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hot cocoa on the couch posted:gently caress did i miss the launch? i was at work Santa? Is that you? 
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Demon Of The Fall posted:5 days until NASA reveals the first images from Webb, and they are having a live broadcast which should be fun. They also released a test image that casually is the deepest view of the universe we've probably seen. I can't wait to see what this baby can really do. Wow crazy to think that G*d, the good man in the sky, put all those spiral galaxies full of hundreds of millions of stars and planets each just for us, even though we couldn't see them without this incredible telescope. He just hid them all out there for us, waiting to find it.
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Jul 8, 2022 00:05
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Bro that poo poo gonna take a pic of the fuckin Big Bang dude
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AHH F/UGH posted:Wow crazy to think that G*d, the good man in the sky, put all those spiral galaxies full of hundreds of millions of stars and planets each just for us, even though we couldn't see them without this incredible telescope. He just hid them all out there for us, waiting to find it. What a strange and non sequitur post
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Jul 8, 2022 07:46
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I hope civilization collapses completely right after they post the image.
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Jul 8, 2022 14:02
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It'll be the image of G_d goatseing Himself and accidentally pooping out our reality
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Colonel Cancer posted:It'll be the image of G_d goatseing Himself and accidentally pooping out our reality “Today we saw new images of the Orion Nebula and, uh, wow.”
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Negostrike posted:Bro that poo poo gonna take a pic of the fuckin Big Bang dude I think the light from the big bang is far beyond our observable universe at this point
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Jul 8, 2022 15:09
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I think the Webb is designed to be able to see 100 million years after the big bang, so that is pretty close Also at some point today they will be releasing the 10? or so targets for the first images, and some of the people working on the thing have already been quoted that the images they've seen have "moved them to tears"
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Jul 8, 2022 15:12
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Demon Of The Fall posted:some of the people working on the thing have already been quoted that the images they've seen have "moved them to tears" That space rock that hit the mirror actually ruined the Webb and the July 12 presentation will just be the first ten minutes of Up.
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Jul 8, 2022 16:00
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Negostrike posted:Bro that poo poo gonna take a pic of the fuckin Big Bang dude Didn't realize they got a picture of how you were conceived op.
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Jul 8, 2022 16:00
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Seth Pecksniff posted:I think the light from the big bang is far beyond our observable universe at this point The big bang happened everywhere, so it's not really about being far. The big bang happened where you are sitting, and where the most distant thing the JWST sees. Everything was all in one place then. The answer is kinda yes and no: the Cosmic Microwave Background is in many ways the light of the big bang. It's the oldest light in the universe, the first light that was possible to travel any distance. Before that the universe was too dense and hot for light to move without instantly hitting anything. It had to expand and cool down to become transparent. But that happened 370,000 years after the actual instant of the big bang, so it's also not exactly like seeing the big bang itself. But it's the oldest thing it is possible to see.
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AHH F/UGH posted:Wow crazy to think that G*d, the good man in the sky, put all those spiral galaxies full of hundreds of millions of stars and planets each just for us, even though we couldn't see them without this incredible telescope. He just hid them all out there for us, waiting to find it. Wrong, God created humanity and humanity created the universe by observing the void like Schrodinger's Cat. Every time we create a powerful space telescope that lets us see farther into the universe, the bigger it becomes and this is the real reason the expansion is speeding up, not because of dark energy.
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Jul 8, 2022 16:27
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they call it the cosmic microwave background yet i've never seen an astronaut hold a burrito out while on a spacewalk and have it heat up so they can eat it. makes you think...
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https://twitter.com/NASAWebb/status/1545413807996129280?s=20&t=5_9fpKZga7TW9AazHV71Bg Carina Nebula. The Carina Nebula is one of the largest and brightest nebulae in the sky, located approximately 7,600 light-years away in the southern constellation Carina. Nebulae are stellar nurseries where stars form. The Carina Nebula is home to many massive stars, several times larger than the Sun. WASP-96 b (spectrum). WASP-96 b is a giant planet outside our solar system, composed mainly of gas. The planet, located nearly 1,150 light-years from Earth, orbits its star every 3.4 days. It has about half the mass of Jupiter, and its discovery was announced in 2014. Southern Ring Nebula. The Southern Ring, or “Eight-Burst” nebula, is a planetary nebula – an expanding cloud of gas, surrounding a dying star. It is nearly half a light-year in diameter and is located approximately 2,000 light years away from Earth. Stephan’s Quintet: About 290 million light-years away, Stephan’s Quintet is located in the constellation Pegasus. It is notable for being the first compact galaxy group ever discovered in 1877. Four of the five galaxies within the quintet are locked in a cosmic dance of repeated close encounters. SMACS 0723: Massive foreground galaxy clusters magnify and distort the light of objects behind them, permitting a deep field view into both the extremely distant and intrinsically faint galaxy populations.
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Jul 8, 2022 16:52
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Point it at some of those earth like planets we discover all the time and see if there’s any satellites or Russian space stations.
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LuckyCat posted:Point it at some of those earth like planets we discover all the time and see if there’s any satellites or Russian space stations. I wonder if they can point it at proxima without getting drowned out with a flare.
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Jul 8, 2022 18:40
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Lawman 0 posted:Didn't realize they got a picture of how you were conceived op. 
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Demon Of The Fall posted:https://twitter.com/NASAWebb/status/1545413807996129280?s=20&t=5_9fpKZga7TW9AazHV71Bg sid meier's alpha centauri is one of the greatest games ever made but i'm not sure its old enough to have required a $10bn telescope to play it
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Jul 8, 2022 21:04
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Klyith posted:The big bang happened where you are sitting Hey, same to you buddy! 
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Stephan’s Quintet is gonna be insanely good
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Jul 8, 2022 22:34
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Bula Vinaka posted:find planet x It turns out we're still looking for planet 9 because Pluto was never a planet.
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Seth Pecksniff posted:I think the light from the big bang is far beyond our observable universe at this point ... is this a reference?
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AHH F/UGH posted:Stephan’s Quintet is gonna be insanely good If anything it'll reveal all the junk floating between the four interacting galaxies which should be interesting (the fifth member is a foreground object that is coincidental)
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Demon Of The Fall posted:some of the people working on the thing have already been quoted that the images they've seen have "moved them to tears" 
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Why are the centers of the brightest stars blotted out? What's NASA trying to hide?!
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This was supposed to be an empty patch of space behind the stars. And this was just a calibration image 
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vortmax posted:This was supposed to be an empty patch of space behind the stars. And this was just a calibration image All those galaxies poofed into existence because humanity made a powerful space telescope capable of observing them, Schrodinger's cat is alive and well. Edit: Oh now I see the pig balls.
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gently caress you space rocks! 
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trying to explain to my wife why I'm cackling at a photo of stars
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Bula Vinaka posted:find planet x Scanning…
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Yaldabaoth posted:Why are the centers of the brightest stars blotted out? What's NASA trying to hide?! Oversaturation of the thermal sensors causes them to register as black
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BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:Scanning… Semi-major axis: 380 +140/−80 AU (300–520 AU) Perihelion: 300 +85/−60 AU Orbital inclination: 16 ±5° Mass: 6.2 +2.2/−1.3 Earth masses
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Represent ‘look at that pigs huge balls’ in a formula
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sensor poo poo is so cool and when I look at the science and engineering behind it reminds me that my IQ is actually chipmunk
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