Topic: James Webb Space Telescope update thread!
21bitch !eCZNmSIqCg started this discussion 3 years ago #103,692
The JWST which launched last December is now fully aligned, and high-resolution images are expected to start coming in June or July. I will be providing occasional updates, including photographs when possible. You can contribute as well if you'd like! If you don't know much of anything about the JWST, I recommend looking through nasa.gov which has a wide variety of resources, or watching YouTube videos about it.Here's some quotes from the latest update:
> Alignment of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is now complete. After full review, the observatory has been confirmed to be capable of capturing crisp, well-focused images with each of its four powerful onboard science instruments. Upon completing the seventh and final stage of telescope alignment, the team held a set of key decision meetings and unanimously agreed that Webb is ready to move forward into its next and final series of preparations, known as science instrument commissioning. This process will take about two months before scientific operations begin in the summer.
> The optical performance of the telescope continues to be better than the engineering team’s most optimistic predictions. The image quality delivered to all instruments is “diffraction-limited,” meaning that the fineness of detail that can be seen is as good as physically possible given the size of the telescope. From this point forward the only changes to the mirrors will be very small, periodic adjustments to the primary mirror segments.
> The alignment of the telescope across all of Webb’s instruments can be seen in a series of images that captures the observatory’s full field of view. For this test, Webb pointed at part of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, providing a dense field of hundreds of thousands of stars across all the observatory’s sensors. The sizes and positions of the images shown here depict the relative arrangement of each of Webb’s instruments in the telescope’s focal plane, each pointing at a slightly offset part of the sky relative to one another.
Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 3 years ago, 4 hours later[^] [v] #1,169,132
21bitch !eCZNmSIqCg (OP) replied with this 3 years ago, 2 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,169,133
@previous (B)
Thanks for letting me know! I'll move my convo there.
Everyone ignore this thread and go to the one mentioned above!
Thanks for letting me know! I'll move my convo there.
Everyone ignore this thread and go to the one mentioned above!
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Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 3 years ago, 3 hours later, 8 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,169,157
this is illegal hate speech, the JW space telescope is homophobic
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21bitch !eCZNmSIqCg (OP) replied with this 3 years ago, 3 hours later, 13 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,169,204
@1,169,157 (C)
I do think it should have been renamed, but there's thousands of things in the U.S. named after horrible people, so it's not a big deal to me.
I do think it should have been renamed, but there's thousands of things in the U.S. named after horrible people, so it's not a big deal to me.