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I rather prefer the wide shot that the featured image was cropped from: https://stsci-opo.org/STScI-01HHFQ09W5PKSA6EBKJMW51R5M.png https://stsci-opo.org/STScI-0
by eutropia 3y ago
I rather prefer the wide shot that the featured image was cropped from: https://stsci-opo.org/STScI-01HHFQ09W5PKSA6EBKJMW51R5M.png https://stsci-opo.org/STScI-01HHFQ09W5PKSA6EBKJMW51R5M.png
Image Description from Nasa site:
> This image of Uranus from NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows the planet and its rings in new clarity. The planet’s seasonal north polar cap gleams in a bright white, and Webb’s exquisite sensitivity resolves Uranus’ dim inner and outer rings, including the Zeta ring—the extremely faint and diffuse ring closest to the planet.
> This Webb image also shows 14 of the planet’s 27 moons: Oberon, Titania, Umbriel, Juliet, Perdita, Rosalind, Puck, Belinda, Desdemona, Cressida, Ariel, Miranda, Bianca, and Portia.
> One day on Uranus is about 17 hours, so the planet’s rotation is relatively quick. This makes it supremely difficult for observatories with a sharp eye like Webb to capture one simple image of the entire planet – storms and other atmospheric features, and the planet’s moons, move visibly within minutes. This image combines several longer and shorter exposures of this dynamic system to correct for those slight changes throughout the observing time.
> Webb’s extreme sensitivity also picks up a smattering of background galaxies—most appear as orange smudges, and there are two larger, fuzzy white galaxies to the right of the planet in this field of view.
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- leipie 3y agoI just love almost all the dots, photobombing, are detailed galaxies instead of just stars
- bmurphy1976 3y agoIt is amazing. I really wish I could see that level of detail with my own eyes. Queue Battlestar Galactica rant (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPnx3zO3SDc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPnx3zO3SDc).
- xeromal 3y agoIf you find yourself out in the Mojave desert camping in a new moon, you'll swear you can see stuff like this. It's almost unbelievable.
- riversflow 3y ago> I really wish I could see that level of detail with my own eyes. Straying off topic, but be careful what you wish for. I have great eyesight, and have developed my ability to see/notice details considerably throughout my life. (Which btw is super under rated, “seeing” is about much more than just light being focused in your retinas, its incredible to me how things that used to look really complicated or looked a complete mess when I was a teenager are now just a bunch of components and as a result easy to see.) My experience is that I notice how imperfect everything is, constantly. I go to someones place they lived in for years and notice all kinds of things they never picked up on, mismatched moulding or paint or texture, wood grain not matching in furniture, light limescale on porcelain, heat marks, cammed out fasteners, fixtures that are not square, plumb and flush, bubbling peeling paint. I could go on and on. Being discerning is kind of a bummer if you can’t put it to good use.
- bmurphy1976 3y agoI get that. I've done a lot of digital video work for going on 3 decades now. I notice every little flaw and inconsistency. Every video looks like a Godzilla movie to me if I look close enough. I've had to train myself to let it go and just enjoy the artistry in it all. That works most of the time.
- WXLCKNO 3y agoThat is magnificent. Thanks for sharing.
- jcims 3y agoI'm sure it's a challenge at some level but I like seeing the JWST 'fingerprint' on images.
- TaylorAlexander 3y agoYeah. I was so amused to see “High resolution” in the (editorialized) title when the featured image is 566x409 pixels lmao. But that wide shot is gorgeous! I really think HN should remove “high resolution” from the title of this post because it’s editorialized and false, but it’s not a big deal.