Anyone looking forward to the James Webb Space Telescope images tomorrow ?

The high resolution images are literally, out of this world! 🤩

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A developing gallery of images featuring astronomical observations and informative science content around the Webb telescope (JWST) mission.
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Ash88 said:
Challenge. Accepted.

Proxima Centauri is approx. 4.246 light years away. One light year is 5.879 trillion miles.
So PC is 24.96 trillion miles away and the sun 93 million miles away.
This means PC is 268,411 times further away from the sun than the sun is from earth.

The length of the Riverside is 105 metres (0.065 miles).

If the earth was the Riverside stadium, and the sun was another Riverside stadium built directly behind the earth...

The third Riverside stadium would need to be built 17,446 miles away.
Sydney is only 10,000 miles away.
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Bravo. I like this post.
 
The technology is quite amazing which went into the design of this (James Webb) telescope, and was built down the road from me in Redondo Beach. The next land based observatory or observatories which are being build will be designed along the lines of the James Webb project but will have wider mirror arrays for better more accurate viewing. These [observatories] are also based on the search for alien-life forms/deep space science projects, although it's fair to say each university will have their own style of science projects. The great thing about the observatories is that the technology will basically allow most universities with science based projects to buy on-line time from the observatories so that science work can be done remotely without the need to travel.

Here's a link to the latest telescope technology projects:

Magellan.org
TMT.org
 
Watched the programme about it on BBC2 last night - really interesting
To think we will be able to see images from what could be around the beginning of time....
 
TeessideCleveland said:
Watched the programme about it on BBC2 last night - really interesting
To think we will be able to see images from what could be around the beginning of time....
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Yes, I caught that, sadly not from the beginning. Amazing programme.

Can you imagine the tension and the relief when they thought there was a problem deploying their shield, and then realised that it must have deployed?
 
TeessideCleveland said:
Watched the programme about it on BBC2 last night - really interesting
To think we will be able to see images from what could be around the beginning of time....
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That's a bit of an assumption, the beginning of time bit. Some cosmologists are beginning to doubt the big bang model. We don't see background radiation from the big bang but there may be some good answers to that. 1 being that the expansion at the edge of the observable universe is just too quick so the radiation would never reach us. In other words the expansion is much quicker than the speed of light. The second argument was the early universe was opaque.

Most scientist still think the big bang is the correct theory but then 500 years ago we believed the copernicus model.
 
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