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Bula Vinaka
Oct 21, 2020

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find planet x

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Bula Vinaka
Oct 21, 2020

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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

Bula Vinaka
Oct 21, 2020

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CBD Corndog posted:

They're also available here:
https://webbtelescope.org/resource-gallery/images

Including a 12K 124MB PNG of the nebula

Not anymore... all images broken for me.

Bula Vinaka
Oct 21, 2020

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All of this is absolutely great, all the pictures are great...

but....

I wanted to see a real non blurry pic of a planet not in our own solar system.

Where's my exoplanet pic?

Where is it?

:\

Bula Vinaka
Oct 21, 2020

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How are u posted:

Avatar 2: The Way of Water comes out in December of this year.

1) that's not a real one

2) i can watch blue cat people on gumball reruns

Bula Vinaka
Oct 21, 2020

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Bad Purchase posted:

those old rear end galaxies might have life in them now, we just need to wait another 13 billion years to find out if they did or didn't at this moment

what we need, basically, is a stargate

Bula Vinaka
Oct 21, 2020

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Bula Vinaka
Oct 21, 2020

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Karia posted:

Oh, yeah, that's Paul.

And he's actually a sabre toothed tiger.

Bula Vinaka
Oct 21, 2020

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The best episode

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuo0ghR4tFw

(Outer space shows are for children and stupid people.)

Bula Vinaka
Oct 21, 2020

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The moon smells like exploded firecrackers.

Most of the space stations smell like your garage.

Bula Vinaka
Oct 21, 2020

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Demon Of The Fall posted:

It was mentioned before but a few weeks ago the telescope got smacked by a tiny meteor and it did some good damage



That's not good... it's only been deployed for a short while so far, so it's probably going to get more strikes like this. :(

Edit:

"Engineers are still modeling how frequently such events will occur. "It is not yet clear whether the May 2022 hit to segment C3 was a rare event," the team wrote. By "rare," they said it is possible that they happened to get a high-energy impact that should statistically happen only once every few years.

Alternatively, it may be that Webb is "more susceptible to damage by micrometeoroids than pre-launch modeling predicted," the team wrote. Modeling is ongoing to estimate the hazardous population of micrometeoroids and to figure out remedies, such as restricting pointing direction.

One remedy could be minimizing the amount of time Webb points directly into its orbital direction, "which statistically has higher micrometeoroid rates and energies," the team wrote.

Main mirror performance is assessed by how much it deforms starlight, according to Astronomy magazine, and measured using what scientists call wavefront error root mean square. When Webb's mission began, the affected C3 segment had a wavefront error of 56 nanometers rms, which was in line with the 17 other mirror portions.

Post-impact, however, the error increased to 258 nm rms, but realignments to the mirror segments as a whole reduced the overall impact to just 59 nm rms. For the time being, the team wrote Webb's alignment is well within performance limits, as the realigned mirror segments are "about 5-10 nm rms above the previous best wavefront error rms values."

From https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-micrometeoroid-damage.

Bula Vinaka fucked around with this message at 06:21 on Jul 25, 2022

Bula Vinaka
Oct 21, 2020

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You Are A Elf posted:

Those galaxies are 500 million light years away and we are seeing them as if they’re just around the corner :aaaaa:

And as they were 500 million years ago.

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Bula Vinaka
Oct 21, 2020

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Captain Invictus posted:

that's all I can see



it's goddamn bahamut zero

That dragon, is farting

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