First Images from the James Webb Space Telescope.

[L.A.T.1961]

This first image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date. Known as Webb’s First Deep Field, this image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 is overflowing with detail. Thousands of galaxies – including the faintest objects ever observed in the infrared – have appeared in Webb’s view for the first time. This slice of the vast universe covers a patch of sky approximately the size of a grain of sand held at arm’s length

https://www.nasa.gov/webbfirstimages

[L.A.T.1961]

NASA and its partners will release the full series of Webb’s first full-color images and data, known as spectra, Tuesday, July 12, during a live NASA TV broadcast.

 

https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2022/nasa-s-webb-delivers-deepest-infrared-image-of-universe-yet

[Trelane]

Truly amazing. Everyone involved in this project should be very proud of this accomplishment. 

Deep, wide and mysterious the universe remains. She smiles at us, but still has much to reveal.

[L.A.T.1961]

A great achievement, so many ways it could have gone wrong but now hopefully a telescope that will keep delivering for twenty years.

[jethrofloyd]

Pros: Really amazing photos.

Cons: The universe is too vast, there's no way we'll ever meet aliens,

[+Razman]

Yea , it is extraordinary pic, fascinating how large the universe is. If you think of a person's body being made up of cells and molecules and stuff and they say (like anything that appears solid ) , it is actually mostly space in between , then this is like looking at a microscopic view of a universal body. 

[Likely Guy]

Really cool! They actually built a time machine.

[L.A.T.1961]

More new images - 

Stephan’s Quintet, a visual grouping of five galaxies.

https://www.nasa.gov/webbfirstimages

Also on that link -  Southern Ring Nebula, and a light spectrum of WASP-96 b used to detect its atmospheric makeup.  WASP-96 b is one of more than 5,000 confirmed exoplanets in the Milky Way. 

https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2022/nasa-s-webb-reveals-steamy-atmosphere-of-distant-planet-in-detail

[Trelane]

2 hours ago, L.A.T.1961 said:

More new images - 

Stephan’s Quintet, a visual grouping of five galaxies.

https://www.nasa.gov/webbfirstimages

Also on that link -  Southern Ring Nebula, and a light spectrum of WASP-96 b used to detect its atmospheric makeup.  WASP-96 b is one of more than 5,000 confirmed exoplanets in the Milky Way. 

https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2022/nasa-s-webb-reveals-steamy-atmosphere-of-distant-planet-in-detail

These are all amazing photos. To think, they're just getting started!

I wonder what other secrets and mysteries the Webb team can reveal or solve.

[+and-then]

18 hours ago, jethrofloyd said:

Cons: The universe is too vast, there's no way we'll ever meet aliens,

Hawking seemed to believe that to be a good thing.

[+and-then]

This was the most powerful fact from the original image:

"Webb’s image covers a patch of sky approximately the size of a grain of sand held at arm’s length by someone on the ground"

 

[NCC1701]

You can clearly see the dent that that meteorite struck in the mirror in the concentric rings around the middle of the image.

[Gumball]

This is the stuff of dreams.  To even try and imagine how big our galaxy is or how many stars and planets lie within is amazing but to then see five all stuck together is mind blowing.

[pallidin]

Bravo! Great job on such a difficult endeavor!

Looking forward to more.

[Trelane]

Here's a side by side with a Hubble image.

 

[+Razman]

The pics look almost 3D when you look close at them, though it seems like there is a lot of contrast in some of them , especially that of the Carina Nebula . I mean the similarities of cells and wombs and molecules is uncanny , like maybe our microscopic selves and some basic life stuff are based loosely on the universe design. Like just looking at a super giant version of our microscopic  bodies. This look familiar.   Like cells  in a microscope.

Edited July 13, 2022 by razman

[Earl.Of.Trumps]

On 7/11/2022 at 7:44 PM, jethrofloyd said:

Pros: Really amazing photos.

Cons: The universe is too vast, there's no way we'll ever meet aliens,

You have a valid point (cons), Jethro. What we are looking at there are images that were made some 14 billion years ago. We'll never have any idea as to what is going on NOW.
The closest star to Earth (besides the sun), Proxima Centauri, is 4.2465 light-years away. And yet, it would take 60,000 years to get there. (estimates vary depending on technology used). 

In other words... forgedaboudit  we ain't sending peoples there 

 

 

 

Edited July 13, 2022 by Earl.Of.Trumps
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[Megaro]

The color images are graphic artists' interpretation of computer rendered data.  

[+Razman]

2 hours ago, Megaro said:

The color images are graphic artists' interpretation of computer rendered data.  

Where does it say that?

[Megaro]

1 hour ago, razman said:

Where does it say that?

It doesn't. 

 

An excerpt from https://phys.org/news/2022-07-full-color-images-james-webb-telescope.html

Quote

Crafting the images is also something of a subjective process. Artists at the institute must essentially assign color to black and white images as scientifically as possible, creating visual representations of wavelengths of light that humans cannot see.

 

  

[L.A.T.1961]

On 7/12/2022 at 10:51 PM, NCC1701 said:

You can clearly see the dent that that meteorite struck in the mirror in the concentric rings around the middle of the image.

That's caused by gravitational lensing. The damage caused to the mirror is imperceptible in images.

 

[L.A.T.1961]

17 hours ago, Megaro said:

It doesn't. 

 

An excerpt from https://phys.org/news/2022-07-full-color-images-james-webb-telescope.html

 

  

The idea of true colour is not straight forward with any images, even a standard mobile phone camera uses filters over a mono imaging cmos/ccd and then the, usually, three filter colours used combined to create a colour image. 

How the colours are combined will provide the colour balance seen in the image, many domestic cameras will have a slightly different balance depending on the processing algorithm used. 

With the Webb telescope the cameras have been set up to operate at the designed wavelength of the scope for best scientific results, its a research tool first that can have its output modified on the ground to give a colour image the public can engage with.

[NCC1701]

Probably they just shifted the wavelength to visible range, so short wavelength is still blue and red for the longer wavelenght. Just a guess.

[+and-then]

On 7/12/2022 at 10:11 PM, razman said:

like maybe our microscopic selves and some basic life stuff are based loosely on the universe design

Kind of like this:

 

 

[taniwha]

I wonder if the future is that far away?