Webb Telescope

[MartyG]

I've been watching closely the past few days since the launch as the deployment of the complex heat shield and mirror segments were unfolded and locked in. So far so good! This is one of the most amazing human endeavors in history, and will change our understanding of the universe - or at least reinforce how little we know about it. I'm thankful this was funded, designed, manufactured and sent into space. Can't wait to see what it sees out there.

You can monitor progress here: Where is Webb?

Marty

 

[Cougar]

This is one of the most amazing human endeavors in history, and will change our understanding of the universe...

Thanks, Marty, I totally agree. Early structure formation has long been one of the unsolved problems in astrophysics, and Webb is going to open that door for us. Fingers crossed!

 

[MacGuild]

At $10-Billion, I'll wait for a used one on Reverb.
Thanks for posting this info, Marty. Webb is the most exciting exploration development since, well, Hubble; except this upgrade will hopefully be as dramatic as going from dial-up to 5G. The quarter-century old Hubble Deep Field image alone is truly staggering, and Webb is capable of probing far deeper and wider than Hubble, and has 25-years' worth of advancement in capture, resolution and phoning home.
I wish more people took an interest in the ongoing great accomplishments of humanity. When Voyager effectively left the Solar System a decade ago, hardly anyone seemed to notice, yet we had managed to build something that left that damn Solar System.
Fingers crossed indeed. The potential here is immeasurable.

 

[LeFinPepere]

I agree this is very exciting!!!Good news for 2022 and years to come......Galileo! Galileo! I can see for miles and miles and miles aaaaaaand miles!!!

 

[HeyMikey]

Thanks Marty! Great link. I can’t wait until the finish deployment (5-6 mos?) and start processing images. Very exciting.

 

[dreadnut]

Thanks for the link, Marty, I will bookmark this.

Yeah I was Joe Astronomer when I was a kid. Spent my Saturdays at the local Astronomical Association. Actually helped build an observatory that is still flourishing. https://www.graaa.org/veen-observatory

I still have a couple of telescopes.

 

[Guildedagain]

Sadly, we'll only be able to look 100 million years past the big bang, it does leave a gap, doesn't it?




You know this is all happening in a studio outside LA right?


Lol

 

[Nuuska]

Imagine what kind guitar could be built if the knoledge were at same level - and funding plus other factors . . .

I still would be just as inferior player, though

15 years ago when they sent that one space object to meet an asteroid and land on it - I demonstrated the task by scaling it to fathomable size. I ended w something like : "We are sending from Tampere an object that is the size of grain of sand to orbit first around southern finland at radius of 50 miles increasing to 300 miles in ten years. the grain would be travelling at speed of 100mph and meet the asteroid that is the size of a peanut near Oulu - 500km / 300 miles from Tampere. In Oulu - both travelling @ 100mph the sand grain would land on the peanut.

I do not have the original data - and I'm too lazy to recaöculate - but this might put things in more comprehendable perspect when talking about space.

Wiki info here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philae_(spacecraft)

 

[Prince of Darkness]

Sadly, we'll only be able to look 100 million years past the big bang, it does leave a gap, doesn't it?




You know this is all happening in a studio outside LA right?


Lol

"Made in a Hollywood basement"?

 

[fronobulax]

"Made in a Hollywood basement"?

There is an IMO conspiracy theory that the US never landed on the moon and that all the "documentation" for that event was created and filmed on a Hollywood soundstage.

 

[GAD]

There is an IMO conspiracy theory that the US never landed on the moon and that all the "documentation" for that event was created and filmed on a Hollywood soundstage.

 

[Uke]

Thanks so much for the link -- I'm no astronomer or astrophysicist, but I'm very intrigued by this telescope. I guess it stems from my high school years living across the river from the cape during the Apollo program. Everybody's dad seemed to be some kind of engineer, and all that geeky excitement was quite contagious.

 

[wileypickett]

Ten billion and the TRC is upside down.

 

[Prince of Darkness]

 

[Cougar]

Sadly, we'll only be able to look 100 million years past the big bang, it does leave a gap, doesn't it?

Well, there's not much in that gap besides a dense soup of hydrogen and helium atoms. 100 million years is about the time the first stars formed. Their light will have been traveling to us for most of the entire history of the Universe.

Of course, we do detect the CMB. Its photons have been traveling unimpeded since about 300,000 years after the big bang. All we detect there is the heat of that background radiation, and the small temperature variations. Remarkably, scientists can discover a lot from those small variations.

 

[Guildedagain]

Thx Coug

It's a lot to think about, isn't it?

You're like, wow, there's something bigger and more mysterious out there than me and my guitar collection ;]

 

[Uke]

O.K. I'm not too proud to admit that I don't get this. Is this a worm hole? And if so, I still don't get it !

 

[GardMan]

O.K. I'm not too proud to admit that I don't get this. Is this a worm hole? And if so, I still don't get it !

This...

 

[fronobulax]

It's the Doomsday Machine from a Star Trek episode. I didn't remember it either. I used a TinEye search, found other places it was posted and then learned from the comments. Much easier to wait for someone on LTG to do that.

 

[Uke]

This...

It's the Doomsday Machine from a Star Trek episode. I didn't remember it either. I used a TinEye search, found other places it was posted and then learned from the comments. Much easier to wait for someone on LTG to do that.

Thanks, guys! Now, not only do I own a Guild guitar, but I'm just a wee bit smarter And yes, Frono, I agree, this was a much easier method to get the information!