re: The New Hubble Telescope

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As I said, I’m in science and hate to be cynical about something like the JWST Bc I honestly don’t know enough about it to have a legit opinion, I just followed it’s progress for years and was bummed by the initial image releases, even though that’s not the point of the JWST to capture optical images.

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I really don’t understand your logic.

On the one hand, you’re questioning how the JWST will improve practical science. Someone gives you a link with some practical improvements related to Hubble technology and you cherry pick one item to laugh at while ignoring the others.

At the same time, you keep saying you’re bummed that the image quality isn’t that much better than Hubble in your opinion, seemingly ignoring the massive difference in exposure time and the improved resolution of the deep field that was published last week. But then you say you understand that the JWST isn’t intended to just be a better Hubble in the optical portion of the spectrum.

So.. if you understand that it’s intended to capture portions of the spectrum that Hubble can’t capture, why are you so hung up over it? And if it were designed to do the same exact thing as Hubble only better, would that somehow lead to more advances in practical science?

It doesn’t seem like you hate to be cynical about it at all TBH. It seems like you’re actively searching for reasons to be cynical about it.