Looks like when they release an 80s science-fiction show with "new and improved CGI". I actually prefer the Hubble photo as a photo.
I've loaded the HST version of that into image editors and rotated it various ways to see what other names it might have had if the accident of orientation had come out differently. It most often looks like a hand to me.
Once you see that the one in the middle looks like a phallus, you cannot unsee it. You're welcome.
Raw URL = fail. Why should I bother clicking the link?
I'm well aware of how the tags work and often use them. It's not a forum rule that they must be used. For this particular video I would actually recommend using the YouTube site to view it because the description has time stamps that allow you to skip to the interesting parts. I usually skip ahead to the news stories myself since I'm not very interested in parts like the ad read. If you just watch it embedded you cannot use these functions.
Dr. Becky talks about JWST's Pillars of Creation
It would be nice if the forum interface had a button for that, like they do for other tags. To embed a YouTube link in [yt] tags, especially from a mobile phone (I'm not always posting from my computer) is more complicated that using other tags. I don't mind so much when I'm at home using a mouse and keyboard. But I'll try to avoid it in the future.A few extra keystrokes; a much more informative post.
I never watch YouTube videos directly; I download them to my computer using yt-dlp and watch them using VLC. This lets me bypass the freaking ads and have finer control over the playback.
Webb Mid-Infrared Instrument Mode Returns to Functionality
Thebattle stationtelescope is fully operational again!
The filter wheel that was sticky has been unstuck.
False colour? No doubt but it does not say.Another fascinating false-colour image from the telescope: https://esawebb.org/images/weic2219a/
False colour? No doubt but it does not say.
But resembling true colour if we were nearby I thought we decided.All JWST images are necessarily false color, it goes without saying. JWST doesn't see in the visible.
But resembling true colour if we were nearby I thought we decided.
Another fascinating false-colour image from the telescope: https://esawebb.org/images/weic2219a/
But resembling true colour if we were nearby I thought we decided.
Before the dying star shed its layers, the team proposes that it interacted with one or even two smaller companion stars. During this intimate “dance,” the interacting stars may have launched two-sided jets, which appeared later as roughly paired projections that are now observed at the edges of the nebula. “This is much more hypothetical, but if two companions were interacting with the dying star, they would launch toppling jets that could explain these opposing bumps,” De Marco explained. The dusty cloak around the dying star points to these interactions.
Where are those companions now? They are either dim enough to hide, camouflaged by the bright lights of the two central stars, or have merged with the dying star.
The complex shapes of the Southern Ring Nebula are more evidence of additional unseen companions – its ejections are thinner in some areas and thicker in others. A third closely interacting star may have agitated the jets, skewing the evenly balanced ejections like spin art. In addition, a fourth star with a slightly wider orbit might have also “stirred the pot” of ejections, like a spatula running through batter in the same direction each time, generating the enormous set of rings in the outer reaches of the nebula.
[IMGW=800]https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/stsci-01gnvz7q8jshhz5fe3x1q7wzhb.png[/IMGW]Researchers confirmed an exoplanet, a planet that orbits another star, using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope for the first time. Formally classified as LHS 475 b, the planet is almost exactly the same size as our own, clocking in at 99% of Earth’s diameter. The research team is led by Kevin Stevenson and Jacob Lustig-Yaeger, both of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland.
The team chose to observe this target with Webb after carefully reviewing targets of interest from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), which hinted at the planet’s existence. Webb’s Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) captured the planet easily and clearly with only two transit observations. “There is no question that the planet is there. Webb’s pristine data validate it,” said Lustig-Yaeger. “The fact that it is also a small, rocky planet is impressive for the observatory,” Stevenson added.