Webb Space Telescope Thread II

[jbj]

I wish I had the brains to comprehend even half of what this means.

 

[BlockInlay]

If this telescope was to be pointed up Uranus, nasa could tell what you are going to eat next week

 

[Tig]

We’re just 3 days away from seeing the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s first images. Using the largest camera ever built, Rubin will repeatedly scan the sky for 10 years and create an ultra-wide, ultra-high-definition time-lapse record of our Universe. The observatory is located on the El Peñón peak of Cerro Pachón, a 2,682-meter-high (8,799 ft) mountain in Coquimbo Region, in northern Chile, alongside the existing Gemini South and Southern Astrophysical Research Telescopes
Here are some key facts about this amazing new facility:
29 years from conception to completion (1996–2025)
~3,000 scientists among 8 science collaborations ready to work on Rubin data
~20 terabytes of cosmic data collected every night during Rubin’s 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST)
~10 million alerts of changes in the sky per night
~38 billion detected in the full LSST
Rubin will reveal its first images to the world on June 23, 2025, and begin the LSST later this year.

Their facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Rubin.observatory

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[mongooz]

it's absolutely amazing every time they release images from Webb, and compare them to Hubble, which at the time was amazing. i guess it just goes to show science isn't the voodoo crap the other side says it is.

 

[Dew Knot Humps]

I’m a fan of the JWST, incredible stuff. Maybe one day they will pinpoint the exact location of Heaven.

 

[Tig]

The first images have been released by the Vera Rubin Observatory - home to the world's most powerful digital camera - and they're remarkable. The one here shows the Trifid and Lagoon nebulae in stunning detail. This powerful new instrument will help detect killer asteroids in striking distance of Earth, map the Milky Way in unprecedented detail, and answer crucial questions about dark matter, the mysterious substance that makes up most of our universe. It may also reveal any undetected planets in the outer reaches of the Solar System. The giant camera will repeatedly capture the night sky for ten years, every three days, for a Legacy Survey of Space and Time.

 

[shoeless]

That's a lot of galaxies.

 

[Tig]

 

[jp_nyc]

Tonight I took The Boy to the planetarium for a talk about Neptune and Uranus. When they do these talks slides are projected on the very large dome, sometimes a series of slides and images moving and zooming around the dome. We’ve seen different JWST images at these talks but tonight we saw blowups of the shots of Neptune and Uranus, so that was rad. I generally loathe Boulder but having a state of the art planetarium 15 minutes from home is pretty cool.

 

[jrockbridge]

The James Webb Space Telescope has shown us that we were wrong about things we thought we knew about the universe. It has shown in detail that there is a significant discrepancy in the expansion rate of the universe, which suggests that our theories about how the universe expands were incorrect. Galaxies formed after the big bang much more quickly mature than was thought possible. Dark matter dictates the structure of the cosmos, like a dark scaffolding which formed before galaxies. There are 10x more galaxies than we’ve previously seen. It has detected signatures of dimethyl sulfide in the atmosphere of an exoplanet, which suggests active biological processes. They need to rewrite astrophysics textbooks.

 

[jp_nyc]

Tonight we went to a talk by a scientist from the Minerva team talking about her work in the development of galaxies using imagery from the JWST. At one point there was a simulation of clumps of dark matter forming in the early universe projected on the 18 meter dome overhead with an 8k projector. Apparently some galaxies formed in the early universe as early as 400 million years after the big bang and they stopped producing new stars shortly thereafter. Astronomers do not understand how this is possible. They have talks like this every week. And tomorrow there are two talks, one about JWST and one about DESI. Living 15 minutes away from a university with a big astronomy program that has direct access to everything coming from that satellite is pretty fucking awesome. I just wish the rest of Boulder was this cool.