The James Webb telescope

Just astounding!

I was looking for something else on YouTube and came across this 8:56 video of what the James Webb has seen.

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Every Stunning Image Captured By James Webb Space Telescope So Far

21 Jul 2023

The James Webb Space Telescope has completed its first year of science operations. In its first year, the $10-billion infrared space observatory challenged our understanding of the cosmos and showed the universe in a way no other telescope in the past could. In this video, you will find every James Webb Space Telescope image released so far: From the mesmerizing images of the planets of the solar system to the gigantic galaxies seen at the edge of time.

Sunday Discovery Series: https://bit.ly/369kG4p

COSMOS in a Minute Series: https://bit.ly/470VLL8

Music 1: Ambient Piano by LukePN

Music 2: Interstellar by Stereonuts

Created by: Rishabh Nakra

Images: NASA/ESA/JWST

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Not everyone’s cup of tea but for those that cast their eyes to the stars this was astounding!

8 thoughts on “The James Webb telescope”

  1. Yes it is very beautiful. For me, I think the Deep Field and Cluster images are the most beautiful of what was shown because they show the richness of the Universe. They estimate that there are 2 trillion galaxies in the observable Universe, each galaxy having hundreds of billions of stars. With my puny telescope I can see somethings too in the middle of Dallas with all the light pollution, for example, the four Galilean moons around Jupiter and the fuzzy shape being Saturn’s rings.

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    1. Thomas, it is an incomprehensible number of stars with an even greater number of planets orbiting those stars. And the thought that we are the only intelligent species out there is nonsense, in my opinion! We just need time to find them (and that is if we don’t cook our planet in the interim). The Universe is profoundly beautiful.

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      1. Mindboggling. And beautiful. Thanks for the pointer to the video, Paul.

        As for the idea of other intelligent species ‘out there’; I’m sure you’re not wrong. But I’m also fairly confident that the reason we’ve not heard from them is that intelligent life is too short-lived, due to its short-sightedness. Our own situation is a case in point; just look at the mess we’re making of Spaceship Earth.

        … speaking of which, I dropped by to check on you. I heard yesterday that there have been some problems in Oregon lately. I hope that you, Jean, and your extended family (humans and animals) are well.

        PS How’s the new book coming along? I do hope you’ll let me know when it’s published so that I can grab a copy.

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      3. Our planet Earth has a thin, fragile atmosphere with the gases that all living life requires. It wasn’t always that way. Earth has an atmosphere that is not found on any other planet in the Universe.

        Here is a part copy from a Wikipedia piece: “In demographics, the world population is the total number of humans currently living. It was estimated by the United Nations to have exceeded eight billion in mid-November 2022. It took around 300,000 years of human prehistory and history for the human population to reach one billion and only 222 years more to reach 8 billion.”

        My belief is that the ‘mess’ we are making is simply the rise in population plus the increasing standard of living in so many countries. We have very little time, perhaps only 25 years, to change our lifestyle, to reduce our impact on the globe, to be able to survive more than those 25 years or so. Maybe I will live for those years or rather I wonder if I do whether I shall still be able to understand stuff! I am 78, approaching 79 in November.

        Here we are terribly affected by the smoke from the forest fires. We have two fires just within a few miles of us and we are hoping they don’t advance in our direction. I guess those are the problems you have heard of in Oregon. If not then let me know.

        Jeannie and I and our three dogs are doing alright. Jeannie is coping with her Parkinson’s and we hope that our pescatarian diet is serving, pardon the pun, our interests well.

        My new book, the autobiography, is on hold at the moment. I went through and changed it from first person to third person and then I dropped it for a while; not sure why but then it has been so hot that I haven’t been able to stay at my desk for ages and ages. But I will get back to it in time. Then I have to think of a cover and whether I will do that myself or pay for a company to do it for me. It is not a commercial venture that is for sure.

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  2. Hmm… the wonders of modern technology…

    I can’t see a ‘Reply’ option on your last two comments here, Paul. Could be an issue on your site’s config, but it could equally be something to do with a change to my web browser. We’re increasingly reliant on systems, and they’re becoming increasingly fragile. The farcical situation regarding airline flights reported in the news lately is a case in point: the UK’s National Air Traffic Service admitted that “it was due to a single item of data” (or some such; although it sounds tiny, it could cover a multitude of sins, such as – who knows? – an attack by parties intending to cause mischief); and they also said that “they’ve taken steps to ensure it won’t happen again” (which sounds reassuring, but ignores the possibility that something similar is almost inevitable, as, to me, it illustrates a lack of robustness in design).

    Good to hear that you’re well. Yes, it was the fires in Oregon that I’d heard of. They’re widespread across Spaceship Earth at present, and no doubt there’ll be more to come. A symptom of our warming world, about which so many are still in denial.

    Concerning the explosive growth of homo fatuus brutus: yes, I’m aware of the numbers you cite. They’re represented more viscerally in a video I posted a few years back:

    As for myself, I’ve long been a proud member of VHEMT 🙂

    Concerning our atmosphere: Auntie Beeb presented ‘Earth‘, presented by Chris Packham, on BBC2 recently. It’s a short documentary series that explains how our planet changed, over a mindboggling timespan, from a lump of rock to the living world we know today. Well worth watching!

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    2. Colin, I think the lack of a ‘reply’ option is down to the fact that we were in a conversation. At least that is how it looks from here; come back to me if you think I am wrong.
      Alex, my son, who is an Advanced Air Line pilot by profession, said that because he was on nights during the NATS incident they were not badly affected. My view is that the systems that NATS are responsible for are all part of the fact that air travel is incredibly safe, especially flights in the international airways systems. Even in uncontrolled airspace private aircraft are pretty safe.

      Re the weather; there is no question that this has been a hotter, drier year than previous years. But where we live even in all summers, some are hotter; some are cooler, grass and forest fires are normal. Luckily we are heading for rain in the next few days, and that is also normal; September is moderately rainy. The challenge is sorting out the truth and the facts from a communication industry that at times puts circulation ahead of accurate reporting. This is one of the reasons I savour the weekly edition of The Economist that comes here.

      That is a most interesting video that I have just watched. The younger generation would appear to take climate change, and all that flows from that, much more seriously than I had previously thought. I still propose that the next 25 years are going to be key; key in so many critically important aspects of the future.

      I went across to the VHEMT website and liked what I saw and may suggest that Jean and I sign up. Give it some thought over the next few days.

      I heard about the series on BBC2 presented by Chris Packham. Unfortunately we are unable to watch programs shown by the Beeb because of the UK Licensing laws. Shame!

      Anyway, thanks for your comprehensive reply and, as usual, I would welcome your further thoughts.

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