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Anonymous Thu Oct 31 01:11:29 2013 No.6125928 [Reply] [Original]

I can't think about the James Webb space telescope for too long without getting really excited then very stressed out and needing to sit in a corner for a while.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 31 01:22:58 2013 No.6125942 It will be a very powerful tool for astronomy but it is not the be all and end all of astronomy equipment. Be aware there is an awful lot of hype about it. There is a mountain of popular articles about it which are exaggerated at best.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 31 01:26:27 2013 No.6125948 >>6125928 Just 4 more years

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 31 01:51:28 2013 No.6125974 Will it be able to image other planets that are far away?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 31 02:06:58 2013 No.6125991 >>6125974 >Will it be able to image other planets that are far away? I'm wondering this too. It's going to be able to see exo-planets? Can we see Pluto better?

Anonymous Thu Oct 31 02:29:28 2013 No.6126005

>>6125974
>>6125991
If you mean exoplanets yes, it will have improved contrast to many instruments today. It will not resolve them in any detail, they will be points of light.
We can see exoplanets today, it will not resolve any and contrary to what some have claimed it will not see earth like planets. It may help characterise some but not direct detection.

It has worse resolution that Hubble so it won't improve images of Pluto.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 31 02:41:57 2013 No.6126019 >2011 >RIP in peace Terrestrial Planet Finder

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 31 03:19:57 2013 No.6126053 Looking forward to seeing deeper into the universe.

>>	Andarra !GKLRTnndHU Fri Nov 1 01:54:22 2013 No.6127968 >>6126005 How does a 6.5m diameter telescope have a worse resolution than a 2.4m telescope? What the fuck.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 1 02:24:40 2013 No.6127995 >>6127968 The 2.4m telescope was made in Taiwan. The 6.5m was made in America.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 1 02:56:16 2013 No.6128012 >>6127968 It doesn't hubble has 8 x 0.64 megapixels and James Webb has 33 megapixels of course james webb operates more in the infrared

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 1 04:10:16 2013 No.6128062 File: 41 KB, 389x215, advanced-technology-large-aperture-space-telescope-2025-2030-2035[1].gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] JWST in 2018 then ATLAST in 2025~

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 1 04:33:15 2013 No.6128077 >>6125991 You'll get better images of Pluto when New Horizons gets out there in 2015.

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