NASA James Webb telescope images?.

[Watts.E.Dunn]

Anyone see this earlier?. Presented by a few lady astronomers whos dialouge was Wow WoW WOW WOWEE!!!!

Amazing more WOW! bless em so how to impress on of the NASA Babes show e'm your crab nebula;)

But seriouily their just amazing I feel gratefull to live in the age where this imaging is possible imagine if such as

Copernicus, Kepler, Poltemy, Galileo, Huygens and of course Issac Newton Hawking if he's just lived a little longer how they'd be amazed!

Amazing galaxies billions of light years away and even the most distant objects probally the same again and then again!

And we're just one infinestial tiny speck in that lot!?, so somwehere in a Galaxy  far far away someine is probally shagging and writing about it! Who says thats  not possile eh;?...

[mr.bluesky]

There has been some fantastic images from the hubble telescope over the years. Advances in telescopes has certainly improved our understanding of the universe that's for sure . The pillars of creation image has to be one of the most iconic images ever seen. More exoplanets are being discovered every week. Hard to comprehend that there are billions of galaxies out there each containing billions of stars which will have planets orbiting around them . Very naive to think we are the only planet with intelligent life on it 

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[Ghost89]

I recommend the NASA app which is free. Regular pics posted as well as live viewing of the ISS and where it is orbiting. And tons of pics of mars as well as other stuff. A fantastic app.

[JontyR]

Very naive to think we are the only planet with intelligent life on it 

Very naive to think there is intelligent life here!

It's the whole mind boggling aspects about distance both in terms of space but also in time. We must be a noisy little planet, with all our communications firing off everywhere. But that is only across the last century or so. Even if we are existing concurrently with another civilisation both may not exist anymore by the time messages were exchanged!!

[Squire Haggard]

I look forward to seeing more of the James Webb Telescope photos.

We haven't found life outside our own planet yet. Could they have found us?

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[chrishornx]

I look forward to seeing more of the James Webb Telescope photos.

We haven't found life outside our own planet yet. Could they have found us?

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thought provoking SH

[Squire Haggard]

thought provoking SH

 

[mr.bluesky]

Very naive to think there is intelligent life here!

It's the whole mind boggling aspects about distance both in terms of space but also in time. We must be a noisy little planet, with all our communications firing off everywhere. But that is only across the last century or so. Even if we are existing concurrently with another civilisation both may not exist anymore by the time messages were exchanged!!

True , even stars we currently see in the night sky may no longer exist due to the length of time the light from these stars take to reach us. The nearest star to us ( apart from our sun)  Alpha Centauri C is 4.25  light years away so we are actually seeing it as it was 4.25 years ago. If it was to turn supernova now we wouldn't be aware of it until 2026 . Light from the Orion Nebula takes 1500 years to reach us . All mind boggling stuff 

[mr.bluesky]

I look forward to seeing more of the James Webb Telescope photos.

We haven't found life outside our own planet yet. Could they have found us?

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Why do they call UFO's Unidentified Ariel Phenomenon nowadays . Why the change 
Let's be honest if intelligent life did exist and knew of our existence would they want to get in touch with us knowing how we are by constantly waging wars amongst ourselves and polluting our planet. They would think we are intelligent but not civilised   

[smiths]

Its an amazing bit of kit, on the BBC news it said it cost £10billion so should be for that wonga in my book.

[catweazle]

True , even stars we currently see in the night sky may no longer exist due to the length of time the light from these stars take to reach us. The nearest star to us ( apart from our sun)  Alpha Centauri C is 4.25  light years away so we are actually seeing it as it was 4.25 years ago. If it was to turn supernova now we wouldn't be aware of it until 2026 . Light from the Orion Nebula takes 1500 years to reach us . All mind boggling stuff 

True, but stars don't suddenly go supernova. It's a very long, drawn out process  so those within a few hundred light years can be observed to watch for signs of death.

[Squire Haggard]

Why do they call UFO's Unidentified Ariel Phenomenon nowadays . Why the change 

My guess is that they call them UAPs because its less sensationalist than UFOs which are associated with ''little green men.''

[badsin]

Didn't the US government confirm the existence of UAP's a year or two ago?

[Squire Haggard]

Didn't the US government confirm the existence of UAP's a year or two ago?

Yes, they've sort of quietly admitted it almost a year ago.

''Incursions into our training ranges and designated airspace pose safety of flight and operations security concerns, and may pose national security challenges.  DOD takes reports of incursions – by any aerial object, identified or unidentified – very seriously, and investigates each one.

The report submitted today highlights the challenges associated with assessing UAP occurring on or near DOD training ranges and installations.  The report also identified the need to make improvements in processes, policies, technologies, and training to improve our ability to understand UAP.''

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[Dickled]

I read somewhere the images we're seeing now date from 12/13 billion years and represent the birth of the Universe. This dating, apparently, is correct within 100/200 million years. All totally amazing and mind blowing and as a BBC newscaster said yesterday, made her, and me, feel inconsequential.

[radioman33]

Didn't the US government confirm the existence of UAP's a year or two ago?

Navy pilots have seen them.

[Watts.E.Dunn]

Navy pilots have seen them.

Yes always in remore parts of the USofA aren't they?, very raely if ever in the UK

Whats uncle Sam trying to hide or who does he want to scare then;?..

Seems the conspiracy therouists are denouncing the JWST images as fake, like we never went to the Moon;!.

[Watts.E.Dunn]

thought provoking SH

Yes it is but can they travel at speeds that could reach us from most anywhwre?, have they found a way to travel faster than light?

And whilst bombing along thru sapce at over 186,000 miles a second god help you if you hit anything like a small meteroid or bit of space junk;!

[spiralnotebook]

Cue the monolith from 2001 . .

[mr.bluesky]

Yes it is but can they travel at speeds that could reach us from most anywhwre?, have they found a way to travel faster than light?

And whilst bombing along thru sapce at over 186,000 miles a second god help you if you hit anything like a small meteroid or bit of space junk;!

Never been a problem for the Starship Enterprise   

[mills_and_bhuna]

Navy pilots have seen them.

it must be true then

[badsin]

it must be true then

I'll bite...... any links to contradict these navy pilots? 😂🤣

[mr.bluesky]

Getting back on topic just watched the programme on BBC2 about the James Webb telescope. An incredible feat of engineering.  8 billion dollars cost and over 30 years in the making. So much could go wrong in such a complicated piece of machinery yet it all went smoothly.  Hats off to all those involved in the project  Some fantastic images it has already captured. 👏

[Bummer]

Me too cracking programme : shows just how incredible we humans are.   The way we will be able to analyse atmospheres of planets is amazing and could give us some truly amazing discoveries .

[Dickled]

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[Stevelondon]

How every government agency has fooled you lot I will never know.
The earth is flat for gods sake and those so called stars are just some kind of twinkle effect our glorious creator put up there.

It’s all explained in the bible.

Come on guys. Get real. !!!

[mr.bluesky]

How every government agency has fooled you lot I will never know.
The earth is flat for gods sake and those so called stars are just some kind of twinkle effect our glorious creator put up there.

It’s all explained in the bible.

Come on guys. Get real. !!!

If the world is flat how come all the sea water doesn't run of the edges   
 

[Marmalade]

I feel gratefull to live in the age where this imaging is possible

So unheralded as the implications don't come across so dramatically in a news blurb. Could yet prove to bring about the greatest advance in knowledge of our era.

[Marmalade]

If the world is flat how come all the sea water doesn't run of the edges   
 

Or as a bishop once said to me when I asked about another of the Bible's great and glaring inconsistencies, "This is one of the great mysteries!"
 

[mr.bluesky]

So unheralded as the implications don't come across so dramatically in a news blurb. Could yet prove to bring about the greatest advance in knowledge of our era.

And NASA got it right first time unlike the Hubble space telescope where the first images were blurred due to a fault with the mirror which had to be fixed by astronauts from the space shuttle.

[Gordon Bennett]

Yes always in remore parts of the USofA aren't they?, very raely if ever in the UK

Whats uncle Sam trying to hide or who does he want to scare then;?..

Seems the conspiracy therouists are denouncing the JWST images as fake, like we never went to the Moon;!.

I must admit I am staggered how folks are believing it. Surely the raw data is just a bunch of hiss, pops and static which some boffin "interprets" into a Rick Wakeman LP cover?

It reminds me of the goal line tech in footy when they flash up a image of the ball over the line. Even with the Nike logo magically being in centre frame, everyone solemnly nods and decides it must be a goal, look at the photographic evidence.







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[maxQ]

Yes I'm pretty sure the pictures shown to the media/public are tarted up

[Jabba the Slut]

Interesting stuff.
There are more stars in our Universe,than all the grains of sands on Earth.
There has to Alien life form of some sort out there....

[mr.bluesky]

Yes I'm pretty sure the pictures shown to the media/public are tarted up

Not quite. Without getting too technical the images from the James Webb telescope are invisible to the human eye as they are seen in the infrared and near infrared spectrum. White light from these stars and galaxy's get stretched into infrared light because of the vast distance they travel through space so a " normal " camera would not see anything. The images are laid on top of one another to produce the images we see. The image on the left shows the Southern ring nebula taken by the Hubble space telescope the one on the right taken by the James Webb telescope. Both look similar but the image from the Webb telescope is more clearer and has more detail. All the pictures from the Hubble telescope were actually taken in black and white and colour was added by colourization on the principle of red, green and blue light ( the primary colours) when we look at stars and galaxies in the night sky we are actually seeing them as they were millions (or billions of years ago in the case of Hubble or Webb telescope images) as it has taken that long for the light to reach us. As Jabba the slut says there are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on all the beaches and deserts on Earth. Mind boggling stuff

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[snaitram99]

Or as a bishop once said to me when I asked about another of the Bible's great and glaring inconsistencies, "This is one of the great mysteries!"
 

There are indeed numerous places with varying versions of things, but where does the Bible explicitly say that the Earth is flat?

[catweazle]

Or as a bishop once said to me when I asked about another of the Bible's great and glaring inconsistencies, "This is one of the great mysteries!"
 

Did you bash the Bishop when he said that,?

[catweazle]

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The telescope has suffered some unrepairable  damage.

[Marmalade]

Did you bash the Bishop when he said that,?

No, we were eating lunch. He wasn’t in uniform.

Biblical flat earth? Not very much either way. There’s the ‘four corners of the earth’ much as we use that phrase today. Quran can seem a bit more flat-earthish as it repeatedly states the earth is laid out like a carpet but never actually uses the word flat. The Torah goes back I understand to about 200BCE which is probably after the earth was considered spherical by the intelligentsia of the day. So I don’t think we can blame the major religions for flat-earthism, however much is tosh otherwise. The ‘difference of opinion’ I had called my friend out on is a common one, more easily substantiated, that is, Genesis in its ‘original’ Hebrew uses plural form that also combines male and female in it’s word for god, suggesting that the world was created not ‘by god’ but ‘by the gods, male and female’ so he declared the way it was now seen as male, singular, was ‘one of the great mysteries’. Actually I don’t believe it’s a mystery. OT beliefs can be traced back to worship of multiple gods. But let’s keep it anthropological!

[Marmalade]

More interesting astronomy. (British-built telescope. Not JW but this seemed a useful thread for anyone mildly interested).
No Klingons on the starboard bow as yet...

.                           Kapow!!

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Collisions of neutron stars creating gravitational waves (ripples in space-time caused by massive objects moving with extreme accelerations).
This has repercussions for how we understand the universe, especially the so-called "empty" space between lumps of matter, stars, planets etc. If Schrodinger were still alive he'd be jizzing his spectacles!