'Go Webb, go!': Scientists cheer as Nasa's
$10billion James Webb Space Telescope
module detaches from rocket and begins
one million mile journey into space in
bid to break the secrets of Universe's
first moments 13.5bn years ago
Daily Mail (UK),
by
William Cole
&
Ryan Morrison
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
12/25/2021 10:31:28 AM
NASA's revolutionary James Webb Space Telescope has begun its one million mile voyage into solar orbit after successful lift off following decades of planning and delays. Jubilant scientists and engineers shouted 'Go Webb, go!' as the telescope module detached from its rocket and floated off into space far above the earth's surface.(Snip)The telescope is named after the late James E. Webb, an American government official who was the administrator of NASA from 1961 to 1968 and played an integral role in the Apollo program. NASA's decision to name the device after him was a controversial one–he has been accused of homophobia since his passing in 1992
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Namma 12/25/2021 10:43:39 AM (No. 1018394)
What if the probe sees the face of God. Do you think the renowned NASA space intelligence will tell us?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Roscoelewis 12/25/2021 11:16:59 AM (No. 1018424)
Congratulations all. ...a fantastic achievement
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
columba 12/25/2021 11:52:03 AM (No. 1018448)
I have an old book that descries the first moments of the universe.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Strike3 12/25/2021 1:20:33 PM (No. 1018513)
I hope these scientists realize that they will be long gone by the time their toy discovers something previously unknown and sends it back.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DVC 12/25/2021 1:36:34 PM (No. 1018522)
This will be a big deal.
With optical instruments, resolution is inversely proportional to aperture. Aperture is the diameter of the primary light gathering lens or mirror. So, this has a much larger aperture than Hubble. Hubble is a couple inches less than 8 foot aperture, the larges that could be fit into the shuttle bay.
This scope has a mirror that is 21 ft in effective diameter, meaning that it will resolve things almost three times smaller than Hubble could see....or the same size, three times farther.
A personal example. One nice clear night I was observing Jupiter with my person 8 inch mirror scope, and set up beside it was my exceptional quality 3 inch refractor (normal type of scope, no mirrors) . In the big scope I noted the perfectly round, tiny black shadow of one of Jupiter's moons move onto the face of Jupiter. It was amazing to see, at least for an amateur in his back yard. I wanted to see how it looked in the smaller scope. Using the same eyepieces, swapping from one scope to the other, so only the 8" mirror and 3" objective lens was different.
No matter how carefully I fiddled with the focus.....the moon shadow was entirely invisible in the smaller scope in what appeared to be an excellent view of Jupiter. And when I swapped the eyepiece back to the larger instrument....pop, moon shadow, perfectly round, black and clear as a bell.
THAT is what aperture does for you, a perfect demonstration that I happened to "wander into" and learned from. And the ratio of 3" to 8" is fairly similar to the ratio of Hubble to Webb, just a bit under 3X.
This new scope will certainly let us see things that we absolutely could not see with the magnificent, wonderful old Hubble. Looking forward to seeing more of God's glory revealed.
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Sooo, we have a Webb telescope and a Hubble telescope...coincidence? Somewhere beyond the Crab Nebula they might discover the planet Chelsea and her three moons.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
bpl40 12/25/2021 2:10:22 PM (No. 1018553)
No matter how far, deep you go, there will always be more. This ‘thing’ has been designed by its Creator to be unknowable by the intellect.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 12/25/2021 2:13:49 PM (No. 1018558)
Wow. So, after 25 years, and billions of dollars over budget it finally got off the ground.
I await the great discoveries, but people should be in prison for the theft of money that this project enabled.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
mifla 12/26/2021 3:11:35 AM (No. 1018874)
Hope all the designers used the same metric system.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 12/26/2021 4:16:04 AM (No. 1018883)
Starting with a presumption that “billions” of years are involved cancels any notion of discovery! What if…just what if an all powerful God created everything that exists in 6 days around 6,000 years ago? Nothing new has ever been created in original form making original creation complete and perfect! I can have faith in that story…not the billions and billions of years! Not observable or verifiable! The Genesis account is remarkably accurate if read with an open mind to God!
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