07-12-2022, 01:14 PM
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#241
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Powerplay Quarterback
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The pictures are cool. I watched a quick video last night explaining what we were seeing. They talked a bit about gravitational lensing and how it stretches the images of the galaxies and how two streaks on either side of the cluster could actually be the same galaxy.
Images are not what I am excited about. Even learning about the early formation of galaxies is interesting, but not what I am looking forward to. What I really want to see is the spectrum data from exoplanets. I want to know if any of the water planets in the Trappist system have atmospheres with oxygen and water vapour. I want to know if they have seasonal changes in CO2. In short, I want evidence of life out there!
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07-12-2022, 01:32 PM
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#242
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First Line Centre
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Originally Posted by pseudoreality
I want to know if any of the water planets in the Trappist system have atmospheres with oxygen and water vapour. I want to know if they have seasonal changes in CO2. In short, I want evidence of life out there!
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Yup, can't wait!
https://www.planetary.org/articles/j...ope-trappist-1
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According to the JWST Science Policy Group, over the next year, JWST will spend a full quarter of its time studying exoplanets, and 8.2% of its exoplanet observations staring at the distant star TRAPPIST-1. Claims are flying about discovering everything from thermal emission, signatures of water, and even signs of life on the planets orbiting TRAPPIST-1.
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07-12-2022, 01:48 PM
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#243
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Scoring Winger
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For a bit of context NASA was not going to step on any teams of scientists' toes by pointing this telescope at any of the "cool stuff". I'd like to think of it as a thunder dome style battle between the scientists' to get time on this telescope because its going to be printing out Nobel prizes for the next 20+ years long after it has run out of fuel and is decommissioned and/or replaced.
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07-12-2022, 01:51 PM
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#244
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If I remember correctly the Webb has had all of it's time already booked and scheduled for its lifespan.
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07-12-2022, 02:37 PM
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#245
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https://imgsli.com/MTE2Mzgy
Slider Comparison tool of the level of improvement in the image over Hubble.
Incredible detail.
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07-12-2022, 03:03 PM
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#246
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Pent-up
Join Date: Mar 2018
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https://webb.nasa.gov/content/multimedia/images.html
Findings like this are going to be really interesting, especially when more teams get their hands on the telescope for their turn to point it at something they’re studying: 
Some info on WASP-96b
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WASP-96b is a gas giant exoplanet. Its mass is 0.48 Jupiters. It is 0.0453 AU from the class G star WASP-96, which it orbits every 3.4 days. It is about 1120 light-years away from Earth, in the constellation Phoenix. It was discovered in 2013 by the Wide Angle Search for Planets (WASP).
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07-12-2022, 03:13 PM
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#247
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by Knut
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Yeah, I'm not sure how someone could say the JWST isn't a big improvement over Hubble. The level of detail in this image is significantly better. 
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07-12-2022, 03:26 PM
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#248
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tromboner
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Google doodle for posterity.
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07-12-2022, 03:45 PM
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#249
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by SebC
Google doodle for posterity.
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I might have to dress up as the JWST for Halloween...
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07-12-2022, 03:46 PM
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Pent-up
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Originally Posted by Huntingwhale
Yeah, I'm not sure how someone could say the JWST isn't a big improvement over Hubble. The level of detail in this image is significantly better. |
It’s easy when you believe that scientists just threw it into the sky having no idea what it would do or provide us with, let alone having that information available for 20 years, so you made up a bunch of hopes in your mind that would be cool but aren’t physically possible with todays tech.
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07-12-2022, 03:52 PM
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#251
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evil of fart
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Originally Posted by Nammer403
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Yeah, I'm not sure how someone could say the JWST isn't a big improvement over Hubble. The level of detail in this image is significantly better. |
Perhaps because we're seeing different images claimed to be Hubble's and in the one on the slider it is edited to look totally janky compared to the other photo posted by Nammer where the differences between Hubble and JW aren't as pronounced?
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07-12-2022, 03:57 PM
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#252
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Pent-up
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Originally Posted by Sliver
Perhaps because we're seeing different images claimed to be Hubble's and in the one on the slider it is edited to look totally janky compared to the other photo posted by Nammer where the differences between Hubble and JW aren't as pronounced?
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The one on the right by nammer? That’s the infrared image… the primary purpose of the JWST.
Hubble image link… not edited as you claim. That’s what it looked like for Hubble. https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...ature_443.html
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07-12-2022, 04:09 PM
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#253
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evil of fart
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Originally Posted by Scroopy Noopers
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Wait, WTF? That Nammer image is both JWST?
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07-12-2022, 04:12 PM
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#254
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Pent-up
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Originally Posted by Sliver
Wait, WTF? That Nammer image is both JWST?
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Correct.
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07-12-2022, 04:13 PM
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#255
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evil of fart
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Originally Posted by Scroopy Noopers
Correct.
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I see. I thought one half was JWST and the other half was Hubble. That mistake certainly colours a lot of what I have said throughout this thread.
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07-12-2022, 04:22 PM
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Pent-up
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You can make up for it with a “Telescopes are a waste, they should all be converted into bongs” thread. Which I would totally read.
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07-12-2022, 05:32 PM
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#257
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07-12-2022, 05:54 PM
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#258
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Franchise Player
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What if they are looking at us looking at them? I’m going outside to give them a wee wave.
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07-12-2022, 07:51 PM
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#259
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Our Jessica Fletcher
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I wanted to see an image of 2 aliens having sex. This has been a major letdown.
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07-12-2022, 10:00 PM
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#260
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Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
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Originally Posted by Old Yeller
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I watched Nova last week about stars - Trappist-1 will burn for a very long time, while the universe goes dark:
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TRAPPIST-1 is expected to shine for ten trillion years—about 700 times longer than the present age of the Universe—while the Sun will leave the main sequence (run out of hydrogen[i]) in a few billion years.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRAPPI...period_and_age
Also, the planets there are likely tidally locked. Might be “lousy” for life:
https://www.futurity.org/trappist-1-...-zone-2040722/
Last edited by troutman; 07-12-2022 at 10:09 PM.
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