Originally published at: Watch NASA unveiling the stunning first images from the Webb Space Telescope | Boing Boing
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Tried watching it and it’s a lot of filler. Figured i’d save myself the pain and i’ll just wait for the internet to just provide me the pics themselves.
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Make sure you go to NASAs page and open the images in their full size. https://www.nasa.gov/webbfirstimages
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The room full of astronomers at the UA was downloading and drooling over these photos as they were released during the webcast. I suspect there’s gonna be a lot more activity in astronomy Slack channels in the coming weeks.
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Every time I have seen that first image with the flare on that one star my bad GenX brain goes here:
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Here’s the thing that really blows my mind. These were mostly exposures of hours, while the comparable Hubble pics are exposures of weeks, with so much less resolution. I think this is going to an incredibly exciting era in astronomy, if we can keep self-destruction at bay, anyway.
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If you are a bit older, you might see this…
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I’m old enough but I don’t think they ever imported that show to the states. I do remember Benny Hill referencing it though.
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This is pretty cool.
There are sliders on images to compare Hubble and Webb photos:
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