JWST: Looking Beyond The Pretty Pictures



The James Webb Space Telescope isn’t just for finding Pinterest worthy pictures, we’re finding some amazing details in the sometimes blurry background photos.

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37 thoughts on “JWST: Looking Beyond The Pretty Pictures”

  1. I'm always fascinated by the conditions on other planets, and how we know about them because of the spectra from the starlight shone through the atmosphere, and how that only happens because of the quantum nature of light and electrons leading to discrete energy levels.

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  2. Scishow, I often wonder if your editors are snipping out the tiny pauses between sentences to make your videos shorter. I love your channel but some times it's like listening to a 10 minute run-on sentence. I wouldn't mind a slightly longer video with proper pauses… overall though I am a total fan and love all your content. LLAP

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  3. I am a very big fan of Sci Show Space and enjoy most of the episodes and all the presenters. However, one thing bothers me. Why do you continue to say that the JWST is "taking beautiful pictures"? JWST is an infrared telescope. It is not a camera.

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  4. Heres a thought to ponder, if we find exo-planets that are essentially a early version of Earth at over say 1 billion light years – 3 billion light years away, we'll never get there but would it not be a good assumption that they may have life now at this present time we just can't see it yet.

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  5. These deep field views of the universe first with Hubble and now with JWST are just awe inspiring to see so many galaxies in what appears to be at first glance to be just vacant space.

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  6. What if we build a moon base then make a maga massive telescopes on the moon to study the stars mybe even see a plant directly and literally see some oceans.
    But I would love your thoughts on this idea.

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  7. How old are the oldest second generation stars? Does anyone know? I assume that they need to be at least second generation to have planets with the higher elements, and so make life possible.

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