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Now we have this. That's pretty fucking phenomenal. #jwst
https://www.cnet.com/science/space/nasas-webb-space-telescope-stuns-with-deepest-infrared-image-of-the-universe-yet/
NASA's Webb Space Telescope Stuns With Most Detailed View of the Cosmos Yet
The most powerful space telescope delivers the highest-resolution image of the infrared universe we've ever seen.Jackson Ryan (CNET)
Check out this comparison of one of the newly released calibration images from the MIRI instrument compared to images taken of the same region of space by the WISE and Spitzer space telescopes! Look at that resolution! So many newly resolved stars and structures! 🤩
I can't wait for all the new discoveries we'll make with JWST! #Science data starts in only a couple months!
(Image from @/AndrasGasper on birdapp)
The mirrors are actually made of Beryllium, which is a very strong and lightweight metal, and are coated in a very thin layer of gold. The total amount of gold on #JWST is only about the size of a marble!
Why gold? Gold is VERY efficient at reflecting infrared light! JWST is designed to search for this heat in the early universe
The scariest part was the sunshield tensioning! The sunshield is the pink/grey part and is used to keep the mirrors and instruments nice and cold so we can see the very faint heat from the early universe!
#Science #SciComm
Between meetings today I thought I'd talk about #NASA #JWST and all the exciting #science we can expect from it starting in a few months!
(Yes, I made this travel mug ❤️)
#SciComm #Exoplanets #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Telescope #MastodonNewbie
JWST is orbiting a point in space called L2, a gravitationally stable point nearly a million miles beyond Earth.
In this gif, the sun is at the center, Earth is the large blue dot, and you can see JWST orbiting an empty point in space beyond Earth. This is not to scale!