The James Webb Space Telescope Thread

[Grande Mart 502]

Imagine how many people out there right now are fuckin' man. Just goin' at it.

[faps 806]

1 hour ago, bolverk said:

Impressive. 

Redditor Whatevery1sThinking shared a gif that overlaps the two images to give some perspective of just how much better James Webb’s imaging capability is:

 

[Jersey Man10 3506]

More pictures will come out tomorrow.

[Serak The Preparer 3424]

[Chico_SA 521]

"This slice of the vast universe covers a patch of sky approximately the size of a grain of sand held at arm’s length by someone on the ground.:"

 

[High Plains Drifter 10970]

 

4 hours ago, GreenspointTexas said:

1000000000000000000000000000 

 

 

thats the number of planets in the KNOWN universe

 

4 hours ago, DaggerHorns said:

Commas, dickhead

 

4 hours ago, DaggerHorns said:

1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

1 Quintillion

 

 

scientific notation asshole

10^27

1 octillion

 

 

 

Edited July 12, 2022 by High Plains Drifter
berlinerbear wins

[F250 28679]

6 hours ago, sidis said:

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.

 

4 hours ago, Hermanator said:

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. 

 

[Quagmire 2146]

Any nudes ?

[Pato del Muerto 52338]

9 minutes ago, Quagmire said:

Any nudes ?

[ClubWhatever 12087]

14 hours ago, sidis said:

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.

Reading through the links in your OP link, it sounds like some of the stuff apparent in the image is behind the cluster, and from an even earlier time, since the cluster somehow acts as a lens.  I would like to know how old that stuff is, but it doesn't say.

[thunderlounge 7753]

12 hours ago, RDCanecutter said:

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

And they all know English. How convenient! 

[Serak The Preparer 3424]

Universal translator yo. It works wonders (except of course for Tamarians and their dumb metaphor-based language).

[Braff Zacklin 13408]

This telescope deserves better than a third-rate live stream broadcast.

But here it is:

 

Edited July 12, 2022 by Braff Zacklin

[sidis 9732]

1 hour ago, ClubWhatever said:

Reading through the links in your OP link, it sounds like some of the stuff apparent in the image is behind the cluster, and from an even earlier time, since the cluster somehow acts as a lens.  I would like to know how old that stuff is, but it doesn't say.

a lot of it is behind the actual galactic cluster...but the cluster is so gravitationally dense, that it is going to create a significant amount of lensing for things behind the cluster that you can see thanks to the space-time bending created by the intense gravity.  here is a pretty helpful visual to understand it.

 

as for how distant the objects behind the SMACS 0723 cluster are, that wasn't really part of any of the information released for some reason.  but it is certainly knowable as the lensing doesn't really affect the redshift of the object.  i just haven't seen it.  but it is certainly much more than 4.6 billion light years away...probably in the 10-11 billion light year distance range if had to venture a guess.

[Braff Zacklin 13408]

Image No.3

Edited July 12, 2022 by Braff Zacklin
hi-res version

[sidis 9732]

12 hours ago, MissingInAction said:

Expected Dickbutt.

i've always wished that @RamjetFDO would adjust this gif to switch the umbrella to dickbutt.

[Braff Zacklin 13408]

Image No.4

 

Edited July 12, 2022 by Braff Zacklin

[sidis 9732]

in terms of some of the more commonly understandable scientific applications of the the jwst's enhanced capabilities, its sensitivity for purposes of measuring changes in the light curve for distant stars as planetary transits occur will give us a much greater ability to locate and identify exoplanets.  but even more importantly, getting a greater sense of detail related to their composition.

 

 

 

[Braff Zacklin 13408]

Image No.5

 

Edited July 12, 2022 by Braff Zacklin

[smuggs 9341]

Hi-res look at WASP-96b:

 

[ClubWhatever 12087]

4 minutes ago, Braff Zacklin said:

Image No.5

 

So is all that orange stuff made out of stars?

[Braff Zacklin 13408]

1 minute ago, ClubWhatever said:

So is all that orange stuff made out of stars?

Everything is stardust, bruh.

[jeevsie 3720]

It's spice.

Also, it's my new background.

Edited July 12, 2022 by jeevsie

[conVINCEd 21468]

[InkaUtexas 25495]

Images are so amazing. Damn science, you scary! 

[wildcat09 29220]

I don't understand it at all, but space is the coolest shit imaginable. 

[Pato del Muerto 52338]

17 minutes ago, Braff Zacklin said:

Image No.5

 

Used to be a dude on 6th that would spray paint stuff like this in ten minutes and sell them for $20.  All while blasting EDM. 

Edited July 12, 2022 by Pato del Muerto

[RamjetFDO 10554]

27 minutes ago, Braff Zacklin said:

Image No.4

 

 

I love this one, as one of my courses in my Master's program was titled "Interacting Galaxies" - and was every bit as awesome as the title implied.  The final project for the course was setting up these large point-models to simulate a pair of rotating spiral galaxies and run it through mathematical models to show how the gravitational pull of larger galaxies would literally rip apart smaller ones, but if they were "similar" on a gross scale in total stellar mass/galactic core size, they'd form those wonderful paired spirals like you see in the center of this image.

[Braff Zacklin 13408]

3 minutes ago, RamjetFDO said:

I love this one, as one of my courses in my Master's program was titled "Interacting Galaxies" - and was every bit as awesome as the title implied.  The final project for the course was setting up these large point-models to simulate a pair of rotating spiral galaxies and run it through mathematical models to show how the gravitational pull of larger galaxies would literally rip apart smaller ones, but if they were "similar" on a gross scale in total stellar mass/galactic core size, they'd form those wonderful paired spirals like you see in the center of this image.

Makes one wonder about how the inevitable interactions between our Milky Way, the Triangulum and Andromeda would appear to those viewing from afar.

[RamjetFDO 10554]

Just now, Braff Zacklin said:

Makes one wonder about how the inevitable interactions between our Milky Way, the Triangulum and Andromeda would appear to those viewing from afar.

Pretty much like that image ... we're comparable in size to Andromeda, but I would bet M33 gets torn apart by Andromeda before we tussle.

[RDCanecutter 26246]

2 hours ago, Serak The Preparer said:

Universal translator yo. It works wonders (except of course for Tamarians and their dumb metaphor-based language).

So the whole crew of the USS Enterprise could be mumbling Pikeys, and we

Hear it

Like this, Spock?

[sidis 9732]

51 minutes ago, ClubWhatever said:

So is all that orange stuff made out of stars?

more the reverse...the orange stuff is basically a nursery for creating stars.  this is the carina nebula...only about 8,500 light years away.  that image is showing you everything from massive O type stars to the closest to newborn stars as we have observed.  in that pic, there are star clusters that are only half a million years old.

 

30 minutes ago, RamjetFDO said:

Pretty much like that image ... we're comparable in size to Andromeda, but I would bet M33 gets torn apart by Andromeda before we tussle.

in one of my undergrad ast classes at ut in 1999, we had to present much more superficial efforts than what you described but i did mine on the impending collision between the milky way and andromeda 4 billion years from now.  i found this really cool (at the time) simulator for galactic collisions that jpl had made.  back then, we still thought andromeda was 2-3x our size so it was a pretty cool, violent collision in 2D. 

[sidis 9732]

1 hour ago, Braff Zacklin said:

Image No.5

 

similar image in near infrared.

what's cool about this one is that you can actually see the accretion disks around the new stars from which planets will form.  that is fucking crazy.

 

[freyguy 4245]

1 hour ago, Braff Zacklin said:

Image No.5

 

 

[Pato del Muerto 52338]

16 minutes ago, sidis said:

similar image in near infrared.

what's cool about this one is that you can actually see the accretion disks around the new stars from which planets will form.  that is fucking crazy.

 

Have formed, I’m assuming. 

[NOMAAA 1696]

1 hour ago, Braff Zacklin said:

Image No.5

 

if i squint really hard i can see the infinity gauntlet in there.

[Captainant 27435]

6 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Have formed, I’m assuming. 

We'll find out in a few hundred million years

[sidis 9732]

9 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Have formed, I’m assuming. 

no!!  that's what is insane.  or at least not a mere 8,500 years ago.  you can actually resolve the protoplanetary accretion disks on some of the stars 8500 light years away.

protoplanetary disks usually take a few million years to resolve into planets if they do so.

here is an image of a disk from the alma radio telescope of a new star that's only 450 light years away.  these are 20x as far.

Edited July 12, 2022 by sidis

['stache 21751]

2 hours ago, Braff Zacklin said:

Image No.3

Someone's gonna goatse this one, of course. Pretty effing cool.

[Brisketexan 104548]

Having coffee with an astrophysicist right now. His comment is that todays photos are 1) objectively cool, 2) most important because they show us Webb is really working at high resolution, and 3) being used for good politics and fundraising, which is always important.
Cynical bastard. That’s why we get along.

[52-80 19079]

It's already been noted that because the telescopes are looking at light sources from far far away, what's captured on the photos are remnant cosmic configurations:  it's literally looking into the past.

So this is the next image produced by the telescope, capturing the year 1948:

 

[NOMAAA 1696]

44 minutes ago, 52-80 said:

It's already been noted that because the telescopes are looking at light sources from far far away, what's captured on the photos are remnant cosmic configurations:  it's literally looking into the past.

So this is the next image produced by the telescope, capturing the year 1948:

 

my 3 year old niece can do that.

[52-80 19079]

1 minute ago, NOMAAA said:

my 3 year old niece can do that.

can i put her under contract?

[Hate 20103]

3 hours ago, sidis said:

similar image in near infrared.

what's cool about this one is that you can actually see the accretion disks around the new stars from which planets will form.  that is fucking crazy.

 

Where should I be looking to see said discs? Are they the darker swirls near the stars?

[sidis 9732]

7 hours ago, ClubWhatever said:

Reading through the links in your OP link, it sounds like some of the stuff apparent in the image is behind the cluster, and from an even earlier time, since the cluster somehow acts as a lens.  I would like to know how old that stuff is, but it doesn't say.

happened across some information on this and thought i would share since you asked.  from the original image, one of the more distant objects that was resolved had a redshift indicating a distance of 13.1 billion light years.  so my swag of 10-11 billion light years was off.  even more amazingly, the nirspec spectroscopy measurement tool was able to read its composition.  so we know that 13 billion years ago, this galaxy was comprised of a lot of hydrogen, oxygen, and neon elements.  no surprise, but still incredible.

Edited July 12, 2022 by sidis

[CooterBrown 17904]

So, those stars could have inhabitable planets with developed intelligent life at this point in time.

[sidis 9732]

26 minutes ago, Hate said:

Where should I be looking to see said discs? Are they the darker swirls near the stars?

hate, you won't be able to see them on the image that i posted.  the resolution is too small.  go to this link:

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/2022/031/01G780WF1VRADDSD5MDNDRKAGY?news=true

and download the 50MB, full resolution image on the left side of the page.  when you get that, open it and zoom.  the protoplanetary disks will look like this in the image whe you zoom in.

[Bevo 13522]

5 hours ago, Braff Zacklin said:

Image No.3

That's Dormammu.

[Ten Bears 2479]

Can this thing image close-up stars too?  They could take a look at what happened to Alpha Centauri like 4.5 years ago.

[sidis 9732]

more on gravitation lensing.  this is pretty awesome actually.  what appears to be two highly lensed galaxy arcs are actually one galaxy that we see twice from two angles because it is being lensed spherically.  confirmed that they are the same through identical spectroscopy.  that is so fucking cool.  damn gravity, you crazy.