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[Bitmap Frogs]

That was it?

 

[Insane Metal]

That's it? LOLOLOL

 

[eddie4]

I'm sure they'll post high res shortly.

They're going to upload the high res full-color tomorrow on NASA's site.

 

[strange headache]

Wait, that's it?

 

[Deleted member 1159]

The lensing is pretty cool to see.

 

[FunkMiller]

More disappointing than a State Of Play.

 

[Insane Metal]

 

[haxan7]

someone said "let's wait for the press to leave then we'll continue the briefing"

 

[ManaByte]

So they just re-took the deep field image...?

 

[strange headache]

 

[mortal]

This livestream was a waste of time. They should've just shared the high-resolution image and called it a day.

 

[DeepEnigma]

So they just re-took the deep field image...?

 

[haxan7]

The circular warping of the light has an eerie quality to it. I guess it's a precursor of what's to come from the telescope (in a good way).

 

[The Cockatrice]

Looks like something someone made up. The galaxy is fake. Fake news. Also no sexy blue aliens = dont care.

 

[RiccochetJ]

Absolutely wild that we're looking at a picture of galaxies we haven't seen before. Like aren't we talking about trillions upon trillions of stars that we're seeing for the first time in that picture?

 

[Maiden Voyage]

God damnit, thinking about space fucks me up. Shit's beyond massive. Unfathomable.

 

[Hawking Radiation]

Sweet Baby Jesus

 

[strange headache]

God damnit, thinking about space fucks me up. Shit's beyond massive. Unfathomable.

So many galaxies in a sand grain sized piece of the sky.

 

[eddie4]

God damnit, thinking about space fucks me up. Shit's beyond massive. Unfathomable.

 

[mansoor1980]

need to explore those

 

[Kraz]

Watching the universe form in the details of gravity lensing.

Infinite space & infinite stars showing fine details in curves of light.

 

[Sakura]

What are the extremely bright parts?

 

[sol_bad]

Can they zoom in on actual planets with these telescopes?

 

[Hawking Radiation]

I can't wait to see the Carina Nebula . Webb is supposed to be able to peer through the dust cloud.

 

[Buggy Loop]

That lensing is something else, must be a massive gravity well in that direction.

Did fucking Biden really say it was delayed because he was planning his trip to middle east? Holy shit

 

[lem0n]

Some people are like "ThAtS iT?" My brother in christ LOOK AT THE IMAGE. IT'S WONDERUS AND ENDLESSELY BEAUTIFUL. Space is so fucking cool, man. I often wish I was born a few hundred years later so I could see it up close.

 

[Husky]

Here's where you can view all the full-res pics as they're posted tomorrow https://webbtelescope.org/news/first-images
Here's the full res PNG of today's photo, 4537x4630, 28.51MB. It's maddeningly beautiful.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has produced 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 is approximately the size of a grain of sand held at arm’s length by someone on the ground.

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 – they have tiny, faint structures that have never been seen before, including star clusters and diffuse features. Researchers will soon begin to learn more about the galaxies’ masses, ages, histories, and compositions, as Webb seeks the earliest galaxies in the universe.

 

[EviLore]

Can they zoom in on actual planets with these telescopes?

Exoplanets are small, very far away, and not very bright. We have to spot them through indirect means.

 

[mansoor1980]

it is looking back in time right?

 

[sol_bad]

Exoplanets are small, very far away, and not very bright. We have to spot them through indirect means.

But they can't zoom in on planets that are far closer?

 

[Kraz]

it is looking back in time right?

 

[BadBurger]

I thought there was a problem with the stream I was watching. Turns out it ended like the final episode of The Sopranos.

 

[mansoor1980]

the time aspect is just mind numbing

 

[p_xavier]

Yet I'm still single.

 

[Northeastmonk]

Aren’t we composed of the same particles those stars are?

 

[Hawking Radiation]

Here's where you can view all the full-res pics as they're posted tomorrow https://webbtelescope.org/news/first-images
Here's the full res PNG of today's photo, 4537x4630, 28.51MB. It's maddeningly beautiful.

Thanks mate

 

[Buggy Loop]

Can they zoom in on actual planets with these telescopes?

As in see skyscrapers of an alien world? No

It'll detect the materials that make that planet via emited wavelengths when it passes over a sun and it can be a solid lead to find life forms that would emit non natural gas. But not like details of the planet, they don't or barely emit light.

 

[Dontkidyourselfjimmy]

Hundreds/thousands of galaxies in a view of space roughly the size of a grain of rice held at arm's length and people complain

Can't wait for all the images tomorrow and the years beyond.

 

[greyshark]

Incredible

 

[Hawking Radiation]

Incredible

Ahem, Holy Shit
That's insane

 

[Dontkidyourselfjimmy]

Incredible

I'll wait for the digital foundry comparison.

 

[Bonsaibäumchen]

Here's where you can view all the full-res pics as they're posted tomorrow https://webbtelescope.org/news/first-images
Here's the full res PNG of today's photo, 4537x4630, 28.51MB. It's maddeningly beautiful.

Been looking at that for 20 minutes.

Text says it all though. JWST did this in 12,5 hours where Hubble needed Weeks and still couldn't observe certain wavelengths. (One could argue that JWST is about 30times better at least then Hubble)

JWST work is just beginning, I'll be glad to see more of its work in the future.

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

I was right. Stars behind stars. Galaxies behind galaxies. It's a huge step up for science and discoveries for detail but come on if the marketing department didn't fuck up by not going for one close up object for that wow factor on the first image. I wonder when they'll release a pic of a real focal point object?

 

[SirKicksalot]

Damn, why didn't I buy Mass Effect Remastered during the sale?

But they can't zoom in on planets that are far closer?

It can be pointed at basically anything in the sky. Just needs some brightness protection for nearby objects like Mars. It will be used to study planets in our system.

Regarding exoplanets:

John Grunsfeld: James Webb is sold as studying galaxies, but I think its greatest discovery may be a habitable Earth-like exoplanet. That's what's going to blow everybody away.

Mullen: So you'd be able to directly image a terrestrial planet, which has never been done before?

Grunsfeld: Exactly. But it wouldn't be like a Rand McNally map, it would be a spot. But because you'd see a spot, we can then do a spectrum of that spot.

Mountain: You'd actually get a color. If it's like Earth, it'll look blue.

Grunsfeld: And, if you had enough time, and there were seasons, with ice covering and then going away, you could study it and be able to tell the difference between winter and summer on the planet, or vegetation, in principle. Just from unresolved single pixels, because of the color changes.

Mountain: Or you could tell it is rotating.

Mullen: Is there a limit to the kinds of stars JWST can target for planet searches?

Mountain: You can only look at stars out to a certain distance, to about 10 or 20 parsecs. But that's ok, because the planets [farther out] are too faint anyway. Any farther away and we can't differentiate them, both the planet and the star will be hidden by the star shade.

It can also detect signatures of industry and industrial farming.

There are billions of targets but only a decade's worth of fuel.

 

[Kraz]

 

[Hawking Radiation]

Been looking at that for 20 minutes.

Text says it all though. JWST did this in 12,5 hours where Hubble needed Weeks and still couldn't observe certain wavelengths. (One could argue that JWST is about 30times better at least then Hubble)

JWST work is just beginning, I'll be glad to see more of its work in the future.

But what if they left Webb's shutters open for a few weeks like they did with Hubble.

I bet we will see some shit with a Webb Ultra Deep Field.

 

[Bonsaibäumchen]

But what if they left Webb's shutters open for a few weeks like they did with Hubble.

I bet we will see some shit with a Webb Ultra Deep Field.

And we probably will. Though I wouldn't expect it to soon. As for now scientists/teams from all over the world are fighting to get time for even small projects/shots.

 

[Phunkydiabetic]

Imagine being disappointed by this. You people will fuckin whine about anything huh

 

[Maiden Voyage]

it is looking back in time right?

no they are new

 

[Hawking Radiation]

And we probably will. Though I wouldn't expect it to soon. As for now scientists/teams from all over the world are fighting to get time for even small projects/shots.

There's a mom/daughter exoplanet hunter team looking to get time on Webb to study a few exoplanets. I'm looking forward to what they find.

I pray to god they have a crack at Trappist 1 system of exoplanets.