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Monday, July 11
5:30 p.m. – White House briefing to preview imagery from the James Webb Space Telescope
Tuesday, July 12
9:45 a.m. (EDT) – Opening remarks: James Webb Space Telescope's first full-color images and data
10:30 a.m. – First full-color images and data from the James Webb Space Telescope
12:30 p.m. – Media briefing: James Webb Space Telescope's first full-color images and data
3 p.m. – Media interviews: James Webb Space Telescope's first full-color images and data
NASA's Webb Delivers Deepest Infrared Image of Universe Yet
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has produced the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date. Known as Webb's First Deep Field, this image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 is overflowing with detail.
Thousands of galaxies – including the faintest objects ever observed in the infrared – have appeared in Webb's view for the first time. This slice of the vast universe covers a patch of sky approximately the size of a grain of sand held at arm's length by someone on the ground.
More images will be released after 10:30 AM EDT tomorrow, from these targets:
These listed targets below represent the first wave of full-color scientific images and spectra the observatory has gathered, and the official beginning of Webb's general science operations. They were selected by an international committee of representatives from NASA, ESA, CSA, and the Space Telescope Science Institute.
- Carina Nebula: The Carina Nebula is one of the largest and brightest nebulae in the sky, located approximately 7,600 light-years away in the southern constellation Carina. Nebulae are stellar nurseries where stars form. The Carina Nebula is home to many massive stars, several times larger than the Sun.
- WASP-96 b (spectrum): WASP-96 b is a giant planet outside our solar system, composed mainly of gas. The planet, located nearly 1,150 light-years from Earth, orbits its star every 3.4 days. It has about half the mass of Jupiter, and its discovery was announced in 2014.
- Southern Ring Nebula: The Southern Ring, or "Eight-Burst" nebula, is a planetary nebula – an expanding cloud of gas, surrounding a dying star. It is nearly half a light-year in diameter and is located approximately 2,000 light years away from Earth.
- Stephan's Quintet: About 290 million light-years away, Stephan's Quintet is located in the constellation Pegasus. It is notable for being the first compact galaxy group ever discovered in 1877. Four of the five galaxies within the quintet are locked in a cosmic dance of repeated close encounters.
- SMACS 0723: Massive foreground galaxy clusters magnify and distort the light of objects behind them, permitting a deep field view into both the extremely distant and intrinsically faint galaxy populations.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 11 2022, @09:43PM (11 children)
Curious where the Fine Submission got its headline....
There is no mention of Biden in the linked article.
Furthermore, I think it should be self-evident that the James Webb Space Telescope and Joseph Biden have basically NO relationship.
So again, where the Fine Submission get its headline?
Hmmm?
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday July 11 2022, @09:45PM
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/How_to_see_Webb_s_new_images [esa.int]
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(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 11 2022, @09:54PM (3 children)
I guess he, or his staff, hopes that the NASA spacebucks and images from far far away will work to alleviate some of his current here and now, image, problems?
I think there was something in the paper today that 3 out of 5 democrats doesn't even want him to run again for President etc.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 11 2022, @10:45PM
Yah, he's too radical for Democrats. A leftist elitist. The people want someone even more boring who capitulates even easier to
the Nazissorry, gentle moderates such as Margorie Whatever and the former Sex Worker.(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 11 2022, @11:58PM (1 child)
If Trump's approval ratings were in the septic tank, then Biden's approval is buried in the muck at the bottom of the tank. I heard that Jill Biden won't even vote for him again.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 12 2022, @12:11AM
Wow. I heard Jill Biden regularly flies to Maralago to give oral sex to Melania because Donald likes to watch and Jill is a ho for dominant alpha males.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Monday July 11 2022, @11:32PM
Ladies and gentleman, here it is! It would appear that the first image captured by the Webb Space Telescope is... a magnificent full-color white dwarf!
Oh wait no, that's just the cameraman zooming in on the back of presiden Biden's head,
(Score: -1, Troll) by Username on Monday July 11 2022, @11:49PM (1 child)
When you're so desperate for a win that you're still willing to shoehorn your politician into spacecraft named after a man who fired anyone under him on the suspicion of being a queer.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 12 2022, @02:41AM
Tan suit motherfuker!
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday July 12 2022, @02:20PM (2 children)
"""
Remarks by President Biden and Vice President Harris in a Briefing to Preview the First Images from the James Webb Space Telescope
July 11, 2022
• Statements and Releases
South Court Auditorium
Eisenhower Executive Office Building
6:13 P.M. EDT
PRESIDENT BIDEN: [...]I want to thank the team at NASA for once again showing that that’s who we are — that’s who we are as a nation: a nation of possibilities.
And now let’s take a look at the very first image from this miraculous telescope.
(The image is displayed.) (Applause.)
NASA Administrator Nelson, I’m going to turn this over to you. So will you please tell us about what we’re seeing?
"""
Literally, Biden himself revealed the photo to the public, exactly as the headline says. There's a YT of it, if you still don't believe facts when in written form: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0xskTB1hyA
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday July 12 2022, @03:57PM (1 child)
To be fair, I didn't source the headline beyond "White House briefing to preview imagery from the James Webb Space Telescope".
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(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday July 12 2022, @05:19PM
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