'...) |  |
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| First Official picture from The James Webb Telescope on 08:45 - Jul 12 with 1415 views | Swansea_Blue |
| First Official picture from The James Webb Telescope on 08:30 - Jul 12 by WeWereZombies |
This is a picture as things were thirteen and a half billion years ago, because light takes that long to reach us. If we could only find a way of speeding up that dawdling light then we would be able to see the current state of things (spaceships queued up at the traffic lights, temporary roadworks sign, geezers sat in their vans eating sandwiches and reading 'The Sun'...) |
It mind blowing isn’t it? The cluster of galaxies they’re looking passed is 4.6 billion years away alone. That’s as old as the Earth. And then some of those specks are nearly as old as the universe itself. | |
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| First Official picture from The James Webb Telescope on 08:47 - Jul 12 with 1413 views | Pinewoodblue |
| First Official picture from The James Webb Telescope on 08:30 - Jul 12 by WeWereZombies |
This is a picture as things were thirteen and a half billion years ago, because light takes that long to reach us. If we could only find a way of speeding up that dawdling light then we would be able to see the current state of things (spaceships queued up at the traffic lights, temporary roadworks sign, geezers sat in their vans eating sandwiches and reading 'The Sun'...) |
Unless we live in a 2D universe that statement isn’t correct. Not everything you can see is the same distance away. |  |
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| First Official picture from The James Webb Telescope on 09:05 - Jul 12 with 1390 views | WeWereZombies |
| First Official picture from The James Webb Telescope on 08:47 - Jul 12 by Pinewoodblue |
Unless we live in a 2D universe that statement isn’t correct. Not everything you can see is the same distance away. |
Very true, I am going to reflect upon a tendency to drag everything down to the level below what is on offer now... | |
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| First Official picture from The James Webb Telescope on 09:17 - Jul 12 with 1367 views | Pinewoodblue |
| First Official picture from The James Webb Telescope on 09:05 - Jul 12 by WeWereZombies |
Very true, I am going to reflect upon a tendency to drag everything down to the level below what is on offer now... |
15 years late and $10B
Not sure it is money well spent. It will give us more questions than answers.
https://screenrant.com/james-webb-space-telescope-cost-how-much/ | |
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| First Official picture from The James Webb Telescope on 09:58 - Jul 12 with 1337 views | WeWereZombies |
Interesting, and surprisingly fact filled, rant there - but for comparison (by a factor of seventy), consider the 2007/8 financial crash:
https://www.investopedia.com/insights/too-big-fail-banks-where-are-they-now/
I suspect that the usefulness of the James Webb Space Telescope will far outweigh the benefit (or otherwise if you are of the view that a couple of merchant banks at least should have been let fall) of the banking bail out. | |
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| First Official picture from The James Webb Telescope on 10:19 - Jul 12 with 1303 views | farkenhell |
| First Official picture from The James Webb Telescope on 03:25 - Jul 12 by Illinoisblue |
This is amazing of course but can’t help singing “for mash get smash” |
Brilliant set of adverts for absolutely vile stuff. |  | | |
| First Official picture from The James Webb Telescope on 11:38 - Jul 12 with 1264 views | hoppy |
| First Official picture from The James Webb Telescope on 08:30 - Jul 12 by WeWereZombies |
This is a picture as things were thirteen and a half billion years ago, because light takes that long to reach us. If we could only find a way of speeding up that dawdling light then we would be able to see the current state of things (spaceships queued up at the traffic lights, temporary roadworks sign, geezers sat in their vans eating sandwiches and reading 'The Sun'...) |
And rail replacement buses. Don't forget those. |  |
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| First Official picture from The James Webb Telescope on 11:38 - Jul 12 with 1264 views | unbelievablue |
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| First Official picture from The James Webb Telescope on 11:51 - Jul 12 with 1246 views | Strimmer |
If anyone like me thinks this is cool and doesn't know much about it, I recently worked my way through the books of Carl Sagan on audiobook and its just brilliant. Cosmos is the classic, and pale blue dot. Its hard to comprehend the scale of the cosmos, of light and how long and fast it travels. Kind of peaceful to think about in a way. Puts the question of where goals are going to come from next year into perspective too | |
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| First Official picture from The James Webb Telescope on 12:01 - Jul 12 with 1223 views | Darth_Koont |
| First Official picture from The James Webb Telescope on 07:45 - Jul 12 by DanTheMan |
Seeing something that happened billions of years ago is so strange and as you say terrifying in some ways. |
Amazing indeed. The sheer scale is barely fathomable.
It's also useful to put our local scale into the mix. It would take a rocket with current technology 6 months or so to reach Mars. But 20,000 years to reach our nearest star after the sun ... |  |
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| First Official picture from The James Webb Telescope on 12:07 - Jul 12 with 1214 views | GeoffSentence |
| First Official picture from The James Webb Telescope on 08:20 - Jul 12 by Swansea_Blue |
Yep. The ST stands for Space Telescope. And it’s named in honour of Webb, who was one half of both Mitchell and Webb and The Peep Show. |
Which half? |  |
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| First Official picture from The James Webb Telescope on 12:49 - Jul 12 with 1155 views | ElderGrizzly |
If you squint really well, you can see the McDonalds sign |  | | |
| First Official picture from The James Webb Telescope on 13:55 - Jul 12 with 1080 views | solemio |
| First Official picture from The James Webb Telescope on 12:07 - Jul 12 by GeoffSentence |
Which half? |
Mitchell of course, you stupid boy. | | | |
| First Official picture from The James Webb Telescope on 18:26 - Jul 12 with 976 views | Bugs |
And there's more.
This landscape of “mountains” and “valleys” speckled with glittering stars is actually the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region called NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. Captured in infrared light by NASA’s new James Webb Space Telescope, this image reveals for the first time previously invisible areas of star birth. | | | |
| First Official picture from The James Webb Telescope on 19:26 - Jul 12 with 937 views | Swansea_Blue |
$10B? Pah! That's not even a third of a failed trace and track system that half worked for about a month. Sounds like a bargain.
An incredible amount of work went into this and it's something we can be genuinely proud of in terms of the UK taking a leading global role in the advancement of scientific discovery. UK scientists led the European consortium that designed (and built?) the MIRI sensor/camera. 10 European nations involved and funded from the UK govt science funding, Airbus and the European Space Agency.
We can achieve great things when we work together. | |
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