How can you not be impressed with this!
I cant tell if this serious. All I see is someone turning up the gamma on same image and then dropping a couple lens flares into it
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How can you not be impressed with this!
Lets be honest. The NASA fuckheads were saying how it's so beautiful they were crying at the images. I want to see an alien great wall of china, or GTFO
I am looking at it more along the lines of that Hubble took weeks to get that photo. Imagine what we will see when the JWST does a deep field for weeks as opposed to DAYS.I think it's just a buzzkill that we are all pumped for these "amazing" new images they've been teasing, and its just literally like someone put a filter on the 30 year old photo, lol. And I think it's probably disappointing because it just settles that our tech will only get so good.
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I agree that they should've released two pics at the start, one that was a "deep field" pic and one that was a "near field" pic like looking at Alpha Centauri or Andromeda. I'm just a layman but my understanding is that JWST is designed to see very far away objects instead of "nearby" objects like Alpha Centauri, so it might produce images that are inferior to what we see today. But a pic that beats Best image of Alpha Centauri A and B would be cool.Yeah I want to see different shit. I want to see accrretion disks, quasars or just cool nebula. All of the deep field photography looks the same. Bunch of galaxies, each a couple pixels across, not nearly enough for any meaningful detail, across a black background
Why on the moon?The next big telescope project would ideally be a radio telescope on the far side of the moon
I think it's just a buzzkill that we are all pumped for these "amazing" new images they've been teasing, and its just literally like someone put a filter on the 30 year old photo, lol. And I think it's probably disappointing because it just settles that our tech will only get so good.
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Why on the moon?
I don't know what is gained from radio telescopes, but my guess is that the next big space telescope will relate to nearby asteroids. Identifying high-value asteroids or asteroids that risk space missions, specifically.The far side of the moon would allow the
Moon itself to act as a shield to block radio transmissions from Earth, which can interfere with radio telescope observations
Yeah but too much lense flare.They are amazing. We went from a 100 hour/10 day exposure to a 12 hour one that has quadruple the visual information. You do realize that space is space and a view like this is going to look 'the same' no matter what we use because these are fucking galaxies, right? That they don't move around or change shape because they are celestial bodies of such vastness that you're not living on a time scale to see any appreciable difference in the object's evolution. You're looking billions of years into the past at galaxies that no longer exist, turned into gravity-bent arcs of light. You're seeing things of such vastness and denseness that they are warping time around it. Who would've thought that vast improved visualization technology means more brightness, more contrast, more pixels, more visual information- not some crazy 'additional' information you randomly decided to come to expect, despite the fact that the majority of these images and the rainbow compilations of Hubble + Chandra and the like are painstakingly constructed collages of information garnered from spectrums your eyeballs have no capacity to render. Shit like this is the most profound visual evidence of our place in the universe, a view unthinkable to 10,000 years and billions of humans who lived and died believing they lived on the back of a turtle or floating in a giant sea, and you're mad they didn't invent a spectrum outside visual/infrared/UV to make iT lOoK coOleR.
You're looking at an image that neatly quantifies your utter cosmic insignificance, an image that hundreds of geniuses dedicated their entire lives to being able to create, using technology and mathematics you could not begin to comprehend, a shred of space that you perceive as a darkness 'a few pixels' across turned into a portrait of light and time showing you a complete visual perspective on the law of existence itself, and you're feeling buzzkillt because the first image drop is something you recognize. Go eat a hamburger and jerk off.
Yeah but too much lense flare.
pretentious.They are amazing. We went from a 100 hour/10 day exposure to a 12 hour one that has quadruple the visual information. You do realize that space is space and a view like this is going to look 'the same' no matter what we use because these are fucking galaxies, right? That they don't move around or change shape because they are celestial bodies of such vastness that you're not living on a time scale to see any appreciable difference in the object's evolution. You're looking billions of years into the past at galaxies that no longer exist, turned into gravity-bent arcs of light. You're seeing things of such vastness and denseness that they are warping time around it. Who would've thought that vast improved visualization technology means more brightness, more contrast, more pixels, more visual information- not some crazy 'additional' information you randomly decided to come to expect, despite the fact that the majority of these images and the rainbow compilations of Hubble + Chandra and the like are painstakingly constructed collages of information garnered from spectrums your eyeballs have no capacity to render. Shit like this is the most profound visual evidence of our place in the universe, a view unthinkable to 10,000 years and billions of humans who lived and died believing they lived on the back of a turtle or floating in a giant sea, and you're mad they didn't invent a spectrum outside visual/infrared/UV to make iT lOoK coOleR.
You're looking at an image that neatly quantifies your utter cosmic insignificance, an image that hundreds of geniuses dedicated their entire lives to being able to create, using technology and mathematics you could not begin to comprehend, a shred of space that you perceive as a darkness 'a few pixels' across turned into a portrait of light and time showing you a complete visual perspective on the law of existence itself, and you're feeling buzzkillt because the first image drop is something you recognize. Go eat a hamburger and jerk off.
Well, hurry up and build something better then.