The James Webb Space Telescope

[pinball1970]

Black spots can represent an image where the detector is saturated at that point. It does not say in the link.

 

[pinball1970]

This is a nice one Pandora's cluster. Bottom right quarter looks like lensing.

 

[BillTre]

DennisN looks at Fomalhaut's Center and Finds Much More (PF, May 12, 2023)

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Sorry, I could not resist .

So you are imitating an AI which is often thought of as imitating humans.
An interesting twist with a lot of potential applications.

 

[pinball1970]

https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-earliest-complex-organic-molecules

PAH are important in the RNA OOL mechanism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAH_world_hypothesis

 

[pinball1970]

This yesterday. Barred spiral Galaxy.

 

[phinds]

This yesterday. Barred spiral Galaxy.

The bar is clear enough but I'm not seeing any spirals

 

[pinball1970]

It is close up, panned out you get this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_5068 @phinds

 

[pinball1970]

This was in universe today. Evidence of population 3 stars using data from JWST

https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.00953

 

[Bandersnatch]

This was in universe today. Evidence of population 3 stars using data from JWST

https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.00953

Breaking news: Scientists find HeII in a galaxy at the edge of the universe!

Somebody hire me as a headline writer. I'll get you all the clicks.

 

[pinball1970]

Breaking news: Scientists find HeII in a galaxy at the edge of the universe!

Somebody hire me as a headline writer. I'll get you all the clicks.

" The very high EW(HeII) suggests that the putative PopIII
stars must have a top-heavy IMF reaching an upper mass
cutoff of at least 500 M⊙."

Anything over this presumably all hell would break loose?

 

[pinball1970]

This reminds me of the famous Hubble deep field, apparently there are 45,000 galaxies in view here which is amazing.

The image is in the link but worth putting on a paste too.

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddar...kled-with-bursts-of-star-formation-webb-shows

 

[pinball1970]

This alert today.

Dust with an object in universe today that has one of those symmetrical objects that led to diffraction spike discussion.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.10778

Looks similar?

https://www.universetoday.com/162314/supernovae-are-the-source-of-dust-in-early-galaxies/

 

[pinball1970]

@Borg from #386

Looks like dust afterall!

 

[Filip Larsen]

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2023/webb-celebrates-first-year-of-science-with-new-image

 

[DennisN]

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https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2023/webb-celebrates-first-year-of-science-with-new-image

I was just going to post this, but you beat me to it.

 

[pinball1970]

@Astranut drew my attention to this on X.

 

[pinball1970]

https://webb.nasa.gov/content/webbL...31-23-STScI-01GZY2VJ33V4R0B7QKFEEQ72E1-1k.jpg

If you click on the link and get on image on the NASA site, you can zoom in closer (and closer and closer...)

Some descriptions what is going on with the lensing, dust, distances.

 

[collinsmark]

https://webb.nasa.gov/content/webbL...31-23-STScI-01GZY2VJ33V4R0B7QKFEEQ72E1-1k.jpg

If you click on the link and get on image on the NASA site, you can zoom in closer (and closer and closer...)

Some descriptions what is going on with the lensing, dust, distances.


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Here's a link to the NASA site with the expandable image:


[Edit: Actually, I see now it's not NASA's site directly, but is NASA's Flikr site. PF won't let me display the link text; it automatically embeds the media. Go ahead and click on it though to be taken to NASA's Flikr area.]

 

[mfb]

@Astranut drew my attention to this on X.

There is a big question mark here. A galaxy-sized question mark, in fact, in the bottom center of the image.

Full picture at ESAWebb

 

[collinsmark]

There is a big question mark here. A galaxy-sized question mark, in fact, in the bottom center of the image.

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Full picture at ESAWebb

Nice find!

I'm guessing it's some nebulosity within our own Milky Way Galaxy though. A new question mark shape, not to be confused with NGC 7822 (a different question mark).

 

[pinball1970]

A side by with HST , Ring Nebula Messier 57 - links to both images below

https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2023/08...icate-details-in-the-remains-of-a-dying-star/

https://esahubble.org/images/heic1310a/

I had the wrong image, it was Webb but this one is better

 

[pinball1970]

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2023/webb-reveals-new-structures-within-iconic-supernova

When I saw this image initially, I thought it looked blurred compared to the recent ring nebula images.

However, with a quick check, the Ring Nebula is located a lot closer 2,567 ly and 1.3 ly across, whereas this supernova (SN 1987A) is 168,000 ly distant and 0.6 ly across.

Plus, there is a nice history with this image. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SN_1987A

Neutrinos were observed on earth detectors few hours prior to the super nova according to the article.

Also within that link Hubble took images between 1994 and 2008 showing how it changed over time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SN_19...7a_debris_evolution_animation_time_scaled.gif

 

[DennisN]

A brand new video from the Royal Institution...
I haven't seen it myself yet, but I will.
I'm pretty sure it's good.

What has the James Webb Space Telescope discovered in its first year? – with Naomi Rowe-Gurney (14 September, 2023)


And there's also a Q&A here.

 

[pinball1970]

Webb with Chandra C.O. @Astranut (you can post these too fella!)
The detail is pretty stunning, an x-ray/IR combo.
UHZ1 Distant Galaxy and black hole.

 

[pinball1970]

This one is a Hubble-JWST combination. Galaxy Cluster MACS0416

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/webb/...ine-to-create-most-colorful-view-of-universe/

 

[pinball1970]

Picture of the Month from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope reveals intricate details of the Herbig Haro object 797 (HH 797)

An explanation of some of the features here https://phys.org/news/2023-11-webb-captures-prominent-protostar-perseus.html

A little more detail with some Hubble images of IC348 star forming region in the below link.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IC_348

 

[pinball1970]

This thread is two years old tomorrow!

Anyway, Cassiopeia A image by Webb.

Link with all the images here.

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasas-webb-stuns-with-new-high-definition-look-at-exploded-star/

From the link.

“Embedded in this gas is a mixture of dust and molecules, which will eventually become components of new stars and planetary systems.
Some filaments of debris are too tiny to be resolved by even Webb, meaning they are comparable to or less than 10 billion miles across (around 100 astronomical units).
In comparison, the entirety of Cas A spans 10 light-years across, or 60 trillion miles.”

I had to read that twice to make sure I had not missed something, so if it is 10 billion miles across it is too small to be picked up by Webb. Given the exquisite detail it is easy to take for granted how enormous these structures are.

The article has a side by side with MIRI, below is a side by side with Hubble, see the difference in resolution/detail.

JWST 2023 HST 2016

 

[Astronuc]

Rings around Uranus
https://esawebb.org/images/weic2332c/

https://cdn.esawebb.org/archives/images/screen/weic2332c.jpg

 

[DennisN]

Rings around Uranus
https://esawebb.org/images/weic2332c/

https://cdn.esawebb.org/archives/images/screen/weic2332c.jpg

...and the photo instantly viewable on PF :

 

[pinball1970]

It is on the NASA front page image today.