Latest Space Missions (& Other Science Stuff)

[unique]

This seems to be the best place to get uncompressed images, as and when they are released : Image Resources.

[sheralmyst]

You beat me to it…they jipped us. We did not see the 2nd image. Are they going to show it? Get Canada online asap!

[unique]

It’s there now. Hopefully higher resolutions later as they seem a bit small.

[sheralmyst]

[unique]

In full res (OMG the detail). About 20-190Mb size.

Deep field : https://stsci-opo.org/STScI-01G7DDBW5NNXTJV8PGHB0465QP.png

Southern Ring Nebula (NIRCam Image) : https://stsci-opo.org/STScI-01G79R51118N21AAZ9MZ8XWWQ6.png

Stephan’s Quintet (NIRCam and MIRI Composite Image) (184MB) https://stsci-opo.org/STScI-01G7DB1FHPMJCCY59CQGZC1YJQ.png

“Cosmic Cliffs” in the Carina Nebula (NIRCam Image) : https://stsci-opo.org/STScI-01G7ETPF7DVBJAC42JR5N6EQRH.png

[sheralmyst]

I KNOW!!! Fabulous!
And did I hear them correctly? This will be a weekly thing…as images will be coming down every week…

[unique]

Here’s a list (of lists) of what the JWST will be looking at. It seems they are currently (or will shortly be) looking at Neptune. Jupiter on the 14th.

Observing-schedules : OBSERVING SCHEDULES

[sheralmyst]

I have to start a calendar and have opened a new folder on my desktop. Will have to load up a slideshow for my wallpaper because I cannot choose just one

[stryker99]

Well, finally all the fresh excitement is over, and all this I can gawk at to my leisure. Back to scifandrathro and trouble trouble.

[sheralmyst]

Ok so this is why I was confused. The exoplanet is not actually a pic but a spectrograph of one…I think I got that right. This was the 2nd pic that was to come from Canada.

[sheralmyst]

Images of solar systems coming on Thursday according to the post briefings and Jupiter

[stryker99]

I thought I’d share a little bit more as I digest a big stew lunch, and maybe konk out for a bit. This is the higher res “galactic pile up” I posted a small version of above.

This is quite a strange thing. Is it an image of four or five galaxies whose attraction got too strong and dragged them together? Did one or two galaxies fly into another pair? Is that a Virgo-like ejection from one of their cores, or material being slung out post-collision? I hope some astrophysicists focus on this space oddity at some point and figure out just what’s going on with this bunch. I’m way curious.

And… request posted to the NASA JW Deep Space Twaddle page. Banzai!

[unique]

I see a starship… NMS style. Maybe it was just flying by when JWST took the pic? No, of course not. Being silly. It would be all blurry. It’s obviously a rusted abandoned freighter.

[sheralmyst]

Whatever it is, I think the Sentinel patrols just blew it up because they detected a forged passport onboard.
I like this one from the Carina Nebula

[stryker99]

I was considering sketching in a vague NCC-1701 Enterprise in one of the pics with a bit of void in it, but I had wasted enough time on that stuff today and wanted to get back to writing.

One thing about my computer chair astronomy studies is that I’m being Captain Obvious with my post. Undoubtedly, a number of image specialists are pouring over every pixel in every image and playing with gamma and all kinds of adjusting tools in every relevant wavelength to bring out even more stuff than we’re gawking at. My galactic blobbies are probably earmarked for further study since the Hubble images indicated something curious there. But I like the thought that even a Citizen Scientist like me can point out something cool to the intranets.

[sheralmyst]

Speaking of which, there was a post reveal Q&A and the last question was would there be a role for Citizen Scientists and the answer was yes. There is so much data in each pic and so many pics to come. After the scientists have a chance to pour over them, there will be a program put in place to search for specific things, naming, etc…

[jedidia]

They don’t necessarily have to be close to each other. There may be millions of lightyears between them in the z-axis.

[sheralmyst]

For comparison, here is Carina Nebula from Hubble

[stryker99]

If so, there is a lot of interstellar matter out in space around the galaxies. It doesn’t resemble ambient light. But hopefully some budding young astronomer will peek and poke at it someday soon, and we’ll know a thing or two.

[sheralmyst]