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Originally Posted by Sliver
I was expecting cooler as well. This is higher-res than what we've seen before, but it honestly - to my untrained eye - doesn't look like anything I haven't seen before. K, galaxies are swirly. Yeah, I knew that. There are a bazillion blobs of galaxies, nebulas, etc. in parts of space that look black from my backyard. Yeah, I knew that.
I'm super stoked astronomers are going to learn so much and it's great we have this, but I'm not blown away. I swear I saw a picture of what they just showed us on a poster in Spencer Gifts like four years ago.
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I guess I just don’t understand what was expected.
It’s a higher resolution, deeper looking, telescope. The images are going to be of stars, galaxies, nebula, dust clouds… they aren’t going to find brand new things that will visually shock you. It’s mostly going to be data driven, based on the infrared ability of the telescope. .
Also, I keep seeing this said, but they aren’t going to have surface pictures of exoplanets… that isn’t a capability it has. But they just said they detected water vapour in an exoplanet the size of Jupiter… so that is pretty awesome.