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here's a sense of scale on the primary mirror on this beautiful bastard.

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i used to be proud of my 11 incher...now i feel inadequate.

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It turns out deep space is still really into disco.

With this being an IR telescope, how do they translate that into a visible "color" image? And why do some objects have giant diffraction spikes? I thought that was an optical phenomenon.

 

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12 minutes ago, Paper_jam said:

It turns out deep space is still really into disco.

With this being an IR telescope, how do they translate that into a visible "color" image? And why do some objects have giant diffraction spikes? I thought that was an optical phenomenon.

 

To your first question, a lot of things going on there. 

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0835-2

https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/webb-conversations-its-all-about-infrared-why-build-the-james-webb-space-telescope

to the second, the objects that are showing spikes are stats that are insanely closer to the telescope than most of the image. That is a lot to do with it. 

here is some detailed explanation. 

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/james-webb-spikes/

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imaging of the galactic cluster is from approximately 4.6 billion years ago.  slightly older than the age of our lovely home planet and about the time armybrat was born.

Fake news. The earth is only 6,000 years old.
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27 minutes ago, GreenspointTexas said:

1000000000000000000000000000 

 

 

thats the number of planets in the KNOWN universe

And I learned from Star Trek that all the people who live on them have ridges running down their foreheads.

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1 hour ago, sidis said:

To your first question, a lot of things going on there. 

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0835-2

https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/webb-conversations-its-all-about-infrared-why-build-the-james-webb-space-telescope

to the second, the objects that are showing spikes are stats that are insanely closer to the telescope than most of the image. That is a lot to do with it. 

here is some detailed explanation. 

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/james-webb-spikes/

Due to distance variance of objects in the image. 

This will help study objects out in the outer reaches of the observable universe. Since the space between is expanding faster than the speed of light the observable universe is constantly shrinking for us and we'll never have any way to know what's outside of it. 

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1 hour ago, freyguy said:

I'm not talking about the differences between the scopes.  I'm just saying that the pic they took is old hat.

show us some real space shit.  Not something I've already seen.

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Yeah!  I want a different universe!  Not the same one we live in!

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Larry: Okay. That means that our whole solar system could be, like one tiny atom in the fingernail of some other giant being. This is too much! That means one tiny atom in my fingernail could be . . .

Jennings: Could be one little tiny universe.

Larry: Could I buy some pot from you?

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27 minutes ago, 52-80 said:

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I’m not a camera guy.  It is an eye-opening experience to see how much you can pay for a single camera lens when planning a safari.  I didn’t feel the need to get a closeup of the lion’s nose hair for more than the entire trip cost.

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1 minute ago, conVINCEd said:

I’m not a camera guy.  It is an eye-opening experience to see how much you can pay for a single camera lens when planning a safari.  I didn’t feel the need to get a closeup of the lion’s nose hair for more than the entire trip cost.

If the lion gets too close it serves as a defensive weapon

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1 hour ago, freyguy said:

I thought Hubble already got us a pic of this....

1. It took Hubble weeks to generate that image; this one took mere hours.

2. This one is much more detailed than Hubble's.

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4 minutes ago, Kel Varnsen said:

All I can see is Uranus

Tyler: Where's he from? Uranus. Get it. Your anus?
Greg: He doesn't get it Ty.
Tyler: Get it? Your anus?
Greg: He doesn't get it.
Elliot: You're so immature!

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50 minutes ago, South Austin said:

Tyler: Where's he from? Uranus. Get it. Your anus?
Greg: He doesn't get it Ty.
Tyler: Get it? Your anus?
Greg: He doesn't get it.
Elliot: You're so immature!

 

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17 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

take the same picture their last camera took, just to see if it was better?

Know how I know you aren’t an amateur photographer who buys a new camera every few years in the belief the latest and greatest will make you a better photographer?

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