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Post by Maestro on Jul 11, 2022 20:57:41 GMT
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Post by Maestro on Jul 11, 2022 21:11:22 GMT
Apparently it just got bumped to 5:30 EST.
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Post by Maestro on Jul 11, 2022 21:13:13 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2022 21:17:03 GMT
So that means it's still minutes away.
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Post by Odysseus on Jul 11, 2022 22:12:44 GMT
Still hasn't started.
I tried to link in at the original time, and gave up after about 30 minutes. Now it seems mired in mud again.
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Post by Maestro on Jul 11, 2022 22:14:13 GMT
It just started.
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Post by Odysseus on Jul 11, 2022 22:18:39 GMT
OK, it just started. I've got both links playing, LOL.
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Post by Odysseus on Jul 11, 2022 22:24:11 GMT
Awesome.
Trumputin ain't got nothing to compare with this.
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Post by Maestro on Jul 11, 2022 22:30:09 GMT
That was pretty cool. If you get a chance to watch it, I recommend it. It's only a few minutes.
More images are to be released tomorrow.
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Post by Odysseus on Jul 11, 2022 22:44:51 GMT
Yes, it was cool.
But WAY too brief.
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Post by Fiddler on Jul 11, 2022 22:55:49 GMT
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Post by Maestro on Jul 11, 2022 22:57:34 GMT
My favorite part was when he said that image represents a portion of the sky that you could cover up by holding up a grain of sand at arm's length. Amazing. |
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Post by Fiddler on Jul 11, 2022 23:01:32 GMT
My favorite part was when he said that image represents a portion of the sky that you could cover up by holding up a grain of sand at arm's length. Amazing.
The smears are from gravitational lensing.. (predicted by Einstein's General Relativity) Light from a more distant galaxy is distorted as it passes a galaxy in the foreground ..
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Post by Maestro on Jul 11, 2022 23:06:57 GMT
My favorite part was when he said that image represents a portion of the sky that you could cover up by holding up a grain of sand at arm's length. Amazing.
The smears are from gravitational lensing.. (predicted by Einstein's General Relativity) Light from a more distant galaxy is distorted as it passes a galaxy in the foreground ..
Pfft. That's what they want you to think. An alien spacecraft obviously bumped the telescope. Seriously though, that's pretty cool info. I'm looking forward to tomorrow's pictures. |
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Post by Fiddler on Jul 11, 2022 23:13:44 GMT
The smears are from gravitational lensing.. (predicted by Einstein's General Relativity) Light from a more distant galaxy is distorted as it passes a galaxy in the foreground ..
Pfft. That's what they want you to think. An alien spacecraft obviously bumped the telescope. Seriously though, that's pretty cool info. I'm looking forward to tomorrow's pictures. I hope they do the Pillars of Creation .. as a comparison to Hubble's famous shot ..
The JW 'sees' in infrared.. It will be able to peer inside such structures to view star formation..
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Post by Odysseus on Jul 11, 2022 23:34:54 GMT
The size of the universe is mind-boggling.
There MUST be other life, intelligent life, even more intelligent than humans, out there.
However if they are really smart, they'd avoid Earth like the plague.
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Post by atreyu on Jul 11, 2022 23:47:11 GMT
Thanks for sharing.
The technology that went into to that and the number of things that had to go perfect is just mind boggling. We can truly accomplish anything we want to, we just have to want to.
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Post by atreyu on Jul 11, 2022 23:49:40 GMT
My favorite part was when he said that image represents a portion of the sky that you could cover up by holding up a grain of sand at arm's length. Amazing.
So I'm listening to the video, don't know if they'll cover this, but the reason for the lens flares on the stars being in that spiky shape is because of the hexagonal mirrors. Hubble had it's own lens flares that were completely different due to being a different shape of mirror.
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Post by Odysseus on Jul 12, 2022 0:59:25 GMT
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Post by Mercy for All on Jul 12, 2022 2:16:57 GMT
Clear gravitational lensing. Spectacular. |
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