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DrEvil » Tue Jul 12, 2022 2:15 pm wrote:First image from the Webb Space Telescope is in:
Full size: https://stsci-opo.org/STScI-01G7JJADTH9 ... FKSS0B.png
Webb homepage: https://webbtelescope.org/
All those dots are galaxies, each one with billions and billions of stars and planets, and that's just a portion of the sky comparable in size to a grain of sand held at arms length.
It's not often I get a sense of vertigo by just looking at a picture, but wow! Insert Douglas Adams quote here.
DrEvil » Wed Jul 13, 2022 12:24 am wrote:Yeah, figuring out stuff that doesn't interact with our little slice of the universe other than through gravity is tricky, but the Webb telescope can help shine some metaphorical light on it:
https://www.space.com/james-webb-space- ... er-science
There's probably a bunch of alien scientists trying to figure out what those last four percent of the universe are made out of, and alien hippies insisting that they've met extra-dimensional flesh puppets while tripping.
DrEvil » Tue Jul 19, 2022 7:03 am wrote:Ah, now I get it. That makes sense. But what's causing the standing waves? Who or what is beating the drum?
Largest space telescope sustains ‘uncorrectable’ damage - A tiny space rock struck the James Webb Space Telescope harder than previously thought
19 Jul, 2022
A tiny meteoroid struck the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) between May 22 and May 24. According to a performance report issued by NASA, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency last week, the collision “caused uncorrectable change in the overall figure” of the observatory’s C3 mirror segment.
“The effect was small at the full telescope level because only a small portion of the telescope area was affected.”
Although the telescope was designed to withstand such collisions, the report said the strike in May has “exceeded prelaunch expectations of damage for a single micrometeoroid.”
https://www.rt.com/news/559227-space-telescope-damaged-meteor/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS
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