Saturn's moon Titan imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope

[beschizza]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/04/24/saturns-moon-titan-imaged-by-the-james-webb-space-telescope.html

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[Otherbrother]

@beschizza

Compare Hubble’s images from 1998

And for those who want to see a closer view…

https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/Huygens%2BProbe

[Grey_Devil]

That’s a pretty amazing image. Fuck yeah, science

[DreamboatSkanky]

Initially read, “Saturn’s moon Titan imagined by the James Webb Space Telescope”, and boy did I have a start.

[Grey_Devil]

I’m sure AI somewhere is hallucinating what titan looks like

[SpunkyTWS]

Does it need to imagine? We have a pretty good image.

[Melizmatic]

[KathyPartdeux]

And it’s where the Sirens live.

[SamSam]

I know it doesn’t really work like this, but it always surprises me that JWT can take a picture of a minuscule patch of space and see a hundred distant galaxies, and yet a photograph of a neighbor in our own solar system still isn’t perfectly crisp clear.

Am I right in thinking that the reason for this is that, despite how close Titan is, it still occupies a smaller angular patch of sky than those photos of hundreds of galaxies?

[SpunkyTWS]

“I understood that reference.”

[ficuswhisperer]

Somehow I expected better quality images.