What is Webb observing now?
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What is Webb observing now?
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#2This is so very, very cool.
I did hear some horrible news. Seems the funding for the next-gen (or even current maintainence of) Chandra-X ray observatory (space based telescope) won't get approved which is a huge shame.
Maybe politicians could be persuaded by sites like these and greater awareness campaigns to not lose such a worthwhile instrument for science.
And if it does is there an international equivalent maybe via the ESA or another that could make up for it or should the science world suffer because of the lack of US funding?
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#3Zooming out, panning around, and seeing the milky is... jaw dropping in a way. I know it's silly because we've seen SO many photos of the universe, but I still get the goosebumps every time I think about it. And the detail too! You can really zoom in.
I tried to look for the moon, but it looks like it's not possible: https://old.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/rwynmt/could_th...
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#4If I zoom in, I see a reddish mottled pattern. Is that sensor noise, background radiation, or something else?
Similarly, if I zoom out to 30.39 angular degrees, there's a similar-ish green mottled pattern that's very prominent. What's that? It looks like it's got linear features, which might be a stitching artefact of some sort, maybe?
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#5So.... pretty much a game of Star Raiders?
https://ia902205.us.archive.org/15/items/a8b_Star_Raiders_19...
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#6If I zoom in, I see a reddish mottled pattern. Is that sensor noise, background radiation, or something else? Similarly, if I zoom out to 30.39 angular degrees, there's a similar-ish green mottled pattern that's very prominent. What's that? It looks like it's got linear features, which might be a stitching artefact of some sort, maybe?
This was the specific target at the time: https://spacetelescopelive.org/webb?obsId=01HTJT20C0STKNZ01K...
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#7Quite fun. I was thinking it would be awesome to have whatever Webb is currently looking at as my desktop background or a website background or something. Glancing through the FF inspector it doesn't look like there is a single image which represents that, though. It looks like a piece of JS called Aladin is stitching together a bunch of 512x512 images. Anybody know more about this?
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#8This is amazing. Anyone know if they have some kind of API access for the feed?
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#9Quite fun. I was thinking it would be awesome to have whatever Webb is currently looking at as my desktop background or a website background or something. Glancing through the FF inspector it doesn't look like there is a single image which represents that, though. It looks like a piece of JS called Aladin is stitching together a bunch of 512x512 images. Anybody know more about this?
I think most operating systems let you set a web page as your wallpaper... or they used to, at least.
Not sure if there's a way to make this site load full screen by default though. And I don't know if the "desktop browser" can run user-scripts...
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#10This is so very, very cool. I did hear some horrible news. Seems the funding for the next-gen (or even current maintainence of) Chandra-X ray observatory (space based telescope) won't get approved which is a huge shame. Maybe politicians could be persuaded by sites like these and greater awareness campaigns to not lose such a worthwhile instrument for science. And if it does is there an international equivalent maybe…
Politics and religion slowed down our space exploration by many thousands of years.