That sun shield deployment sequence is a serious bit of engineering. Imagine being on the team that designed and built it knowing if it fails the entire trip gets aborted.
Near-Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph/Fine Guidance Sensor (NIRISS/FGS)
Of the four main scientific instruments on board the JWST UK scientists were chiefly responsible for MIRI which was delivered to NASA way back in May 2012. Obviously been a fair bit of tweaking since then.
NASA, in partnership with ESA (European Space Agency) and CSA (Canadian Space Agency), will release the James Webb Space Telescope’s first full-color images and spectroscopic data during a televised broadcast beginning at 10:30 a.m. EDT (14:30 UTC) on Tuesday, July 12, from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Released one by one, these first images from the world’s largest and most powerful space telescope will demonstrate Webb at its full power, ready to begin its mission to unfold the infrared universe.
On Monday, July 11 at 5 p.m. EDT, President Joe Biden will release one of Webb’s first images in a preview event at the White House in Washington. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson will provide remarks. A live stream of the event will be available on NASA TV.
In the first picture in particular, each one of those dots are galaxies and contain trillions of stars. Really strikes home the enormity of creation.
And if there are an infinite number of parallel universes there is one where Charlton have a 90,000 capacity stadium and fans are tired of them constantly winning the champions league
In the first picture in particular, each one of those dots are galaxies and contain trillions of stars. Really strikes home the enormity of creation.
And if there are an infinite number of parallel universes there is one where Charlton have a 90,000 capacity stadium and fans are tired of them constantly winning the champions league
I believed in parallel universes until you said that.
'Astronomers estimate there exist roughly 10,000 stars for each grain of sand on Earth. That's a lot of stars. Astronomers recently discovered the origin of sand grains. For years, they believed that only sun-like stars created lots of carbon and silicon dust, and the silicon dust is the source of sand.'
In the first picture in particular, each one of those dots are galaxies and contain trillions of stars. Really strikes home the enormity of creation.
And if there are an infinite number of parallel universes there is one where Charlton have a 90,000 capacity stadium and fans are tired of them constantly winning the champions league
I hate that f*ing version of me living in that one.
Unreal photos - and of course a serious look back in time.
I still think this is the most awe inspiring photo of space - the Eagle Nebula (the Pillars of Creation). This was taken with the Hubble so heaven knows what a shot with the Webb would look like!
Unreal photos - and of course a serious look back in time.
I still think this is the most awe inspiring photo of space - the Eagle Nebula (the Pillars of Creation). This was taken with the Hubble so heaven knows what a shot with the Webb would look like!
Looks like the Universe is getting ready to give the finger
Unreal photos - and of course a serious look back in time.
I still think this is the most awe inspiring photo of space - the Eagle Nebula (the Pillars of Creation). This was taken with the Hubble so heaven knows what a shot with the Webb would look like!
Unreal photos - and of course a serious look back in time.
I still think this is the most awe inspiring photo of space - the Eagle Nebula (the Pillars of Creation). This was taken with the Hubble so heaven knows what a shot with the Webb would look like!
Unreal photos - and of course a serious look back in time.
I still think this is the most awe inspiring photo of space - the Eagle Nebula (the Pillars of Creation). This was taken with the Hubble so heaven knows what a shot with the Webb would look like!
Its the sizes that are incomprehensible. The pillars are around 5 light years high so bigger than the distance between our sun and the nearest star.
Each dot a galaxy, that contains billions upon billions of stars with solar systems like our own. Worlds with breathtaking sunrises and sunsets, mountains and valleys. If they have or had intelligent life, all the stories and histories and empires that have come and gone.
Truly humbling. Remember - you're made up from the same atoms that are in these stars. You are the universe experiencing itself. You are both incomprehensibly small and incomprehensibly big.
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- Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI)
- Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam)
- Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec)
- Near-Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph/Fine Guidance Sensor (NIRISS/FGS)
Of the four main scientific instruments on board the JWST UK scientists were chiefly responsible for MIRI which was delivered to NASA way back in May 2012. Obviously been a fair bit of tweaking since then.https://www.gov.uk/government/case-studies/james-webb-space-telescope-jwst
Nooooo!!!
NASA, in partnership with ESA (European Space Agency) and CSA (Canadian Space Agency), will release the James Webb Space Telescope’s first full-color images and spectroscopic data during a televised broadcast beginning at 10:30 a.m. EDT (14:30 UTC) on Tuesday, July 12, from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Released one by one, these first images from the world’s largest and most powerful space telescope will demonstrate Webb at its full power, ready to begin its mission to unfold the infrared universe.
On Monday, July 11 at 5 p.m. EDT, President Joe Biden will release one of Webb’s first images in a preview event at the White House in Washington. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson will provide remarks. A live stream of the event will be available on NASA TV.
'Astronomers estimate there exist roughly 10,000 stars for each grain of sand on Earth. That's a lot of stars. Astronomers recently discovered the origin of sand grains. For years, they believed that only sun-like stars created lots of carbon and silicon dust, and the silicon dust is the source of sand.'
Simply incomprehensible stuff. Fascinating.
I still think this is the most awe inspiring photo of space - the Eagle Nebula (the Pillars of Creation). This was taken with the Hubble so heaven knows what a shot with the Webb would look like!
Here is the original photo before colourisation
Wow, that's beautiful. Especially carina nebula
Fascinates and boggles my mind at the same time!
Truly humbling. Remember - you're made up from the same atoms that are in these stars. You are the universe experiencing itself. You are both incomprehensibly small and incomprehensibly big.