Webb telescope images!

[Polymath257]

Yesterday, we saw the release of a 'deep sky' image from the new Webb space telescope.

Today we see images of the Southern Ring nebula, and Stephan's Quintet.

Check them out from NASA:

https://www.nasa.gov/content/first-images-from-the-james-webb-space-telescope

For comparison, look at the Southern Ring Nebula from a Hubble image:

https://twitter.com/NASAWebb/status/1546871951897001986/photo/1

and now from Webb:

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/...r_death_s_ring_miri_nircam_sidebyside-5mb.jpg

I am blown away by the image of Stephan's Quintet:
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/...stephans_quintet_sq_nircam_miri_final-5mb.jpg


A truly amazing day!

 

[England my lionheart]

It’s awesome and more to come.

 

[Polymath257]

It’s awesome and more to come.

The long wait is worth it, finally!

 

[England my lionheart]

The long wait is worth it, finally!

It is and it tells us so much,I can’t wait for more.

 

[England my lionheart]

This so reminds me of a SF book I read “The mote in Gods eye”,not sure why,read it when I was a kid.

 

[Aupmanyav]

A truly amazing day!

Beautiful, and it is just the beginning.

 

[Twilight Hue]

A great day for science. It has infrared capability and a massive mirror as well. Imagine what discoveries will become of that!

I hear more photos are on the way!

 

[Altfish]

These photos are brilliant. I await with baited breath the many more that are to come

 

[RestlessSoul]

The images of the Southern Ring Nebula I find deeply moving; two stars locked together in a dance of death. Beautiful.

 

[Stevicus]

Yesterday, we saw the release of a 'deep sky' image from the new Webb space telescope.

Today we see images of the Southern Ring nebula, and Stephan's Quintet.

Check them out from NASA:

https://www.nasa.gov/content/first-images-from-the-james-webb-space-telescope

For comparison, look at the Southern Ring Nebula from a Hubble image:

https://twitter.com/NASAWebb/status/1546871951897001986/photo/1

and now from Webb:

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/...r_death_s_ring_miri_nircam_sidebyside-5mb.jpg

I am blown away by the image of Stephan's Quintet:
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/...stephans_quintet_sq_nircam_miri_final-5mb.jpg


A truly amazing day!

I've always been fascinated with space, and I thought it would be really cool to travel in space and just go to another planet. It seems I'm not the only one with that dream, as I've met many others who wished I would go to another planet, too.

 

[Aupmanyav]

I've always been fascinated with space, and I thought it would be really cool to travel in space and just go to another planet. It seems I'm not the only one with that dream, as I've met many others who wished I would go to another planet, too.

I do not have that dream. Knowing the problems and distances, anything beyond Mars is beyond our reach. But that does not bar me from my interest in Astrophysics.
India's first manned space flight (Gaganyana - sky vehicle) is ready.

 

[Stevicus]

I do not have that dream. Knowing the problems and distances, anything beyond Mars is beyond our reach. But that does not bar me from my interest in Astrophysics.
India's first manned space flight (Gaganyana - sky vehicle) is ready.

Well, yes, at this point I figure that space travel is not in my future. But humanity may yet make it out there someday, to boldly go where no human has gone before.

 

[Aupmanyav]

Inshallah.

 

[Quagmire]

We live in a tye-dye universe.

 

[Aupmanyav]

You seem to be right. Give us some hints.

 

[Truthseeker]

Yesterday, we saw the release of a 'deep sky' image from the new Webb space telescope.

Today we see images of the Southern Ring nebula, and Stephan's Quintet.

Check them out from NASA:

https://www.nasa.gov/content/first-images-from-the-james-webb-space-telescope

For comparison, look at the Southern Ring Nebula from a Hubble image:

https://twitter.com/NASAWebb/status/1546871951897001986/photo/1

and now from Webb:

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/...r_death_s_ring_miri_nircam_sidebyside-5mb.jpg

I am blown away by the image of Stephan's Quintet:
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/...stephans_quintet_sq_nircam_miri_final-5mb.jpg


A truly amazing day!

Darn! You beat me to posting this and had the bonus of the Hubble image of the Southern Ring Nebula.

 

[Truthseeker]

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This so reminds me of a SF book I read “The mote in Gods eye”,not sure why,read it when I was a kid.

I read that too!

 

[England my lionheart]

I read that too!

Great book

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

I've had the NASA James Webb Telescope website bookmarked for some time as a persistent source of anticipation and excitement. Nevertheless, the name troubles me.

(See Wikipedia: James Webb - Legacy and Wikipedia: Lavender Scare)

In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Antony says:

The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred in their bones.​

Just the opposite is the true case here. Let's hope that one legacy of the James Webb Telescope will be a perspective on humanity that argues forcefully against homophobia, xenophobia, and misogyny.

 

[Subduction Zone]