It's the amount of faint objects still peppering the shot that's the real kicker...and the fact that the exposure time was hours, not days. Still got a ways to go.
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Sassy Colombian
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Simply amazing!
Death
I'll take down dat coal powered MG, I tel u Hwat
Hundreds and hundreds of trillions of planets in that observable patch that probably doesn't make up 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001(maybe a more zeros than GOT can store) of the universe.
The NASA statement said, of you hold a grain of rice, at arms length to the sky, that picture represents less than half that grain of rice
chrismpw
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Fir comparison - the famous Hubble deep field picture was a fingertip at arm's length. This is many orders of magnitude better.
If they could just point it my way hopefully they can find my car keys.
Stupid question but are the colours in that picture real or are they added to help distinguish different objects.
Rita_Poon
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So still no capable of finding integrity on a (front) bench then...you decide which.
What are they doing with hubble?
is the webb orbit similar? I ask because of the 'space trash' issue.
Death
I'll take down dat coal powered MG, I tel u Hwat
Real. I believe the red and blue has something to do if its moving away from us or not. Something like that. Itsbhow the frequency of light is transmitted by either how far away or how its moving
chrismpw
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Dunno about the orbit - I expect they spent a lot of time doing maths to make it a safe one - but its already been damaged by space junk!
They'll keep using hubble for all kinds of research that doesn't need the higher resolving power of the James Webb until it packs in I guess. I mean its up there - you're not going to find it on a car boot stall any time soon!
chrismpw
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The image is taken in the infra red - which isn't a colour you can see. A computer processes it to represent the colours you 'could' see if they weren't moving away from us and shifting the light into infra red. Its like recording a rumble then speeding up playback until it becomes a squeak.
Sassy Colombian
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This might melt your brain. You can mess around with the image in the second link
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Explore JWST’s first image in full resolution!
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trueblue84
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They need to start manufacturing $10bn security cameras!
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