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threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works to Astronomy@mander.xyzEnglish · 2 months ago

Webb telescope just snapped direct image of worlds many light-years away

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Webb telescope just snapped direct image of worlds many light-years away

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

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      The next thing after Webb is gonna be ridiculous.

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

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          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.

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

            But yeah, I’m impatient too :)

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          I’m so fucking pumped about the Roman telescope

    • Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      I’ve taken photos of Jupiter that are blurrier than this 😫

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

    • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@lemmy.world
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      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.

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

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      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.

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

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    It’s incredible!!

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