James Webb Telescope Captures Surreal Images of Jupiter's Auroras (engadget.com) 31
The James Webb Space Telescope has snapped a pair of near-infrared photos showing Jupiter's polar auroras. "You can also see the planet's extremely faint rings and two of its smaller moons, Amalthea (the bright spot to the far left) and Adrastea (the dot at the left edge of the central ring)," notes Engadget. From the report: The pictures were taken using NIRCam's widefield view on July 27th. As for the trippy visuals? Astronomers created composites using several images produced with filters mapped to multiple colors (particularly visible in the image below). The Great Red Spot and other cloud formations are white as they reflect large amounts of sunlight. The observations should provide more insights into Jupiter's "inner life," according to the European Space Agency. That, in turn, could help scientists understand the behavior of gas giants beyond the Solar System.
Applying some Instagram filter (Score:2, Funny)
How else would you motivate politicians to write another billion check for an oversized camera which can only take pictures of a long forgotten past and some barren planets?
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Oh what good is looking at it if you can't mess with it?
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We pursue knowledge for it's own sake. That is one of the only things left that makes me think we aren't necessarily bound for another few centuries in the dark ages. It was worth every penny.
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Oh, we're definitely bound for another few centuries in the dark ages. As evidenced by every time some space related article comes up. You'll see the retrograde crew checking in to squawk about what a waste of money it is when blah blah blah starving kids and homeless people.
Look, assholes. That argument didn't work to force-feed me another helping when I was at Grandma's as a kid. I see no reason why it should curtail all of human ingenuity and curiosity. People are starving and homeless because we suck at
Re: Applying some Instagram filter (Score:2)
If anything, the whole "feed the poor instead" argument died decades ago. I remember a bunch of activists preaching it on camera during an Apollo mission. They were all fat.
Erm, exoplanet atmospheres please (Score:5, Interesting)
Webb can do one thing that would change humanity's entire view of our place in the universe.
So you'll forgive me for not getting too excited about them spending viewing time getting better pictures of Jupiter.
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Webb can do one thing that would change humanity's entire view of our place in the universe.
So you'll forgive me for not getting too excited about them spending viewing time getting better pictures of Jupiter.
It is interesting that they can see the rings so clearly when it's really not that long since they were discovered by Voyager flying past at very close range.
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It's a way to get reference info to compare to distant planets. And calibrate; it's still new.
Science misinformation (Score:5, Informative)
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While searching for JWST information on YouTube I was astounded by the number of YouTube channels publishing blatantly false claims.
Oh? Have you not used YouTube before, then?
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Just click bait. (Score:2)
You'll never get rid of it. I mean, imagine if you did. You wouldn't BELIEVE what would happen next! It would rock your fundamental understanding of the world, and destroy all you pre-existing knowledge. You would be baffled!
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Correction ignores a lot of real data (Score:1)
Your correction itself does not seem very scientific, and seems to be doing a lot of gaslighting.
It focuses on the emotional quotes from the original article, but pretty much ignores the real story was that nine out of ten predicted results were quite wrong!
It ignores for example that while it's looking at galaxies that are just a 4-5 hundred million years after the "Big Bang", the galaxies appear to be over a billion years old... that is, they have existed since before the "Big Bang".
It ignores that galaxy
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At this point there is enough counter-evidence to say the Big Bang probably did not happen, it doesn't have to be God but Big Bang as a viable theory looks pretty dead to me based on hard evidence. Even though it's been somewhat shaky for ears, this image was the turning point, just way too many predictions failed.
And like I said, there are just a lot of scientists unwilling to let go and accept what teh results are saying.
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While searching for JWST information on YouTube I was astounded by the number of YouTube channels publishing blatantly false claims.
You have discovered what Youtube is all about. Most of it's content is the GenZ (or whatever) version of "fake news" on lame-stream media.
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If I could (Score:1)
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That would be great because now we have proof that Galeo was wrong ( he put the sun fixed at the center of the universe).
But the difference is, Galileo would understand and say " so that's how it works, thank you"
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And the problem is, the followers of the Cult of Galileo would stone you to death for questioning the doctrine of a heliocentric universe, you infidel pig.
Just as the followers of the cult of woke, or the followers of the cult of Trump will stone you for questioning their beliefs.
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Those effing Copernicans, my keyboard is ready for them!!!
Stand Back and Stand By, fellow Big Bang Cosmologist believers!
Was Galileo wrong? (Score:2)
I guess you could conclude that Galileo was wrong... but I hope to be that wrong at some point in my lifetime. Considering the limitations of knowledge at the time, his conclusions were pretty great. He yanked away the earth's special place at the centre, and moved it to an observationally supportable body. It's like saying Newton was "wrong". He was pretty spectacularly spot on for being wrong.
Not objecting to the characterization, mind you. I just like giving appropriate credit when I can.
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