Space, the final frontier

The Webb Space Telescope is a 20 years project that has pushed us ahead in precision fabrication, optics, image processing and more before it even started returning data.

Cost? $10 billion.

Amount sent to Ukraine? 6x that. Up in smoke.

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I had to make a before and after to really appreciate how good the James Webb Telescope really is. pic.twitter.com/dj0HL8XGaZ

— Jason Short (@jason4short) July 11, 2022

James Webb Space Telescope detects water on distant planet

https://www.independent.co.uk/space/james-webb-space-telescope-water-planet-aliens-b2121437.html

Discovery could help in hunt for alien life

Nasa has revealed that the James Webb Space Telescope has detected signs of water on a planet more than a thousand light years away.

The US space agency said it’s multi-billion dollar space telescope “captured the signature of water” on the giant gas planet WASP 96-b, which orbits a star 1,150 light years away.

“For the first time, we’ve detected evidence of clouds in this exoplanet’s atmosphere,” Nasa tweeted.



The revelation comes as Nasa, ESA (European Space Agency) and CSA (Candadian Space Agency) share the first set of full-colour images taken by the telescope, which capture the deepest images of the universe ever made.

The ultra high-resolution images also show stellar life cycles and interacting galaxies.

The latest discovery offers hope that the most-powerful space telescope every built could help in the hunt for alien life, or even uncover potential habitable planets for future humans to live on.

“Exploring exoplanets is now a major component of the mission,” a Nasa spokesperson said.

The unveiling of the first set of images from the James Webb Space Telescope marks “the dawn of a new era in astronomy”, Nasa said.

“The first images from the world’s largest and most powerful space telescope will demonstrate Webb at its full power, ready to begin its mission to unfold the infrared universe,” the space agency added.

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Stanislav Lem u Soalrisu

We have no need for other worlds. We need mirrors. We don't know what to do with other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can't accept it for what it is. We are searching for an ideal image of our own world: we go in quest of a planet, of a civilization superior of our own but developed on the basis of a prototype of our primeval past

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Pa otprilike.

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I made a tool to compare Webb's new images to Hubble! https://t.co/1JqTxabgGC#JamesWebbSpaceTelescope pic.twitter.com/2wRO8t0LXD

— John Christensen (@Johnnyc1423) July 12, 2022

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bela maca wrote:ne znam kako embedovati ovo

https://preview.redd.it/hwuqfbii17b91.gif?format=mp4&s=a3f6c7bd9699b6dcbac773f8015ec20f9baf6aa5

I made a tool to compare Webb's new images to Hubble! https://t.co/1JqTxabgGC#JamesWebbSpaceTelescope pic.twitter.com/2wRO8t0LXD

— John Christensen (@Johnnyc1423) July 12, 2022