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Is there an easy way to just scroll through the images?

by charxyz 4y ago

Tagbert 4y ago
Try this https://webbtelescope.org/resource-gallery/images https://webbtelescope.org/resource-gallery/images
advantager 4y ago
https://webbtelescope.org/news/first-images/gallery https://webbtelescope.org/news/first-images/gallery
eutropia 4y ago
I kinda love this comment. It highlights the absurd dichotomy between what "experts" see and what "lay people" see when they look at the same thing. Parent just wants to see some cool images from Earth's latest and greatest space telescope, preferably in a convenient way. Astrophysicists from NASA, ESA, et al. are hanging off the data and details from every last photon collected - each one having traveled billions of years from their origin deep in the past of our universe. With every point of light in the images, the instruments on Webb and associated computer analysis here on earth analyze each facet of the spectra, inferring the chemical composition of galaxies we may have never even seen before as a species - calculating how much spacetime expanded in the long and lonely journey of those photons hurtling through our universe for billions of years, path bent by warping gravity fields, colliding and remitting from galactic dust to finally arrive at a superchilled mirror segment more than a million miles from earth. But hey, can we just get a scrollable feed of these in a web-optimized image format? [ edit: I guess it wasn't clear -- I genuinely love the question. I'm not being sarcastic. YES obviously people want to look at the images and get excited from press release - YES obviously scientists are using a different data stream and not the press release site. What's really cool is that the same origin (12.5 hours of observing a tiny spec of sky) can be used for both. And genuinely the absurd dichotomy is funny, and cool. I guess there's so much sneering elitism on HN that it's easy to get lumped into the same boat. ]
- canjobear 4y ago
  This is a press release website. The scientists interested in every individual photon aren’t browsing this site or anything like it to find their data. The entire point of this site is to look cool and generate excitement, so yes, it should be scrollable and web-optimized.
- dylan604 4y ago
  Yeah? And? So? If it's the pretty pictures that gets people interested, then show them the pretty pictures. We all paid for it, so let us see them.
- toombowoombo 4y ago
  Why should these two be mutually exclusive? Even within research projects we wish to find well organised datsets. Asking about scrollable images seems to be a fair question to me, especially in the context of a press release.
exhilaration 4y ago
I hate linking to a non-NASA site but the New York Times makes it really easy to just scroll through: https://nyti.ms/3ALiTQi https://nyti.ms/3ALiTQi
cvoss 4y ago
Would highly recommend spending time gazing at each one in full resolution. The deep field in particular is underwhelming until you look at it as closely as possible. Then it becomes extraordinarily spectacular.
dylan604 4y ago
Give it some time, and NASA will definitely get a gallery where imagery can be viewed in a more friendly browsing experience. These are the astro-imagery equivalent of "hot off the presses". They just haven't had time, nor enough content, to get a full gallery up yet. All of the other platforms have these types of galleries, so just a bit more patience is needed from all of us while the JWST gets to work! (I'm sitting on my hands trying to be patient myself)
icey 4y ago
There's a feed on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/with/52210532302/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/with/5221053...
CorpOverreach 4y ago
NASA's website gives a much easier view of the pictures: https://www.nasa.gov/webbfirstimages https://www.nasa.gov/webbfirstimages
- leephillips 4y ago
  Thank you. The linked website is horrendous.

Is there an easy way to just scroll through the images?

Tagbert 4y ago

Try this https://webbtelescope.org/resource-gallery/images https://webbtelescope.org/resource-gallery/images

advantager 4y ago

https://webbtelescope.org/news/first-images/gallery https://webbtelescope.org/news/first-images/gallery

eutropia 4y ago

I kinda love this comment. It highlights the absurd dichotomy between what "experts" see and what "lay people" see when they look at the same thing. Parent just wants to see some cool images from Earth's latest and greatest space telescope, preferably in a convenient way. Astrophysicists from NASA, ESA, et al. are hanging off the data and details from every last photon collected - each one having traveled billions of years from their origin deep in the past of our universe. With every point of light in the images, the instruments on Webb and associated computer analysis here on earth analyze each facet of the spectra, inferring the chemical composition of galaxies we may have never even seen before as a species - calculating how much spacetime expanded in the long and lonely journey of those photons hurtling through our universe for billions of years, path bent by warping gravity fields, colliding and remitting from galactic dust to finally arrive at a superchilled mirror segment more than a million miles from earth. But hey, can we just get a scrollable feed of these in a web-optimized image format? [ edit: I guess it wasn't clear -- I genuinely love the question. I'm not being sarcastic. YES obviously people want to look at the images and get excited from press release - YES obviously scientists are using a different data stream and not the press release site. What's really cool is that the same origin (12.5 hours of observing a tiny spec of sky) can be used for both. And genuinely the absurd dichotomy is funny, and cool. I guess there's so much sneering elitism on HN that it's easy to get lumped into the same boat. ]

canjobear 4y ago
This is a press release website. The scientists interested in every individual photon aren’t browsing this site or anything like it to find their data. The entire point of this site is to look cool and generate excitement, so yes, it should be scrollable and web-optimized.
dylan604 4y ago
Yeah? And? So? If it's the pretty pictures that gets people interested, then show them the pretty pictures. We all paid for it, so let us see them.
toombowoombo 4y ago
Why should these two be mutually exclusive? Even within research projects we wish to find well organised datsets. Asking about scrollable images seems to be a fair question to me, especially in the context of a press release.

exhilaration 4y ago

I hate linking to a non-NASA site but the New York Times makes it really easy to just scroll through: https://nyti.ms/3ALiTQi https://nyti.ms/3ALiTQi

cvoss 4y ago

Would highly recommend spending time gazing at each one in full resolution. The deep field in particular is underwhelming until you look at it as closely as possible. Then it becomes extraordinarily spectacular.

dylan604 4y ago

Give it some time, and NASA will definitely get a gallery where imagery can be viewed in a more friendly browsing experience. These are the astro-imagery equivalent of "hot off the presses". They just haven't had time, nor enough content, to get a full gallery up yet. All of the other platforms have these types of galleries, so just a bit more patience is needed from all of us while the JWST gets to work! (I'm sitting on my hands trying to be patient myself)

icey 4y ago

There's a feed on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/with/52210532302/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/with/5221053...

CorpOverreach 4y ago

NASA's website gives a much easier view of the pictures: https://www.nasa.gov/webbfirstimages https://www.nasa.gov/webbfirstimages

leephillips 4y ago
Thank you. The linked website is horrendous.