It’s always been an issue. New telescope, new models, new worlds – it’s all new, so get to work. MIRI anomaly.
Knowing What We Don’t Know: JWST Update #14
JWST Update # 13
Exoplanets – what a concept. Planets outside our galaxy. This is what order-of-magnitude improvement in optical capture looks like. Tarantula Nebula.
We’ve Been Warned
It’s not like the warnings haven’t been rising to an urgent crescendo for years, while greedy petroleum industry interests continue raping the planet. Now the models have enough data to get a bit more specific.
JWST Update #12
With the initial rush in the rear-view mirror, it’s time to get down to business.
“It works better than I think almost anyone hoped. It’s really a miracle,” says Rachel Somerville, an astronomer with the Flatiron Institute. “This is like nothing I’ve experienced.”
The link on that Ops overview snap takes you to the where-is-webb page on NASA’s site.
Four Ways to Fight Climate Change
JWST Update #11
Florida Education
DeSuckass is doing a great job suppressing knowledge in the Sunshine State. Floridians are now going to be not only un-woke, but in many cases completely un-educated if the school districts don’t find quite a few more teachers. Stupid voters are easy to impress with nonsense buzzword politics. He’s gonna have a little harder time legislating something to gen up many thousand more teachers.
SLS
The new Space Launch System anchored by the biggest rocket to ever attempt leaving the planet known as Artemis-1, is almost ready. We’ll be following the next Big NASA Thing along with JWST in the science and tech categories for the foreseeable future. These things do after all, represent mankind’s foreseeable future, to me.
Alaska Burning
I’m no expert on deciphering the data in some of these systems, but this looks worse in just simple terms of density and number than what we had here with the Cameron Peak Fire last year. Not in the news because not enough people are suffering from it?
JWST Update #010
Everybody puckered a bit the other day when we sustained Webb’s 1st major FOD impact. I doubt the FAA is involved with this, but it’s basically the the same issue. We’re just inside a month’s waiting to see the first full-color images.
JWST Update #009
JWST Update #008
This is what we’ve all been waiting for. Now the fun begins…
JWST Update #007
“These images have profoundly changed the way I see the universe,” Scott Acton, Webb wavefront sensing and controls scientist at Ball Aerospace, said in the NASA statement. “We are surrounded by a symphony of creation; there are galaxies everywhere. It is my hope that everyone in the world can see them.”
Completely aligned and fully focused.
JWST Update #006
I heard that last instrument was just shy of absolute zero a couple days ago. It’s a new dawn in space exploration.
Just JWST
For the time being it will be just “JWST,” to me.
Eugene Parker 10JUN27-15MAR22
I became a fan of his only recently, and haven’t scratched the surface in reading his work yet. Probably never will. His is one of those few legacies truly larger than life.
He was waiting for Webb’s 1st images. Not to worry, Eugene – she’s up and running.