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Space exploration: Where do we go from here?

dxmnkd316 said:
The JWST is exceeding it's predicted capabilities so much, we think we might be able to detect clouds on an exoplanet

https://twitter.com/newscientist/sta...3AW_pHj6geT8Gg

https://www.newscientist.com/article...box=1662041533
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The first telescope was constructed in 1608, one year after Jamestown was founded. Assuming we educate the Right out of existence so it doesn't destroy all life in its cowardly, vicious superstition, imagine 2436. That is when I would like my next reincarnation, please.
 
Kepler said:
The first telescope was constructed in 1608, one year after Jamestown was founded. Assuming we educate the Right out of existence so it doesn't destroy all life in its cowardly, vicious superstition, imagine 2436. That is when I would like my next reincarnation, please.
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Data, pull up the weather on Risa.
 
JWST direct imaging of a planet (not inferred):

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385 light years away. That's 2,263,000,000,000,000 miles.
 
MichVandal said:
Except that for JWST, direct imaging IS infrared. Unless I'm reading this wrong, the shortest wavelength JWST is not visible to humans.

None the less, that's berkleing cool. Oh, this isn't that forum- that's fucking cool.
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He said “not inferred,” not “not infrared.” Directly sensing infrared radiation is still direct.
 
LynahFan said:
He said “not inferred,” not “not infrared.” Directly sensing infrared radiation is still direct.
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I'm an engineer- english is not my specialty.

Still a great time to be an astronomer. And an astrophysicist.

The data that JWST takes with each image is enough to fill probably hundreds of PhD thesis. Just use all of the data (which is always being taken) to look at something obscure in the image.
 
I thought we weren't supposed to do this because it just turned one impact into a hundred?

My favorite asteroid defense is fly something next to the incoming asteroid. The gravitational attraction is enough to pull the asteroid off an impact trajectory. That is finesse.
 
Kepler said:
Lovely, thank you!

Now vote better.
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Glad you liked it. When I saw it live, I was profoundly stirred.

As to the latter....
We're in different states with different needs. Where I live it won't matter what my vote is, the Ds will win no matter how incompetent they are (and if you lived in Montgomery County you would know the truth of that statement).
 
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