First Image From James Webb Space Telescope
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Yep, that gravitational lensing was predicted by Einstein -- crazy that gravity can even bend light. I remember reading that even Newtonian physics allowed for gravitational lensing, but to a much lesser degree.
Bravo. Everything had to work correctly, like the sun shield unfolding, because they can't send astronauts a million miles to do repairs. People expect the first year of photos to be continual ah-ha moments, but I suspect they will raise more questions than they answer. The real pay day may come in twenty years when (If there are people around to think about it all) they will make underlying sense of what they have accumulated over the years. Like the movie 2001 that proposed we would be traveling between galaxies by then. We can't even get to the local restaurants for various reasons.
Yeah, even the launch had to be perfect -- this mission had a lot of steps that had to unfold just so. It's a bit of a miracle it's operational.
honestly though this stuff is just amazing. What a wonderful time to be alive in some ways. Like these pictures being a thing we can just look up on our magic electric boxes.
I love the quote from Carl Sagan about how you are the universe experiencing itself! That's an insightful turn.
Those truly are galaxies far, far away, but they appear to have captured an image of a small moon.
I'm pretty sure the really spectacular part is the part we are unable to see.
You and Ray are both spot on.
Uh, I don't know if it was the herbal pipe blend I smoked but I laughed like hell when I read that.
That's great, but...I don't recognize any of it. I realize that I shouldn't, but it looks like everything else.
Why not show a photo of something that, in the past, was always blurry - but now it looks clear?
Hey... that's no moon!
All the images were beautiful but the gravitational lensing in the Deep Field blew my mind. I wrote about it today on my blog. I can't wait to see some of my more favorite DSO's imaged by Webb.
If you guys think this really something, wait until the Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator I ordered on eBay arrives.
Don't be silly, only a Martian can blow up a planet with a firecracker.
They were going to add a 2x Barlow but the extra weight was just too much... ?
Well, why send that thing up there if it won't show us what's inside all that stuff.