Images from the JWST of planets in our solar system will be equally underwhelming in terms of how they look. A picture hundreds of millions of km away is always going to be worse than a picture with a close up probe.
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Originally Posted by Sliver
Yes, but where I'm befuddled is how all the average joes are getting themselves all worked up about this. Frankly, they're just not that exciting unless maybe you haven't ever seen pictures of space before. It's a little sharper, but that's the extent of it.
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It's not a "little" sharper, it's orders of magnitudes sharper with details that simply weren't visible.
There's little difference between a picture of the mountains from Calgary and from Banff, it's just a little sharper...
Plus knowing about something is sometimes a factor in appreciating it. One person can listen to some music and say "that's nice" while another can cry over it because they know music and know how much talent and hard work it took to play and only 10 people on earth can do it.
I find the pictures great, I see an incredible increase in detail which means an increase in data and what we'll be able to learn.
If other people enjoying something you don't befuddles you, well join the club because there's tons of things people do and enjoy that I can't comprehend.