The James Webb Telescope.

[Dubbag]

And amazing to think the JWT is so far away this time....there would be no space walk to fix anything.
If they get the life expectancy out of JWT as from Hubble, it will be some achievement.

This one has more instruments dealing with Infra red end of things in the universe, which Hubble hadn't. First images are exciting.

[BaggieBlood]

Can this see where Lai wallet containing his billions is?

[phild]

Its fair to say that in the 21st century some technologies are better than others

[Dubbag]

Its fair to say that in the 21st century some technologies are better than others

That's very true Phil and a good point.
I often wondered if they turned Hubble towards earth....how much they could see....😇

[Dubbag]

Being reported by AP....
Astronomers have detected a strange and persistent "heartbeat" radio signal coming from a far-off galaxy.

It has been classified as a fast radio burst (FR, but where such signals are normally intensely strong emissions of radio waves of unknown origin - that typically last a few milliseconds at most - this one is different.

FRB are unknown signals in space that are emitted periodically. They are truly weird.
But this is different again.
I think space/cosmos is beginning to get more involved in life on planet earth......about time too.....

[Dubbag]

Really getting fed up with this stuff all the time now......

The $10bn telescope is named in tribute to James Webb, an American official who was the second administrator of Nasa. Webb led the space agency during many of the Apollo missions in the 1960s and also served as the US undersecretary of state from 1949 to 1952.

The telescope’s name has been criticised by many scientists amid allegations that Webb was linked to persecution of LGBTQ+ people in the 1950s and 1960s. The Lavender Scare witch-hunt resulted in the mass dismissal of gay and lesbian people from the US government service in the mid-20th century.

[mickd1961]

Interesting documentary about the telescope last night on BBC2.

Given that they reckon this now allows them to look back over 13.6 billion years to the time when the first stars were forming I wonder if our next leap in this type of technology will see us be able to look all the way back to the “Big Bang” 13.8 billion years ago?

Imagine being able to see the moment time and the universe started!

Maybe we’d get a surprise and the “start” was something totally different to what we’ve come used to believing in?

At some point will we be able to witness the birth of our own Sun and our own Earth?

Will we ever be able to look through space time to look at our own Earth with dinosaurs roaming?

I guess we’d need to be far enough away from Earth with another telescope looking back at ourselves?

Space fascinated me, it has done so since Apollo 8 in 1968 when I was 7 years old.

I always wanted to live at Moonbase Alpha on the UFO TV programme when I was a kid and I was spellbound by those UFO’s and the aliens who had the green fluid in their masks 😎

[Dubbag]

Interesting documentary about the telescope last night on BBC2.

Given that they reckon this now allows them to look back over 13.6 billion years to the time when the first stars were forming I wonder if our next leap in this type of technology will see us be able to look all the way back to the “Big Bang” 13.8 billion years ago?

Imagine being able to see the moment time and the universe started!

Maybe we’d get a surprise and the “start” was something totally different to what we’ve come used to believing in?

At some point will we be able to witness the birth of our own Sun and our own Earth?

Will we ever be able to look through space time to look at our own Earth with dinosaurs roaming?

I guess we’d need to be far enough away from Earth with another telescope looking back at ourselves?

Space fascinated me, it has done so since Apollo 8 in 1968 when I was 7 years old.

I always wanted to live at Moonbase Alpha on the UFO TV programme when I was a kid and I was spellbound by those UFO’s and the aliens who had the green fluid in their masks ��

The topic is taken much more seriously then the "green masks" thing nowadays.....The sensors on the JWST are primed for exploration of the infra-red end of the spectrum (which allows the scope to see through all the dust clouds) and to analysis the chemical composition of planets already discovered by "The Kepler space telescope." for life signs or signatures..
The Senate in US has gone into behind doors investigations of the US air force recent conclusions on the subject and most recent released videos.

[Dubbag]

Much more serious then first thought....
SKY....
NASA has reported that a meteoroid hit on the James Webb Space Telescope has caused "significant uncorrectable" damage to one of the panels it uses to stare into deep space.

https://news.sky.com/story/meteoroid...scope-12655489

[mickd1961]

Much more serious then first thought....
SKY....
NASA has reported that a meteoroid hit on the James Webb Space Telescope has caused "significant uncorrectable" damage to one of the panels it uses to stare into deep space.

https://news.sky.com/story/meteoroid...scope-12655489

This was always going to be a problem with this telescope.

It always struck me as to the danger level with a 20 year project such as this.

Millions of man hours of work over that period stood a reasonable chance of dying on the launch pad for starters.

Space is such a difficult thing to deal with.