First colour image from JWST Today at 10pm

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The Whitehouse will host President Bidens revealing of the first colour image from the James Webb Space Telescope today at 5pmET (10pm UK time tonight 11/7/22)
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Followed on Tuesday by the rest of the images. I can't wait for this persoanlly. I have been following this project for many years and got my lads to watch the launch on Christmas day. I will imagine it will be a deep field image similar to what Hubble did.

So excited. Anyone else hyped up over the JWST?
 
Interesting looking back at Hubble's first image taken for engineering purposes back in 1990 vs what JWST has taken for the same purpose now: https://www.nasa.gov/content/hubbles-first-light

It is literal night and day difference, the deep feld JWST engineering test image can already see galaxies behind all that cloud of dust from the very start of the early universe, so the full captures will no doubt be even more amazing.
 
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I think I shall pass on watching the Biden link. I can only handle so much cringe in one week of internet activity and it's only Monday. I think I will mute him talking at the intro and wait till NasaWebb spokesperson comes on to describe what we are seeing.
 
This is Hubble's Ulra Deep Field image, it contains galaxies going as far back as an estimated 800 million years after the big bang, those are the smaller red ones in view:

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It is said that JWST should be able to capture images of galaxies even further, as far as 400 million years after the big bang, maybe even earlier as the optical performance is actually "better than expected" according to JWST engineers.
 
mrk said:
This is Hubble's Ulra Deep Field image, it contains galaxies going as far back as an estimated 800 million years after the big bang, those are the smaller red ones in view:



It is said that JWST should be able to capture images of galaxies even further, as far as 400 million years after the big bang, maybe even earlier as the optical performance is actually "better than expected" according to JWST engineers.
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I think, as so do many other people, that the JWST people have seriously underestimated what they have done and what the telescope can do. I mean, just look at all the points of failure on the launch and deployment.

to add, each one of those dots is a galaxy containing billions if not trillions of stars. There are thousands of galaxies in that image and it is a extremely small section of the sky. Yet there are people who think God made everything and we are alone in this rather large universe. Not wanting to get into religion debates but how can one 'being' create something so vast and at the same time scary as ****, plus the fact it look amazing.
 
Keep in mind too that the teaser picture shown wasn't taken with the primary camera either but the calibration/engineering camera. And if that lens can see all that, imagine what the primary images look like.
 
Yea this is cool stuff.

Nice to focus on this stuff, why isn't this all over the main media news?


Wish the world would focus more on achievements like this, rather than wallowing in misery people over everything negative.
 
I'm really hoping this is proper mind-blowing stuff - it has been so hyped up but also we are kind of due some real advances.
 
It has been hyped by online media, not by NASA, NASA have merely announced the PSA and shown a few teasers and told how engineers were brought to tears :D

The usual outlets will cover the news tomorrow no doubt, they currently have little to go on, and what there is available doesn't really appeal to the masses who will simply go "great some red dots" and flick over to Love Island and stuff :p
 
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