James Webb Telescope Thread

[bots]

The first pictures are in and are amazing with many more to come, so here they are

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our universe

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The carina nebula

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[Kate!]

Gorgeous

[Cherie]

Space is just fascinating

[UserSince2005]

Wheres the pictures of the aliens though? they hiding them from us?

[arista]

Wheres the pictures of the aliens though? they hiding them from us?


The USA Army keep them hidden.

[Mystic Mock]

Wow! They look really cool.

[bots]

The pillars of creation

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The US space agency Nasa has issued a second image of the famous "Pillars of Creation" taken by the new super space telescope, James Webb.

This week we get a rendering of the active star-forming region as seen by Webb's Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI).

Last week, it was the observatory's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) that was highlighting this remarkable location some 6,500 light-years from Earth.

The pillars lie at the heart of what astronomers refer to as Messier 16 (M16), or the Eagle Nebula.

They are the subject of intense study. Every great telescope is pointed in their direction to try to understand the physics and the chemistry in play as new stars are birthed in great clouds of gas and dust.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-63431578

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Absolutely fascinating

[The Slim Reaper]

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https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/news/data-turned-into-sounds-of-stars-galaxies-black-holes.html

[bots]

who would have thought doctor who was right all these years :shocked:

[arista]

Yes there is the 2nd Earth, up there

We will have to fight the beings,
when we take over.

[The Slim Reaper]

Yes there is the 2nd Earth, up there

We will have to fight the beings,
when we take over.

https://media.tenor.com/Wk7-YB9GIqwAAAAd/insanely-idiotic-things-ive-ever-heard.gif

[arista]

Sure Slim
you can stay on this older burning Earth

[UserSince2005]

i can confirm all these pictures are fakes.

[Zizu]

Yes there is the 2nd Earth, up there

We will have to fight the beings,
when we take over.


Step away from the drinks cabinet, Arista


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[bots]

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Jupiter-sized "planets" free-floating in space, unconnected to any star, have been spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).

What's intriguing about the discovery is that these objects appear to be moving in pairs. Astronomers are currently struggling to explain them.

The telescope observed about 40 pairs in a fabulously detailed new survey of the famous Orion Nebula.

They've been nicknamed Jupiter Mass Binary Objects, or "JuMBOs" for short.

One possibility is that these objects grew out of regions in the nebula where the density of material was insufficient to make fully fledged stars.

Another possibility is that they were made around stars and were then kicked out into interstellar space through various interactions.

"The ejection hypothesis is the favoured one at the moment," said Prof Mark McCaughrean.

"Gas physics suggests you shouldn't be able to make objects with the mass of Jupiter on their own, and we know single planets can get kicked out from star systems. But how do you kick out pairs of these things together? Right now, we don't have an answer. It's one for the theoreticians," the European Space Agency's (Esa) senior science adviser told BBC News.