Webb telescope just snapped direct image of worlds many light-years away (mashable.com)
from threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works to astronomy@mander.xyz on 19 Mar 08:54
https://sh.itjust.works/post/34695198

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Minarble@aussie.zone on 19 Mar 09:34 next collapse

You are looking at actual images of planets from another solar system… I just think that’s neat!

Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world on 19 Mar 10:01 next collapse

That’s a trip. I keep having that moment with the JWST where I think okay, now I get the hype and then it surprises me again.

espentan@lemmy.world on 19 Mar 16:01 next collapse

I, too, think that is neat!

Who knows, maybe on one of them there are people, and maybe they put the dumbest one of them in charge, and now everyone is having a terrible time.

XeroxCool@lemmy.world on 19 Mar 19:36 collapse

I saw the image embedded in one of the comments here before hut somehow didn’t realize the gravity of it until this thread

Shawdow194@fedia.io on 19 Mar 11:38 next collapse

Incredible! These are like the old Hubble shots of galaxies by how blurry they are - but these are freaking planets!!!!

Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net on 19 Mar 13:07 next collapse

The next thing after Webb is gonna be ridiculous.

threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works on 19 Mar 16:29 collapse

Those will like be the Nancy Grace Roman and LUVOIR space telescopes.

Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net on 19 Mar 16:35 next collapse

Yeah, that 2039 date projection for LUVOIR is awful. Especially considering that it will almost certainly be pushed back a few years.

I’d love to see something that big happen though.

threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works on 19 Mar 16:42 collapse

Well, if JWST was worth the wait, I’m sure LUVOIR would be as well.

But yeah, I’m impatient too :)

conditional_soup@lemm.ee on 20 Mar 20:55 collapse

I’m so fucking pumped about the Roman telescope

Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 19 Mar 16:06 collapse

I’ve taken photos of Jupiter that are blurrier than this 😫

LostXOR@fedia.io on 19 Mar 12:26 next collapse

That's really awesome! I'm impressed that JWST's coronagraph was able to block out the star's light so completely.

MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca on 19 Mar 13:36 collapse

It’s incredible!!