....and what a great pic?
....and what a great pic?
Keith - Administrator
The full aspect ratio one is better.
To me it looks more like a slightly deranged extremely happy tadpole rather than a rose as is being reported elsewhere
It is stunning as ever!
The Hubble telescope has been a huge success and produced some beautiful and extraordinary images with
quite a few breakthroughs in astrophysics
Can't wait to see what comes from the next leap - the James Webb Space Telescope
It's looking like it's been pushed back to 2017 now :(
Originally Posted by JimOttley
It's the same pic!!!
The JWT doesn't have an optical camera like the Hubble.
Keith - Administrator
Absolutely amazing. Makes my head hurt thinking about space / time etc. Just reading that bill bryson book "A short history of nearly everything" and the first few chapters explain all that very well but it can still make your head spin
It's been emontional
What is amazing about the pic is how much new star formation the interaction has started (the blue bits for those who don't know) ..... starting a few billions years of millions of stars...... and likely life
Keith - Administrator
There will be four science instruments on Webb: the Near InfraRed Camera (NIRCam), the Near InfraRed Spectrograph (NIRSpec), the Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI), and the Fine Guidance Sensor Tunable Filter Camera (FGS-TFI) . Webb's instruments will be designed to work primarily in the infrared range of the electromagnetic spectrum, with some capability in the visible range. It will be sensitive to light from 0.6 to 27 micrometers in wavelength.
Webb has four main science themes: The End of the Dark Ages: First Light and Reionization, The Assembly of Galaxies, The Birth of Stars and Protoplanetary Systems, and Planetary Systems and the Origins of Life.
Source:-
http://www.jwst.nasa.gov/about.html
Floats my boat. Exciting stuff for me.
Yes but the first one is cropped heavily and they lose a large part of the stem of the 'Rose' at the bottom of the shot.
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