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The New Hubble Telescope
Posted on 7/17/22 at 10:15 pm
Posted on 7/17/22 at 10:15 pm
For some of you astronomers out there. What do we hope to learn from these new high quality photos? I’m trying to figure out what exactly we hope to find.
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Posted on 7/17/22 at 10:17 pm to dovehunter
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I’m trying to figure out what exactly we hope to find.
Uranus
Posted on 7/17/22 at 10:18 pm to dovehunter
This is not helping my suspicion that these threads are by edgy, attention-seeking, cynical nay-sayers to call the telescope by the wrong name and to ask a question that can easily be Googled and acting like no one can provide an answer, but here’s a summary from Wikipedia:
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The James Webb Space Telescope has four key goals: to search for light from the first stars and galaxies that formed in the universe after the Big Bang to study galaxy formation and evolution to understand star formation and planet formation to study planetary systems and the origins of life[165]
Posted on 7/17/22 at 10:20 pm to dovehunter
quote:Proving flat earth. Where is Gaggle?
The New Hubble Telescope
For some of you astronomers out there. What do we hope to learn from these new high quality photos? I’m trying to figure out what exactly we hope to find.
Posted on 7/17/22 at 10:21 pm to dovehunter
Posted on 7/17/22 at 10:22 pm to dovehunter
I think the boys were expecting pics, hence the downvotes lol. Never change guys
Posted on 7/17/22 at 10:23 pm to dovehunter
Posted on 7/17/22 at 10:31 pm to dovehunter
A crusade AGAINST God
Posted on 7/17/22 at 10:34 pm to dovehunter
Hubble Telescope has a look back time of 13.4 billion years with the ultra deep field picture it took (stayed fixed on one particular spot for like a month I believe).
With the James Webb Space Telescope we expect to possibly see up to 13.55 billion years for galaxies and stars. So it puts the observable universe closer to the Big Bang.
This is because of the red shift of the light waves due to the universe expanding away from us. The light waves turn redder and redder the more they are stretched out due to the Doppler Effect and the JWST is designed to pick up infrared waves (which is why it’s coated in gold and has that enormous heat shield) so can see the red stretched out light waves that Hubble wouldn’t be able to pick up.
It can also see through dust clouds and things like that revealing objects that otherwise would have been hidden to us.
With the James Webb Space Telescope we expect to possibly see up to 13.55 billion years for galaxies and stars. So it puts the observable universe closer to the Big Bang.
This is because of the red shift of the light waves due to the universe expanding away from us. The light waves turn redder and redder the more they are stretched out due to the Doppler Effect and the JWST is designed to pick up infrared waves (which is why it’s coated in gold and has that enormous heat shield) so can see the red stretched out light waves that Hubble wouldn’t be able to pick up.
It can also see through dust clouds and things like that revealing objects that otherwise would have been hidden to us.
Posted on 7/17/22 at 10:36 pm to DavidTheGnome
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This is because of the red shift of the light waves due to the universe expanding away from us. The light waves turn redder and redder the more they are stretched out due to the Doppler Effect and the JWST is designed to pick up infrared waves (which is why it’s coated in gold and has that enormous heat shield) so can see the red stretched out light waves that Hubble wouldn’t be able to pick up.
What practical application does this information potentially contain?
Posted on 7/17/22 at 10:37 pm to hubertcumberdale
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What practical application does this information potentially contain?
I’m not really sure what you’re asking, why study things?
Posted on 7/17/22 at 10:38 pm to dovehunter
For starters, it is the Spud Webb Space Telescope, not the Hubble.
Posted on 7/17/22 at 10:39 pm to UndercoverBryologist
Seems most folks are calling it the new or latest version of Hubble. These goals seem mighty high. The pictures are spectacular as were the Hubble pics. I was hoping someone could advance a practical goal. Maybe I just don’t get a practical benefit of this.
Can someone express something we have used from the initial pictures years ago?
Can someone express something we have used from the initial pictures years ago?
Posted on 7/17/22 at 10:39 pm to DavidTheGnome
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I’m not really sure what you’re asking, why study things?
I’m asking what is the point of studying these wavelengths that were previously undetected by Hubble, such as those on the infrared spectrum
Posted on 7/17/22 at 10:40 pm to DavidTheGnome
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I’m not really sure what you’re asking, why study things?
You’re dealing with Philistinism. Next to Luddism, they form the bedrock principles of anti-intellectualism.
Posted on 7/17/22 at 10:42 pm to UndercoverBryologist
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You’re dealing with Philistinism. Next to Luddism, they form the bedrock principles of anti-intellectualism.
I just don’t think people are justifying the cost of JWST over what we had in place (Hubble)
Posted on 7/17/22 at 10:44 pm to dovehunter
I mean it helped to determine the age of the universe and the rate that it’s expanding, and that every (or almost every) universe has a giant black hole at its center. Whenever the topic of humans in space comes up one of the arguments that people inevitably bring up is astronauts are inspirational to kids, certainly the same can be said for images the Hubble sent back.
And humanity ultimately is better off for the knowledge gained from it is the best answer.
And humanity ultimately is better off for the knowledge gained from it is the best answer.
Posted on 7/17/22 at 10:44 pm to hubertcumberdale
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m asking what is the point of studying these wavelengths that were previously undetected by Hubble, such as those on the infrared spectrum
At its most basics, by being able to detect galaxies that are extremely red-shifted, we see the universe as it appeared just a few million years after the Big Bang. Knowing the early state of the universe gives us a better understanding of the cosmological model built upon General Relativity.
Theoretically, we could see where the model starts to break down...something we know will happen as it gets closer and closer to 13.7 billion years ago...and we should be able to understand the first rudiments of what we’ll need to do in order to update our model beyond the limits of General Relativity.
Posted on 7/17/22 at 10:46 pm to hubertcumberdale
quote:It's the only way to see galaxies that are further away.
I’m asking what is the point of studying these wavelengths that were previously undetected by Hubble, such as those on the infrared spectrum
Posted on 7/17/22 at 10:46 pm to dovehunter
its a conspiracy. Hubbell Telescope; Webb telescope
Webb Hubble. Consigliere to Bill and Hillary Clinton
who got the contracts to build the telescope?
it is so clear...
Webb Hubble. Consigliere to Bill and Hillary Clinton
who got the contracts to build the telescope?
it is so clear...
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