James Webb Space Telescope

[☎need4naiim☎]

NASA's dedicated JWST page:
https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/index.html


Ladies and Gentlemen;

After 25 years of unbelievably detailed level of engineering, NASA has launched the most powerful space telescope ever made, in collaboration with ESA and Ariane Team. The worthy successor to the iconic Hubble Space Telescope is now on its way to the L2 orbit after a perfect launch on Christmas Day. Called the James Webb Space Telescope, JWST promises to transform the way we study the cosmos. It is also called as "Time Machine" because it MAY change the known Age of Universe by catching the lights which are even older than 13.8 billion years.

I have made this thread as a place to share all-new "historical" news and unbelievably detailed photos of distant cosmos that will hopefully come from the telescope after a successful launch and an unfurling process that will take up to two weeks to complete.

After its launch, this telescope will go to a distance of 1 million miles away from Earth (unlike Hubble Space Telescope's 547 km) to the Lagrange Point 2 (L2). The Webb will orbit the Sun near L2, a gravitationally stable solar orbit that's roughly 1 million miles from Earth, on the opposite side of our planet from the Sun.

This is an extremely complicated launch and mission, with many opportunities for things to go wrong during the processes. But if everything goes right, the world’s astronomers will have an incredibly powerful tool at their disposal for the next 5.5 to 10 years.

JWST is equipped with enough tools and machinery to unravel more mysteries of supermassive blackholes, distant alien worlds, stellar explosions, Dark Matter, and possible new planets or moons of known planets in Solar System.


It is said that it can spot a stationary bee on the surface of the Moon. It is claimed that JWST can spot which seat a person sits in a hypothetical car on the surface of Pluto. Can you believe that? 👀

Since i can't write every little aspect of this telescope here, one by one, you can read a more detailed description in these links:

https://www.theverge.com/22826899/james-webb-space-telescope-jwst-launch-mission-what-to-expect

https://spaceflightnow.com/2021/12/23/webb-telescope-is-a-time-machine-for-astronomers-to-see-the-cosmic-dawn/

NASA TV’s provided live video coverage of the Ariane 5 launch with JWST at 3 a.m. EST (08:00 GMT) on Dec. 25 2021. You can directly reach NASA TV from here, anytime:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=21X5lGlDOfg



This will be the most important space mission of this Century if JWST can operate smoothly on its orbit. 🚀

[crunchyfrog]

引用自 davidb11：

Oh. Okay.
IT's weird, because I never learned that word ever in my physics class.

It's more used in space travel and rocketry.

So I can understand it as it's something isn't general across a lot of fields, unlike force in general.

[davidb11]

Ah. THat would explain it.

[Devsman]

In my physics class, we talked about it with certain types of collisions. Golf club hits a ball, basilisk running on water.

[spammerz]

引用自 ｢C❤️A｣ Pocahawtness：

I think we all too often blame the politicians but I think the people are to blame too. I remember a recent poll after the Russian assassinations in the UK. The majority of people supported taking action even if it led to war. It was at that point that I thought that we have truly forgotten how bad war is and are also deluded to think we could win such a conflict. But it also raises another point - That if you annoy people enough they WILL launch in to conflict even if it is ridiculous.

You are 100% correct, we are all to blame. We do nothing about it no matter what happens, so long as its not in our faces directly, and even then many do nothing. They would have a tougher time starting their wars if everybody refused to to their dirty work. If only we put as much effort into clean ethical science and looking after the world rather than trashing it like petty spoiled brats.

Most people did not favor going to war with Russia over the UK assassinations, if you refer to the fake Novichok incident. Nobody really cares if spies get assassinated, no matter who they work for. The media was trying to make out "the nation was outraged" but in truth, nobody cared and found it all quite suspicious. People were looking more to blame the lying UK government than that Russians.

While the Ukraine simmers, I hope that science via the ISS and JWST helps unite us as a species. It is a huge universe and all we do is bicker and destroy everything in site. Our species needs to evolve or its going to be lights out permanently for everybody.

We need more international joint efforts to fix the problems we have created on our home planet.
Seems a shame to nuke the planet before we even get a pic sent back from the $10 billion telescope. I'm amazed we have survived this long as a species given the odds.

[davidb11]

The odds about us surviving is not that bleak.

[Masque]

Forgive me if I'm out of line, but I do believe this thread is about a space telescope.

[crunchyfrog]

引用自 spammerz：

引用自 ｢C❤️A｣ Pocahawtness：

I think we all too often blame the politicians but I think the people are to blame too. I remember a recent poll after the Russian assassinations in the UK. The majority of people supported taking action even if it led to war. It was at that point that I thought that we have truly forgotten how bad war is and are also deluded to think we could win such a conflict. But it also raises another point - That if you annoy people enough they WILL launch in to conflict even if it is ridiculous.

You are 100% correct, we are all to blame. We do nothing about it no matter what happens, so long as its not in our faces directly, and even then many do nothing. They would have a tougher time starting their wars if everybody refused to to their dirty work. If only we put as much effort into clean ethical science and looking after the world rather than trashing it like petty spoiled brats.

Most people did not favor going to war with Russia over the UK assassinations, if you refer to the fake Novichok incident. Nobody really cares if spies get assassinated, no matter who they work for. The media was trying to make out "the nation was outraged" but in truth, nobody cared and found it all quite suspicious. People were looking more to blame the lying UK government than that Russians.

While the Ukraine simmers, I hope that science via the ISS and JWST helps unite us as a species. It is a huge universe and all we do is bicker and destroy everything in site. Our species needs to evolve or its going to be lights out permanently for everybody.

We need more international joint efforts to fix the problems we have created on our home planet.
Seems a shame to nuke the planet before we even get a pic sent back from the $10 billion telescope. I'm amazed we have survived this long as a species given the odds.

That is a perfect example of the Tytler Cycle.

We don't learn as humans. We are absoklutely crap at it.

So yeah we have forgotten how bad war is, and people will puff out their chetss and say "yeah let's go to war" without even thinking of the condequences either.

Look how the same sort of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ moaned when they voted for Breixt then wodnered why they couldn't get half the goods they wanted. They don't look futher than the end of their nose, and we aon the whole never learn and quickly go back to being complacent.

I wonder how long it'll take us with COVID. Hoping that we get to a stage where it only pops up every year for vaccination and drops to the level of flu, you can bank people won#'t care or anything.

Then the next pandemic we get, it'll be back to square one.

[spammerz]

引用自 Ⓜ Ⓐ Ⓢ Ⓠ Ⓤ Ⓔ：

Forgive me if I'm out of line, but I do believe this thread is about a space telescope.

Part of that discussion is also about the achievements of humans (space exploration a possitive), military and destructive psychology obsession a negative.)
The telescope cost around $10 billion pending who you ask for a reference. How much was spent on the military in just the past 20 years that could have been used for something constructive in science ?

Imagine the advances that could be made in ethical science if it had the same motivation, funding and vigour and obsession of the pointless war machine. War takes. The ISS, Hubble, JWST etc. gives.

I look forward to the first images we get back from the new space toy, I don't look forward to the next war, or current wars.

[spammerz]

引用自 davidb11：

The odds about us surviving is not that bleak.

Considering the past few centuries of human history and weapons tech, are you sure ?
It is bad enough that we have to deal with mass extinction rocks floating around in space. We have had a long run but the problem is that we now have the WMD tech to wipe out everything. It is a dumb insane monkey at the controls of the planets future.

[davidb11]

The problem here is humanity understands the dangers of nuclear weapons.
That's why M.A.D exists.

[crunchyfrog]

引用自 davidb11：

The problem here is humanity understands the dangers of nuclear weapons.
That's why M.A.D exists.

They do, but the bigger issue is humanity or at least the more stupid ones, never look very far ahead. They never seem to even consider consequences of direct actions let alone a few moves ahead.

So they will happily puff their chests out spout "patriotism" and all that ♥♥♥♥ and vote for certain things then not realise it affects THEM directly.

[spammerz]

引用自 davidb11：

The problem here is humanity understands the dangers of nuclear weapons.
That's why M.A.D exists.

You think that will stop a psycho from using a nuke ?
We also have Biological and Chemical WMD's to worry about.
The results of unethical science.

[Pocahawtness]

引用自 spammerz：

..if you refer to the fake Novichok incident...

You lost me at that point.
There is only one larger danger than war and that is the rising tide of conspiracy theories, that people seem to adore but make absolutely no sense whatsoever.

[davidb11]

Yeah. THat's a good point.
Conspiracy Theories are bizarre to put it mildly. When they become too massive.

[spammerz]

引用自 davidb11：

Yeah. THat's a good point.
Conspiracy Theories are bizarre to put it mildly. When they become too massive.

Conspiracies do in fact happen, as seen at the murder of JFK and his brother, 911, the fact that we have Secret Services is so many nations, Spies etc.
In modern times of misinformation, "Conspiracy Theory" is just a dismissive term to mock anybody that questions the authorities, heretics. We are still waiting for those Iraqi WMD's to turn up.