The Webb Space Telescope, launching Dec. 18 2021

It’s actually nuts how far out there this thing going to be. I have these images in my head of the Hubble telescope being worked on by astronauts while it’s in orbit… and this thing is orders of magnitude further out than the moon!!
 
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Big milestones in the last few days. Still got a ways to go, but man am I happy the sails and mirrors are done with no issues.
 
bob saget said:
It’s actually nuts how far out there this thing going to be. I have these images in my head of the Hubble telescope being worked on by astronauts while it’s in orbit… and this thing is orders of magnitude further out than the moon!!
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The moon is 1.28 light seconds away, and JWST will be 5 light seconds away.

Not that far.
 
Amazing scientists pushing technology to the max. So sick how much trial and tribulation the telescope endured before it even made it to space, and everything has gone to plan so far.

Amazing
 
And looks like they managed to save on fuel to give it another ~10 years of use! So we'll have some great astronomy for 20 years...
 
Nunz said:
Amazing scientists pushing technology to the max. So sick how much trial and tribulation the telescope endured before it even made it to space, and everything has gone to plan so far.

Amazing
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This.
 
https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/07/nasa-names-first-five-targets-for-webb-images/

On Friday, NASA continued to build the hype for next week's image release from the Webb Space Telescope by announcing the five objects in the first cache of images. A few of the targets are exactly what you'd expect, given what scientists have said they want to use the telescope to image, while a couple have likely been chosen because they'll produce some fantastic visuals.


I know this stuff is the most over hyped space thing in forever but was just thinking about this and since the search thing is so spotty, wanted to surface the thread before the big reveal in case I can't find it again.

For those tldr the five are WASP-96 b, The Carina Nebula, SMACS 0723, Stephan’s Quintet, and the Southern Ring Nebula.

Edit: Man the images had better be freakin awesome.
 
Should be good, even the test image looks hot. I'm going to download a huge uncompressed image (if they have it) and just stare at it for a while.
 
It's crazy how all those tiny little dots in the background are galaxies. So many of them.
 
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