Go knock on a car size piece of wood, Not lol
That’s is rad as fuck … curious how far back we’ll actually be able to look now
That’s is rad as fuck … curious how far back we’ll actually be able to look now
By Not Go To PostDamn, has ANYTHING gone wrong with Webb yet?
Nope. Spectacular, historic, elite+++ level engineering. The resolution is also higher than they expected. The entire thing is absolutely insane.
President Joe Biden is requesting a whopping $26 billion for NASA for 2023, roughly $2 billion more than the space agency received for the current fiscal year, according to newly released budget documents from the White House. If enacted as is, a third of that budget would go toward NASA’s Artemis program — the agency’s ambitious initiative to send humans back to the Moon.America back
By Patriotism Go To Postwe ready for some sweet sweet Webb pics in 50 mins?What's the future like 24hrs from now?
By Kabro Go To PostWhat's the future like 24hrs from now?
just as shitty as the present.
By Not Go To PostHere are the galaxies
ay yo
The image shows SMACS 0723, where a massive group of galaxy clusters act as a magnifying glass for the objects behind them. Called gravitational lensing, this created Webb's first deep field view of thousands of galaxies, including incredibly old and distant, faint ones.
"This slice of the vast universe covers a patch of sky approximately the size of a grain of sand held at arm's length by someone on the ground," according to a NASA release
"This slice of the vast universe covers a patch of sky approximately the size of a grain of sand held at arm's length by someone on the ground," according to a NASA release
Without a doubt there's some Mass Effect shit taking place somewhere in the universe wtf
By Smokey Go To Postay yoI assume they're not all roughly humanoid bipeds tho
Without a doubt there's some Mass Effect shit taking place somewhere in the universe wtf
I love earth sci fi, all the random factors like trees, climate, etc that created the appearance of its most powerful species is somehow a constant throughout the universe
By Daz Go To PostFermi Paradox is some bullshit.I think the problem is our own bias. We think we're really, really, really important
So much shit out there you probably couldn't sift through it in 13.5 billion years even by narrowing down what we're looking for. We're also looking for life/intelligence that's observable/understandable to us, i.e, inhabitable zones, etc
Hope you aren't suggesting that aliens are not sexy green women who have an insatiable appetite for William Shatner
Just a grain of sand spot filled to the brim with random fucking galaxies we will never ever know anything about.
Cool.
Cool.
Galaxies that are 13B light years away (so not too long after the Big Bang) that we previously weren't able to see, coming from a patch of sky the size of a grain of sand. Oh and with an exposure time of about 12hrs vs Hubble's Deep Field exposure of 22 days. From a telescope that is just now becoming operational.
Other than that, trash
Other than that, trash
By Daz Go To PostFermi Paradox is some bullshit.
I think wormholes and the bending of space time are all possible ways for us to get around this. Though they woukd require insane amounts of energy
James Webb deep field is something else
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the distinct signature of water, along with evidence for clouds and haze, in the atmosphere surrounding a hot, puffy gas giant planet orbiting a distant Sun-like star.
The observation, which reveals the presence of specific gas molecules based on tiny decreases in the brightness of precise colors of light, is the most detailed of its kind to date, demonstrating Webb’s unprecedented ability to analyze atmospheres hundreds of light-years away.
While the Hubble Space Telescope has analyzed numerous exoplanet atmospheres over the past two decades, capturing the first clear detection of water in 2013, Webb’s immediate and more detailed observation marks a giant leap forward in the quest to characterize potentially habitable planets beyond Earth.
Located in the southern-sky constellation Phoenix, WASP-96 b is 1,150 light-years away. It’s a large, hot planet with a “puffy” atmosphere, orbiting very close to its Sun-like star. In fact, its temperature is greater than 1000 degrees F (537 degrees C) — significantly hotter than any planet in our own solar system!Show me the dot of light then dammit
Please note that the illustration in the background of the image is based on what we know of WASP-96b. Webb hasn't directly imaged the planet or its atmosphere. (Fun fact: space is big and planets are small — though Webb CAN image exoplanets directly, the images would just show a dot of light. Consider that though Pluto is in our own solar system, it is still so far that we didn’t know what it really looked like until New Horizons visited it.)
someone pls hurry up and invent a computer to which I can upload my consciousness for the rest of time 😔
By inky Go To Postsomeone pls hurry up and invent a computer to which I can upload my consciousness for the rest of time 😔The light from our planet today is going to take a while to reach the other side of the universe
In that sense we're immortal
By DY_nasty Go To PostReally should start a space funeral business
By You got 14 bricks right there? Go To Posthonestly, 8/10 fictional military honors. doesn't get enough credit
By inky Go To PostNah, if it's dy it's more like the scene in Enemy Mineijs cremate and release ashes into space? not gonna be a Gene Roddenberry exclusive much longer
By DY_nasty Go To PostReally should start a space funeral businessPitch it to Elon lol