James Webb Space Telescope begins historic mission

[sd455dan]

No Service missions are going to take place to repair or upgrade the JWST.

It's out of reach.

For the near future.

Space X given another 3 years will "hopefully" have Starship and a new human rated capsule ready.
It doesn't hurt that NASA is beginning to finally shift some of Artemis moon missions over as well.

Once SpaceX gets going on "production" Starships, They won't just build a few.

But here is Hoping Webb has a perfect operational future, and does not need any repairs.

 

[cqaigy2]

NASA’s Webb Reaches Alignment Milestone Pretty interesting video.

 

[sd455dan]

Scientific American newest on Webb

This deep field, taken by Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), is a composite made from images at different wavelengths, totaling 12.5 hours – achieving depths at infrared wavelengths beyond the Hubble Space Telescope’s deepest fields, which took weeks.

The image shows the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 as it appeared 4.6 billion years ago. The combined mass of this galaxy cluster acts as a gravitational lens, magnifying much more distant galaxies behind it. Webb’s NIRCam has brought those distant galaxies into sharp focus




NASA to release More Images at 10:30 AM eastern time 7/12

Can't wait this is getting exciting!

 

[oldballs]

Thanks sd455dan for posting that YouTube from the Scientific American.

Cheers,
Mike

 

[dstig1]

I'm very curious to see what they have to show for first images tomorrow!

 

[riptides]

Here are the uncompressed files. Large!

~30MB each

https://stsci-opo.org/STScI-01G7JJ29QMHNZKDK9JC7M4G47T.tif

https://stsci-opo.org/STScI-01G7JJADTH90FR98AKKJFKSS0B.png

 

[Tinhack]

Certainly, a waste of space if no other life is out there.

 

[ruffdog]

On Nova...Age of the Stars. All the stars will at some time burn out and go dark. In the far future, space will become dark. Interesting show:

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/nova-universe-revealed-age-of-stars/

 

[Snobdds]

Certainly, a waste of space if no other life is out there.

We only know life to live and thrive a specific distance from a star, due to temperatures needed to support life. Not saying it's impossible, but having a planet evolve like ours did with other planets affecting gravitational pull to have a specific orbit is not likely to be replicated. Other planets and their orbit contribute to our orbit. Our moon and it's distance from the sun and the relationship to our planet are very important to having seasons for life.

When I was in College, a former NASA scientist taught Astrophysics and astronomy. He was so good at teaching and reasoning, he uncovered a love of space I never knew I had. Space is so fascinating and full of mystery. When I retire, I'm going to go finish my astrophysics degree. I have about 6 classes left. I have a pretty strong telescope at my cabin where it is really dark at night. I can look into the past for hours some nights.

I'm pretty excited about this new James Webb telescope.

 

[cqaigy2]

Certainly, a waste of space if no other life is out there.

Or is it?