First Official Image Webb Space Telescope Live

It is amazing what they are able to generate, err, capture in a picture. We can't figure how to go back to the moon (lost the blueprints) but we can come up with these great pictures that no one will ever be able to prove if they are legit. Since there are artifacts (that shouldn't be there) discovered on Mars and quickly explained away, how long before someone "stumbles" upon artifacts in these pics that shouldn't be there either and get the same treatment?

a reply to: wildespace

Amazing... When NASA broke the original deep space picture, they showed a small square with it and it was extremely disappointing. Being able to zoom in and look at everything they failed to explain, it becomes magnificent. Makes me wonder how fast we could get to these if we had the technology for light speed or warp speed (if that's faster). Zooming in, I wonder if we're looking at any black holes and just can't see them.

originally posted by: devilsadvocatetoday
It is amazing what they are able to generate, err, capture in a picture. We can't figure how to go back to the moon (lost the blueprints) but we can come up with these great pictures that no one will ever be able to prove if they are legit. Since there are artifacts (that shouldn't be there) discovered on Mars and quickly explained away, how long before someone "stumbles" upon artifacts in these pics that shouldn't be there either and get the same treatment?

You can photograph some of those objects with an amateur telescope, just of course not at such good resolution.
www.imgur.com...
www.astrobin.com...
So we know that those objects are there. Is there any particular problem you're seeing with those Webb images?

originally posted by: Bigburgh
Just out of curiosity, this is the clearest image of a black hole that I'm aware.

Are they planning on letting Webb sit long enough to get a clearer image?

That image was only possible to make from huge radio telescopes all over our planet combining their data together. Basically, as if the whole Earth was one gigantic radio telescope. The Webb absolutely cannot produce anything like that.

a reply to: Darkblade71

That was so heavily scripted and with bad acting its hard to take serious.

a reply to: wildespace

Guess I'm left to ask, if we can picture those things from Earth, why did we need to spend $$$ so a satellite could take them in space? Unless, like I was saying, what this is capturing can't be captured from Earth and thus we would be unable to prove what it captured.

originally posted by: devilsadvocatetoday
a reply to: wildespace

Guess I'm left to ask, if we can picture those things from Earth, why did we need to spend $$$ so a satellite could take them in space? Unless, like I was saying, what this is capturing can't be captured from Earth and thus we would be unable to prove what it captured.

Firstly, our atmosphere is like a turbulent ocean that distorts the image of space objects, making them blurry. Telescopes in big observatories here on Earth use things like adaptive optics and wave sensors to try to correct for that turbulence and get sharper images, but there's still a limit. Being out in space and away from our atmosphere, a telescope can take very sharp images of space objects.

Secondly, water vapour in our atmosphere blocks a lot of infrared light, so if you wanna capture space objects in infrared, you either have to get to a very high mountain where the air is drier, or again go beyond the atmosphere.

The Webb Telescope is an infrared telescope, so up there in space is the perfect place for it.

originally posted by: WeDemBoyz
the image: www.nasa.gov...

Ive got a noob question here....

Is this an actual image? Or is it data that nasa used to create what the image should look like?

originally posted by: GoShredAK

originally posted by: WeDemBoyz
the image: www.nasa.gov...

Ive got a noob question here....

Is this an actual image? Or is it data that nasa used to create what the image should look like?

Simple answer - this is an actual image.

Complicated answer - any digital image is a bunch of data that has to be processed to create a picture we see. That's how every digital camera works.