First James Webb Telescope Image released

[Phil777]

This is incredible. Love the star shapes.

I want these kind of light stars on my lens got dammit. My Lens doesn't have anything close to this beauty and brilliance. I want a James Webb for Christmas.

Edited July 14, 2022 by Phil777
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[Michael569]

On 13/07/2022 at 10:33 AM, Egodeathrow said:

I love to ignorantly skygaze, And look through my amateur telescope

Exactly! I can gaze at the night sky for 3 hours not even knowing what I'm looking at most of the time with my super lame telescope and my trusted sky navigation app

[Michael569]

On 13/07/2022 at 0:42 AM, Dryas said:

I mean I’m sure it’s amazing but I also feel like I’ve seen many photos like these before lol. Like should we really be spending millions on something like this? Idk

Hope to see some cooler stuff though

It's all about advancing the knowledge of the deepest parts of space.

I mean, eventually, you'll see more cool pictures of planets and their moons (if that what you mean by "cooler stuff") but at this stage, they have already gathered so much information on those, that it will be mostly used to identify stuff in the deepest space. 

Also, bear in mind that the telescope is used mainly by academics for PhD work, thesis, university type of content etc. I was told by Greenwich astronomist that if you want to use Hubble, you have to submit a proposal and then wait 6 months + for your turn (if you get approved) ...so with JW, it might be up to a year and there will be a committee deciding who gets t use the new toy so if they don't like the proposal, they will just reject it. 

But since NASA is publically funded they need to show some nice photos eventually so give them time

[LSD-Rumi]

Anything short of seeing two aliens banging on some alien beach is not worth the investment 

[Eternal Unity]

Wonderful photos! Thanks!