First Image from the James Webb telescope...

[MontyVeda]

Its going the opposite direction.

You are seeing light from the star just after the big bang which was 13.8 billion years ago but to travel to it would take 27 billion years (assuming you could stop expansion of the universe whilst travelling)

What?! .... a bloke in town holding a 'the end is nigh' plaque told me it was 6,000* years old

* which is still very very old... I'm only fifty three

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Can that be right if the universe is only (!) 13.8 billion years old?

View: https://youtu.be/vIJTwYOZrGU

 

[winjim]

I hate you. You completely had me and I was being so nice and patient while gritting my teeth.

You were very accommodating.

 

[Profpointy]

I should have known when you said look at the wibble wobble

Wibble wobble is a thing though isn't it ?

 

[Dogtrousers]

Wibble wobble is a thing though isn't it ?

I remember my A level physics teacher calling Young's Modulus "the coefficient of dingly-dangly"

 

[newfhouse]

Its going the opposite direction.

You are seeing light from the star just after the big bang which was 13.8 billion years ago but to travel to it would take 27 billion years (assuming you could stop expansion of the universe whilst travelling)

Ah, of course. Thanks for prompting me to read up about the Hubble Constant.

 

[Jody]

Wibble wobble is a thing though isn't it ?

Depends on how many pints you've had.

 

[hobo]

Surely if they look back far enough they're see God.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

The company I'm working with at the moment has been developing this with NASA for 20 years. There's great excitement, to say the least.

 

[Dirk]

Surely if they look back far enough they're see God.

Non sequiter.

 

[Jody]

I didn't get much free time last night so decided to take a good look around the 4K pictures floating around online.

Spent about half an hour on the galaxy picture and it's amazing. The definition of the smaller galaxies captured, coupled with the detail in the dark areas is mind blowing.

There may be some artistic license choosing the hues and what gets touched up, but they are stunning.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

There may be some artistic license choosing the hues

No colour in the infrared (to our eyes) so it is all "artistic license"

 

[Ming the Merciless]

No colour in the infrared (to our eyes) so it is all "artistic license"

Not really, red shift is well understand, we understand the wavelength signatures emitted by different star types, and the colours can be pretty well determined. Even red shifted the light received paints a signature.

 

[Jody]

Programme about JWST on BBC2 tonight at 8PM.

Thanks for the head up.

Hopefully it's on iplayer afterwards as we ditched Sky a few weeks ago and haven't sorted anything for live TV yet.

 

[lazybloke]

Thanks for the head up.

Hopefully it's on iplayer afterwards as we ditched Sky a few weeks ago and haven't sorted anything for live TV yet.

I'm a few minutes into it on iplayer.
Fantastic so far.