The James Webb Telescope.

[Dubbag]

Just seen the first image released by NASA on the test star they used for calibrating the mirrors and the images accuracy.
They used the star to get pin point precision. The image is astounding. Even looking at it through a lossy JPEG image on the internet throws up amazing details...
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60771210
While the world recoils with anger to the many conflicts going on around the world......we as human beings still search out life in the Cosmos.....this scope is a game changer.....this cost as much as the Large Hadron Collider at Cern.....
For me its a distraction from the relentless bad news stories that seem to be all over the place....

[mickd1961]

Fantastic Dubs, thank you for that.

I’m so looking forward to seeing the wonders that this telescope may show.

I wonder if we’ll ever build anything sensitive enough to actually picture the Big Bang?

There may be more chance of finding a telescope capable of seeing Lai putting his hand in his pocket!

[Dubbag]

If you look at that image and open it separately....and zoom around it...you can see lots of galaxies in it....considering they were focusing on the star......the diffraction spikes a real indication of accuracy. I got a shot before of Betelgeuse, which is massive....and I tied some very thin fishing line across the hood of the telescope to create a cross hairs lines across the mirror on the scope....and when I did manage to get excellent focus....the thing was brilliant...well I thought....must try and find that image.....

I don't think it will get to that point because most of our known science today doesn't have a good handle on the event itself....only that something happened that had physics, the likes of which we wouldn't know anything about but you never know.

[Dubbag]

Found it..
It is a most amazing star to see through a decent scope......for a start...it actually looks round...it is so massive....where as most other stars are always just points of light....
Incidentally...it dimmed quite dramatically last year....

[mickd1961]

Absolute quality Dubs.

I could watch programmes about space for hours on end.

[kettering_baggie]

What a great image! Yes, Betelgeuse did dim dramatically and there was speculation that it was about to go ‘supernova’. The dimming was, I believe, put down to a gas cloud passing between the star and us.

When you consider the technology required to develop and deploy that telescope, it makes one think that finding a way to kill Putred wouldn’t be that difficult!

[Dubbag]

The PloughCrescent MoonJupiter on a horrible night for imaging.

[phild]

Thanks for posting dubs

[WBA1955]

Fantastic Dubs, I am always fascinated by the heavens, how vast they are and how irrelevant we as humans are. If we blew ourselves up nobody would miss us, though the planet would benefit in the long term. An insane species of bacteria living on a rock in the middle of nowhere is how I have always viewed us.

Dubs there is a chap from Kingswinford called Richard Guest, he is on FB, check out the photos on his page.

[Dubbag]

Fantastic Dubs, I am always fascinated by the heavens, how vast they are and how irrelevant we as humans are. If we blew ourselves up nobody would miss us, though the planet would benefit in the long term. An insane species of bacteria living on a rock in the middle of nowhere is how I have always viewed us.

Dubs there is a chap from Kingswinford called Richard Guest, he is on FB, check out the photos on his page.

Am not on FB Des.....but the equipment around today for amateurs is breathtaking...and not overly expensive......it's why I feel contact is inevitable for our species now...We are at a very important filter point in evolution. We could, as you state...blow ourselves up and nobody would miss us....however my view is different to yours..
I believe we would be missed and dearly......and so because of that....we must prepare for the inevitable....that our reality is false and a new reality is dawning as we speak and war is just one outward sign as there are many...

It shall not prove any easy time for our species but it can not be avoided...it is part of a long process.
But I shall be clear about one thing......when this event breaks, it will not be a hazy blob of light moving erratically across some digital grainy camera image...you shall be in no doubt...this is real....because it won't be going away...it will be in clear sight for all to see.

There will be no landing on the white house lawn as that government is not representative of humanity..,...
We shall all stand alone but we shall all stand alone together......