James Webb Space Telescope (1 Viewer)

[Scorpius the Allfather]

 

[CoolBrees]

Chuck - Let’s do a better job of cred checking our astro-physicists shall we?

Not recognizing the Bernard 68 nebula? Really?

What’s next? Mistaking the Kuiper belt for Oort Cloud!?!

 

[Saint_Ward]

 

[Optimus Prime]

Hubble says don't forget about me! I'm still good!

Of course, let’s have Webb take that same picture and see the results
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With all of the hullabaloo about the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the Hubble Telescope is feeling a little lost in the fray. But a recent image shared by the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA shows that Hubble still has the chops to produce some seriously stunning results. The image depicts an otherworldly globular cluster...........

MSN

 

[Optimus Prime]

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has taken a picture of one of the strangest galaxies in the universe. The details of the Cartwheel galaxy are obscured by dust, which has made studying it difficult, but the new images from JWST peer through to reveal this weird galaxy in more detail than ever before.

The Cartwheel galaxy is about 500 million light years away and measures about 150,000 light years across. Researchers believe that it was most likely a spiral galaxy similar to the Milky Way before one of its companion galaxies blasted through it like a bullet through a target, sending waves of stars and gas rippling out from the galaxy’s centre and creating the nested ring shapes that we see today...........

JWST has released a striking new image of the strange Cartwheel galaxy

 

[Optimus Prime]

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has caught two galaxies colliding. In the midst of this cosmic clash, researchers have found something unexpected – there doesn’t seem to be an active supermassive black hole in either galaxy.

The pair of galaxies, called IC 1623 or VV 114, is about 275 million light years away in the direction of the constellation Cetus. Lee Armus at the California Institute of Technology and his colleagues observed them with JWST as part of a campaign to spot four relatively nearby, bright galaxy mergers and figure out how they work.

“A merger brings dramatic changes to the galaxy’s shape and content and pretty much everything, so we really have to understand this process to figure out how galaxies evolve,” says Vivian U at the University of California, Irvine, part of the team conducting this research.

As two galaxies orbit one another and collide, they rip huge streams of material off one another and create massive shock waves that pass through both galaxies. Both of these processes are highlighted in the red splotches in this image, which are star-forming regions shrouded in dust. They were most likely spurred into activity by the shock waves...........

MSN

 

[Sailorsaint]

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has caught two galaxies colliding. In the midst of this cosmic clash, researchers have found something unexpected – there doesn’t seem to be an active supermassive black hole in either galaxy.

The pair of galaxies, called IC 1623 or VV 114, is about 275 million light years away in the direction of the constellation Cetus. Lee Armus at the California Institute of Technology and his colleagues observed them with JWST as part of a campaign to spot four relatively nearby, bright galaxy mergers and figure out how they work.

“A merger brings dramatic changes to the galaxy’s shape and content and pretty much everything, so we really have to understand this process to figure out how galaxies evolve,” says Vivian U at the University of California, Irvine, part of the team conducting this research.

As two galaxies orbit one another and collide, they rip huge streams of material off one another and create massive shock waves that pass through both galaxies. Both of these processes are highlighted in the red splotches in this image, which are star-forming regions shrouded in dust. They were most likely spurred into activity by the shock waves...........

MSN

Makes me think twice that Earth will survive the Andromeda merge.

 

[Zack Lee]

I can only change the screen saver photo on my phone so many times…. There is always something better.

 

[GrandAdmiral]

Makes me think twice that Earth will survive the Andromeda merge.

Yeah. I've read several stories that said the Earth had a good chance of surviving the merger (just not the Sun's demise) of the galaxies. This, not so much. Even if we're in the outer bands of the galaxy, those shock waves look destructive to say the least.

 

[antipop]

is the galaxy merge happening before the sun dying and expanding or after??

gotta make plans...thanks in advance

 

[Optimus Prime]

A world-renowned scientist has been forced to apologise after he shared what he claimed was a stunning picture of a star – and turned out to be a slice of chorizo.

Étienne Klein, a celebrated French physicist, shared an image of what he said was Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to Earth. He said the picture had been taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, from which a host of stunning images had been revealed in recent weeks……

Scientist forced to apologise after ‘picture of star’ turns out to be chorizo

‘I come to present my apologies to those whom my hoax may have shocked,’ renowned physicist Étienne Klein said

www.independent.co.uk

 

[gummbo70114]

A world-renowned scientist has been forced to apologise after he shared what he claimed was a stunning picture of a star – and turned out to be a slice of chorizo.

Étienne Klein, a celebrated French physicist, shared an image of what he said was Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to Earth. He said the picture had been taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, from which a host of stunning images had been revealed in recent weeks……

Scientist forced to apologise after ‘picture of star’ turns out to be chorizo

‘I come to present my apologies to those whom my hoax may have shocked,’ renowned physicist Étienne Klein said

www.independent.co.uk

I caramba!

 

[Sailorsaint]

A world-renowned scientist has been forced to apologise after he shared what he claimed was a stunning picture of a star – and turned out to be a slice of chorizo.

Étienne Klein, a celebrated French physicist, shared an image of what he said was Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to Earth. He said the picture had been taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, from which a host of stunning images had been revealed in recent weeks……

Scientist forced to apologise after ‘picture of star’ turns out to be chorizo

‘I come to present my apologies to those whom my hoax may have shocked,’ renowned physicist Étienne Klein said

www.independent.co.uk

So, wait, he did it on purpose, right? He didn't actually think it was a shot of Proxima Centauri. I couldn't read the article, so I'm extrapolating here.

 

[Optimus Prime]

So, wait, he did it on purpose, right? He didn't actually think it was a shot of Proxima Centauri. I couldn't read the article, so I'm extrapolating here.

Yes it was a joke

 

[Big_L]

Scientist admits 'space telescope image' was actually a slice of chorizo

A French scientist has apologized after tweeting a photo of a slice of chorizo, claiming it was an image of a distant star taken by the James Webb Space Telescope.

amp.cnn.com

I had to repost, too funny!