which reminded me of this classic advertscrumpyjack wrote:Our alien 'friends' would be extremely advanced by our standards
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLYNoejZcv0
which reminded me of this classic advertscrumpyjack wrote:Our alien 'friends' would be extremely advanced by our standards
Yes, I did note the horizontal lines - segmented rather than continuous like the others. Artefact of the optics in the instrument section? Interesting, all the lines in the Hubble image are similarly segmented. The plot thickens!mc2fool wrote:Hallucigenia: thanks for the explanation.![]()
Both: but the big star in the centre has 8 points, the two horizontal ones being weaker than the 6 others. And the one at the top right has 12 with the horizontal ones being amongst the brightest, as are with the umm, multi pointed one that's pretty much horizontal with the big star and about a quarter way into it from the left hand side...
Be careful that could be viewed as a contract and for all we know under alien law all such contracts with aliens have to be settled in the form of anal probes.GoSeigen wrote:Why would we send a mission to repair it when we could just hold a big placard up at the Jubilee flypast saying "Dear UFO, please fix the hole in our telescope"?odysseus2000 wrote: Is the telescope manufactured in a way that would facilitate a repair mission to repair damage, the sort of thing that was done with Hubble to correct errors in the optics.
Regards,
GS
If they stick the probe in the hole that's exactly what we need...ursaminortaur wrote:Be careful that could be viewed as a contract and for all we know under alien law all such contracts with aliens have to be settled in the form of anal probes.GoSeigen wrote: Why would we send a mission to repair it when we could just hold a big placard up at the Jubilee flypast saying "Dear UFO, please fix the hole in our telescope"?
GS
Maybe they are extremely conscientious about littering - but certainly, if they are here, they aren't like the aliens in "Roadside Picnic"GoSeigen wrote:If they stick the probe in the hole that's exactly what we need...ursaminortaur wrote: Be careful that could be viewed as a contract and for all we know under alien law all such contracts with aliens have to be settled in the form of anal probes.
Just an observation, where ever humans go they leave an extraordinary amount of litter behind. With all these aliens flying around our cities and skies, why do we so seldom find alien crisp packets and beer bottles thrown out of their windows? Maybe it was an errant bottle top that hit the JW telescope?
GS
I wouldn't overthink an image from an instrument that is still not properly set up. I'd cut them some slack until they've got it running properly.mc2fool wrote:Both: but the big star in the centre has 8 points, the two horizontal ones being weaker than the 6 others. And the one at the top right has 12 with the horizontal ones being amongst the brightest, as are with the umm, multi pointed one that's pretty much horizontal with the big star and about a quarter way into it from the left hand side...
XFool wrote:WHERE IS WEBB?
https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunc ... =147537628
Nearly there now!
"First images - July 12"
"We are counting down to July 12, 2022 when NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a partnership with ESA (European Space Agency) and the Canadian Space Agency, will release its first full-color images and spectroscopic data."
Here you go -mike wrote:
Another Webb vs Hubble here, this time for the Carina Nebula. An unbelievable difference, absolutely breathtaking
Webb https://twitter.com/NASAWebb/status/154 ... 93/photo/1
Hubble https://twitter.com/NASAWebb/status/154 ... 00/photo/1
I can't see how to post the pictures directly, if anyone else can it would be wonderful to see them embedded here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FWO1Pvbhq4My take on the images released by the JWST earlier this week, a whole new level of detail is now possible with this new instrument. Moreover, I wanted to answer some questions about what we're seeing in the images, and, why the stars have 8 points while Hubble images only show 4.
Nooo! It is specifically an infra-red telescope. That defines pretty well everything about its design, location and operating temperature (very cold).1nvest wrote:The James Webb telescope is of course limited to visible light
More than one universeBubblesofearth wrote: How can the galaxy be 35bn LY's away if the universe is only 13.8bn years old?
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