My dad was born on June 1944, He spent his life working in Astronomy. He worked on the Hubble Telescope, Kitt Peak, Mauna Kea and hundreds of projects. He actually designed some of the infrared detectors that were used in the James Webb Telescope. It was among his greatest achiecements. Unfortunately he died on March 16, 2020, before the James Webb was launched. If you wish to verify what I'm saying, his name was Donald N.B. Hall and if you type in his name followed by the word Astronomy it's all there. Rest in Peace Dad.
Wow! Thanks to people like your dad that us dummies get to use all these wonderful technologies. You yourself must also have pretty dope IQ genes. Ever got yourself tested? Also, what do you do for a living? Just curious
I'll start by offering you my sympathies for the loss of your dad. The short story you tell of him is amazing to say the least. It tells how an ordinary man through dedication and hard work was able to add his contribution to several events that changed our civilisation. Inspiring for the youth out there even if they don't know who your dad was, the exploits alone are enough to spark an interest in the field. There's a biography waiting to be written here.
@@Particulator Ordinary men cannot achieve such feats. You have to have both an ultra-high IQ (which is nature's game of dice) and very high levels of conscientiousness (which can be partly genetic and partly your own doing). Watch Dr Jordan Peterson's lectures on the topic for more info.
Back in the early 2000's, I worked on the FGS as a test engineer. One of the things that I don't think gets talked about enough is how there are mechanical focusing mechanisms that move and adjust deep within the system... that have to run at cryogenic temperatures. Think about this -- stuff expands and contracts when it gets hot and cold. The tolerance on these movable parts is so very narrow that it will not move at all when it's at ambient temperature. I remember talking with a mechanical engineer about this, and he was deeply concerned that, after transport, after thermal cycling during travel... after the vibration of launch... what if this focusing mechanism seized up? And there's no way we were going to be able to fix it. And that is just one small part that I was working on... the fact that this thing is working at all, let alone working as well as we could dare to hope (and maybe even better!) is nothing short of amazing. Great video btw.. love the content, Joe!
I agree totally. I think about all the meticulous detail goes into putting something in coldness of space. The precision the instruments have to be, the fact that it gets hit wit debris!! It’s amazing how long voyager has been out in space and the can still communicate with it! I always wanted to be a part of NASA and I feel like this is the first experience where everyone, from many countries can feel like they were a part of something really special. This was our moon landing!
The JWST is an absolute triumph of human engineering. Seriously makes me tear up with happiness and pride for the team of people who made this happen. Bravo
I think it's important to remember that the Hubble deep field image almost didn't happen. An astronomer basically put his career on the line to get the image.
I remember being gobsmacked by Voyager 2's photos of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. To think how far we've come just in my lifetime when it comes to observing the universe around us.
Given how many potential failure points there were to get to this point and how delicate and fraught the whole operation was, the fact that it works at all is incredible. The fact that it works THIS WELL is absolutely mind-boggling.
The calibration tolerances coupled with the thermal expansion and contraction. Hell even the launch vibration but nope. Forget "this well", Its honestly mind blowing that this thing works AT ALL. Go us! Woot Woot!!!
Within our lifetimes we will see the next generation of telescope up there and it will improve on the JWST at least as much. What lucky people we are - even if our world is turning to crap we are gifted this amazing knowledge.
12:33 "Colonoscopy. They did a colonoscopy on the black hole." The late great comedian Robert Schimmel once rhetorically asked why we call the things in space "asteroids" and those other things "hemorrhoids", suggesting that it would probably make more sense the other way around. See what you started here, Joe? 😎
And George Carlin equated rockets as phalsas. We humans have a natural potty humor about us. Seriously, I was privileged to watch Mercury, Gemini and Apollo though their missions and was so excited then a 30-year dry spell came upon US until the Shuttle was finally retired after killing the only astronauts in missions, 14 humans dead. Cassini and a few Mars rovers were cool, but WEB is the new high. Very cool, thanks for the video, Ken
I was a teenager when the first pictures of Jupiter came back from Voyager. Our local newspaper went out of its way to print a color front page because of it. People were in awe. That's what I thought of when you asked when was the last time you remembered people being united in enjoying good news: the Voyager pictures of Jupiter. Later, I was getting my undergrad degrees in physics and astronomy when my professors were saying, "When Hubble launches, we'll be able to blah blah blah." This is part of why I didn't take seriously the people that were moaning about how the Webb launch delays. There are always launch delays, and in the end, the damn thing always launches. Right now, I just want JWST to find a chemical disequilibrium in an exoplanet somewhere that can't be explained by anything but life of some kind. I want to know that there is a form of life somewhere that has nothing to do with humans or Earth.
With 10,000 galaxies in a grain of sand, there is no no no way we are the only game in town. It’s an infinite amount of arrogance to think that…. “Look at how special we are!” JWST: “Hold my beer”
@@Coveskipper Well said. It is simply madness to try and imagine the absolute scale of the Universe. The distances may be too great to overcome and we may be condemned with living out a lonely existence. If you look at things from the perspective of the Universe, some form of robotic sentient life may be the next phase in evolution, no matter the starting point or original composition of its creators. We know for certain that the Universe took at least 13.7 billion years to evolve intelligent enough life that can self-reflect and create. What if we humans (and possibly other intelligent beings) are marching toward an inevitable merge with technology that can withstand the harsh, vastness of space-time, and exist on a timescale that spans thousands of eons with the purpose of saving the Universe from a bitter cold heat-death? *passes blunt*
NGL man the deep field is still the one that blew my mind. Zooming in knowing the tiny red dots are nearly the oldest free light in the universe, just reaching us now. Seriously mind blowing
The day the images came out I downloaded the high res pngs (some are 180MB) and put them on a tv and was zooming in on all the galaxies in the deep field. My 10 year old came in to look at them as he’s very interested in space, especially neutron stars, black holes and the possibilities of aliens. He asked me what all the small dots were and when I told him individual galaxies, some are 13 billion yrs old and it’s a patch of sky the size of a grain of sand at arms length…his jaw dropped and he physically shuddered. Seemed like the right response.
[Actually] It only took 4 hours of ACTUAL exposure (or 4 & a half if you include the "pointing" & "stopping" of the telescope). Then it did a lot of "system checkings" [as part of the global calibration & error_detecting procedures on its systems], before pointing its high_bandwith antenna for fast downlink [it generates a lot of heat, so observations are paused for a while]. Hubble could do observations, processing and data transfer simultaneously (but only "looking" with 1 instrument at a time, Webb can use them in pairs & record at high resolution].
@@tragicanomaly1707 There is a "diminishing returns" problem when you are going to the "edge of the universe". Hubble could NEVER get a picture like the one Webb just did, even if it dedicated an entire year of continuous observation to the same "ultradeep field". -> Besides the wavelength limitations, there is also the "thermal noise" problem (much smaller for Webb thanks to the ACTIVE almost_absolute_zero_kelvin instrumentation) that sets a "laws_of_physics" barrier to accuraccy.
I remember when Hubble took that deepfeild image of our known Universe back in 1995 and people were saying how amazing it looked and to think it only took two weeks to receive it. That was in 1995 now in 2022 JSWT takes its deepfeild shot of galaxies in just a matter of hours instead of two weeks. Incredible how far technology has advanced in almost most 30 years. 😎
@@adolfodef Some big boy rockets are coming which can send big ass mirrors to space at low cost. In just 10 years, we will see SpaceX putting single mirrors in space multiple times its size at a fraction of its cost.
I think everybody needs to keep in mind that Hubble is still a world class instrument and its visible light data is a fantastic supplement to JWST data.
Hubble was like humanity squinting into the darkness to see what was out there. JWST is like opening our eyes. I've always said that the most exciting thing about JWST is it's going to answer questions that we didn't even think to ask.
I literally started work at the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh this Monday, just a day before the release of the images. Some of the people there worked on MIRI and seeing them be so overjoyed and happy about JWST was an extremely wholesome moment. A few of them were justt back from the US where they were comissioning the telescope for the past 3 months and they shared their journey in some wonderful presentations. Truly a great time to be alive indeed.
i was in elementary school during the moon landing.i remember a teacher called mr litefoot wheeling a tv outside his class room so everyone could watch.he said we were going to watch history in the making.i was mesmerized.when my teacher came over to round us up for her class he vehemently told her no.because of him i got to see it happen live.thanks mr litefoot youre the best
A friend of mine worked most of his career at the Canadian Space Agency, running space-environment testing. He spent literally *years* doing testing of the Fine Guidance Sensor for James Webb. For big projects like this, many people will spent a *significant fraction* of their entire careers working on them. I'm so very happy that JWST is up there and doing its thing now!
@@rainblaze. Yes, because it's something magical seeing something that you've been hearing about in development your whole life giving us a glimpse into the next chapter of science. I understand that you're probably still a kid who's insecure with your emotions, but crying is nothing to be ashamed of! (Also, don't like your own comments immediately after posting them, it's weird.)
To all the other 'macho men' who may want to reply and prove how little emotion you have... It's 2022 and you're still scared of tears?! Snowflakes lmao
Hi Joe. Thanks for posting this video, great content and nice precise explanations on everything. I worked on JWST at NG for the last 15 years, mainly on the design of the Sunshield and the engineering of everything that as you put it "could have gone wrong 14 million ways but didn't" for that Sunshield to deploy and tension up, so I am beyond thrilled to be seeing these images and can't wait to see what happens over the next 20 years :) I think you nailed it on the head when you said, "let's take this victory". Finally a positive win for ALL of humanity, getting the entire population to agree on 1 thing is impossible, but I believe Webb can be that miracle. I have high confidence we will find that for sure signal of life on an exoplanet using Webb, and I can't wait for that day!!! Thanks again for sharing your insight on our Observatory through your channel. Great job!
I was 14 when I got my first pair of eyeglasses. Funny thing about your first glasses is you have no idea how bad your vision is. I remember walking outside and being absolutely gobsmacked at how stunningly, incredibly crisp and clear everything was. I'll never forget that moment. This gives me those same feels.
it always seems like everyone first reaction to getting glasses is the trees. i too remember finally seeing all the individual leaves when i first put on my glasses as a kid. i also remember in school having to actually pay attention to what the teacher was saying while taking notes instead of just looking at the board bc i couldn’t see anything. and then i got glasses and was like “you mother fuckers could see the teachers writing this whole time?!?”
I feel as though so many people are unaware of just how grand this truly is. Jwst and the incredible dedicated team behind it are such a remarkable milestone for all of humankind.
It isn't grand at all. It's a false Photoshop composite. There is no JWST or Hubble. It's a bunch of overpaid galaxy artists creating this nonsense with composites and bad photoshopping.
The pics are beautiful. But unlike Hubble, JWST doesn't see visible light. Which means they as beautiful as the images are, they aren't actually what we would see if we, or Hubble was looking at it.
This is so goddamn amazing. When I first heard about JWST I thought "Huh, that will be cool in like 10 years." Then I heard about the countless delays. Then there waere the launch delays and I was thinking "So much bad news these days, I'd better get ready to be disappointed." But the launch went off just fine. Then I heard about the issues Hubble had when it first became operational, I thought "Huh, must be at least a year or so before they get JWST fully operational." Then we got the images... And I was like "HOLY SHIT! THIS IS AMAZING!" *THEN* Joe Scott was like "These are just test images." I can't wait to see what we get next! This is such a triumph for literally everyone on Earth who can see these images. They're so immensly beautiful.
Joe, you’re fantastic. Please don’t stop doing you. Having science explained with your voice is truly wonderful. What a cool set of awe inspiring photos. Cheers
I was amazed by Hubble and extremely more amazed by Webb. But considering Webb took 30 years to build, the next space telescope should absolutely blow our minds. And we have only seen test shots from Webb that are far above the shots from Hubble. I am excited to see the images yet to come from Webb. It is incredibly awesome knowing we are seeing images as far back in time to the near beginning. It is all just so incredibly mindboggling and beautiful. I would not have thought that it could get any better than Hubble and just the test shot from Webb has proven me wrong. Hope I am still around to see the images from the space telescope that replaces Webb. But until then, we will have an awesome show from Webb.
This was honestly a highlight of the last like 20 years for me, the only issue is that I haven't got anyone to talk to about this lol. I think people are misunderstanding how awesome this is because like you said these are only test images and we're going to learn so much more in the coming years thanks to the JWST.
I tried to start a discussion at work andddd…crickets. I’m a nurse. I brought up the images on a computer and showed the other nurses, the doctors, the therapists, the janitor. No one was very hyped, and it made me sad. Then a therapist told me today that he went home and learned more, and my faith was restored a little bit.
Joe. You're right! The fact that JWSP can not only do this for 5 years, but now it can do it 4 times longer. THAT IS WILD! European Space Agency deserves So Much credit for their perfect launch. 10 Billion Dollars seemed a bit much for 5 years, but for 20 years! That makes it So worth it
It is amazing the science muscle shown on this. And also, kudos to the Hubble team: I am impressed for the shots it was able to do with the technology available at that time.
Yes indeed. Hubble was ground-breaking basically up until the first image from JWST, and it will still be amazing and scientifically useful until it becomes inoperable.
I remember when the Hubble Space Telescope was first launched there was a problem where it couldn't focus on anything. To correct the issue a new lens was installed basically giving the Telescope a pair of glasses so it could focus.
The 'flares' are called "diffraction spikes" and they're the result of two aspects of JWST combining. First, the hexagonal shape of the tiles, as you said, but second the three struts of the support structure. When they add up, you get the 8 point pattern. In a perfect world, where fuel wouldn't be an issue, if they rotated on axis, those could be 'taken out' by a second look. As is, they're here to stay, unfortunately.
From a research perspective I can see the importance of removing these artifacts, but from a photography perspective they would be much less interesting photos if everything was perfectly round.
The "Let them have this" part made me laugh a little because I was at work for the live stream, and since I work for my parents they had to deal with me excitedly telling them about the images and what they were and literally crying over how overwhelmed with emotion I was. A few times my mom looked a freaked out (not in a bad way, but like she thought i was going to actually burst)
Without getting into details, in 2016 I was feeling really depressed and was thinking of doing the deed, the only thing that kept me going was the wait for Webb and its images and future discoveries, and boy oh boy, am I ever glad I didn't go through with it because these are stupendous.
I'm glad you didn't do the deed. Life can seem like a curse, but small things like this make it feel like the true miraculous gift that it is. Plus more images on the way!
@@zdenek3010 - People lose the ability to outward, their world becomes incredibly tiny and filled with misery. It would be way better to use LSD or MDMA, but as a legal alternative, the Hubble Deep Field helps. Especially if you enthuse about it.
@@paulknight9998 - They used to call MDMA "Penicillin of the soul" in the psychology profession... Crazy that its a Class A drug / class 1 drug. I was once walking around town on MDMA at night, there had been a crash at the traffic signals that day and the road was covered in the little cubes of glass which picked up the red, green and yellow of the traffic lights - it was like a million stars exploding into colour on the inky blackness of the tarmac - it was amazing...
I've been counting the days until JWST's launch since I first read about it in a science book in 2007 when I was 10 years old. I can honestly say it was worth the wait.
Ever since I was a kid watching Star Trek, I wanted to become an Astrophysicist just so I could do Spectrograph readings of far away planets. I always felt it was basically the closest thing we can currently do to “see” what these planets might look and be like without the Warp drive to help us travel to them.
I find this so amazing! To be alive during this time of such discovery almost brings me to tears, but thats what living 70 years will do to you. Makes me feel like a kid thinking, " so much to see, so much to do!" This excites these old bones!
I'm 67 . So, I've witnessed a fair number of 1sts. I still remember seeing Sputnik as a young kid. My metal lunch box with space and space ships on it. John Glenn, 1st moon landing, space shuttles and failures. But, all that human space exploration ended with the space shuttle saga.
I just wonder why all this stuff exists in the first place. The more we learn, the more we realize how little we know. Do we have purpose ? Are we nothing more than a random event ? When I die ... I am a only a blip without meaning ? Or has our universe been created to hold a greater contruct to our existance ? I fear that no one can explain.
I will admit that I lost my patience regarding the JWST's postponed launches, but now that it has launched, just wow, jaw-dropping images. /salute to all who made it possible
Same. Couldn't wait for the launch in 2016, then delay after delay I just kinda forgot about it until everyone started hyping it up again this year. Had cautious optimism until it actually launched, and...WOW. Nothing could've prepared me for what I am seeing
That deep field image is _mindblowing._ All those galaxies, _each_ with countless teeming trillions of stars. What manner of fantastic beasts walk under all those alien suns?
Great episode! I saw the moon landing live in a local news studio (I was 20). Hubble (once it was fixed was deservedly jaw-dropping, but Webb... Along with the composite pictures, we also get spectra of the targets. The only thing missing is the close-up of an alien on a habitable planet waving hello at us. And you're right, this is a moment of good news!
I was watching those ghostly images from another world, in 1969. I saw that "one small step", and for a moment, the whole world saw it as they sat (beside me) in awe. It was a very positive global moment. Nothing since has held so much of our soul up to the Universe. A moment when we promised the Cosmos that we were coming. That we would always be coming.
It’s amazing and fun to see scientists so excited about what the JWST has produced. I’m blown away by the photos and I started to watch all the videos about this phenomenal new telescope and how it’s affected people who are experts. I haven’t seen results like this before. It’s an incredible and exciting time and I look forward to more images. Thanks for keeping us updated on this topic.
As NDT put it, we are eternally grateful for the thousands of engineers who put this puzzle together. It is their countless hours and years of dedication that made this possible. I've literally waited my whole life for this and I couldnt be happier that it is a smashing success!
Had a coworker say, "I don't get it, its just a bunch of stars". After putting my broken brain back together, my inner, "um, actually ☝️🤓..." Came bursting out
Hubble Ultra Deep Field already blew me away for the sheer amount of galaxies and unfathomable scope and size, Webb’s First Deep Field now takes it to a new level with this unreal amount of detail and gravitational lensing. The warping of galaxies in such clarity is just awesome to behold.
This amazingly advanced tool was the work and brilliance of scientists and engineers from 19 different countries! The US, Canada and the 17 countries of the ESA! All contributing their part to a system as important as Galileo's first handmade telescope.
Somehow in the euphoria I feel some sadness that its just that many countries can take part actively while so many others which enabled it from the mining of the raw materials, to the transportation, to the brutal economics and history of civilisations, intellectual and social, feel left out. I don't mean what it might seem, sorry. Heck, I am in one of those countries, but I do feel proud too as we humans reach so beyond ourselves like no other creatures can, that we know off. Hubble's first good images feel just like yesterday. As I reach the milestone of reaching 60 today, I know it will continue to be just a dream that one day, at least the majority of us, can hold a product of this and feel I am directly a part of it too. It may just never happen even if I live another thousand years, sadly. The leaps that we have made just in that 60 years, just in looking out to outer space, made me feel so exceptional to be in this generation, after thousands of generations. So, Congratulations and Thank You to all those who made this happen, so many no longer with us, some/many in sad ways, to even imagine it. Just hoping further that what we are about to discover will not lead to us to being even more divided than we already are.
@@artdonovandesign As I slowly age, I realise that its just thoughts that still move me. I am basically done with what I can do. Not a super traveller as some, but I have been to the far east, to the far west and to the far south of the globe (exc antartica ie). Hurts deep to remember all the good people I talked to everywhere, where everybody could have been family, and nobody I will ever talk to again (and some may even sneer at me now considering global events). And yet we continue to be greedy just for our own lineage when just in the past 60 years we could have unshackle ourselves from history into a new path. Likely we won't. I have been in deception in this most fruitful period. Hell, we could have a war on the moon or Mars in the coming decades!! Be well to you too, Sir.
Love your channel! After I enjoy your videos I send them to my mom (73yo) and my nephew (5yo) and they both love them. When the age range of your audience is 5 to 73, you know you're doing something right. Keep it up! You make the internet a truly better place :D
James T.Kirk: "Spock, i need a sensor sweep of the atmosphere of that planet." Spock: "Sorry Captain, the distance is 5 light years. Too far for this type of analisys." James T.Kirk:"Mr.Spock, how the hell did you manage to become a science officer...... you are fired. Hundreds of years ago JWST made the same analisys, his first one, on a planet 640 light years from Earth." Reality beats science fiction
Perhaps Kirk was expecting to get current info on the planet's atmosphere vs how it was 5 years ago. We see the deep field as points within it were 640 years ago. Some closer and more recent, others farther and longer ago. Being able to "sense" what is going on there now, would require some subspace or warp technology outside our current level of technology.
I saw meme the other day, that said Star Trek has been around for 57 years and the Confederacy was only around for three. So we should be building statues to Spock, and naming schools after James T Kirk. JWST needs a statue.
@@mediaworldwide9848 it literally isn't possible to get current info of the planet anyways though, whatever science fiction it is, information can't travel that fast
The speed difference is what really shocked me when I read it (Aside from the amazing images obviously). It's crazy how much more data we can get out of it just because of that. Like, 2 weeks to less than 12 hours? And the results are so much better? I knew it would be better than Hubble but i didn't realize how much of a technology gap it would be.
Great post Joe. I didn't have the level of enthusiasm for what the NASA Webb team pulled off until watching today. Thank you for raising my level of appreciation and "awe" for the program.
The feels were huge for me, and hugely nostalgic for the reasons you mentioned; it was unequivocal joy and inspiration the likes I can't recall feeling since I was a kid (decades ago). Perhaps slivers of it I remember of Pluto closeups by New Horizons, or when Perseverance landed on Mars. But that first image - every time I look at it, chills the likes of which I can't really remember. And gosh is it a nice change of pace.
2:39 if you look closely at the two curved aberrations on the right hand side caused by gravitational lensing you can see that they are actually mirror images of each other, Just like in an optical lens the image is flipped. This must mean that the light isn't bent around an object due to gravity but that the gravitational effect forms a bubble of increased density similar to a water bubble floating in the space station and we are observing the light passing directly through the dense gravitational bubble. Interesting to see this affect from relative time due to gravity...
You know, I've been following Webb and excited about all of this for a while, now, but I guess I wasn't as hyped as I should be until watching this video. This really is a BIG, potentially world changing event, a net win for all of humanity, and in total defiance of the odds. Thanks for helping me properly appreciate the scope of all this, Joe.
@@adamfirst9321 Astronomy is one of the main science branches that help scientists from other areas like physics and mathemathics to make new discoveries with all the new evidence that increase our knowledge of the universe.
@@adamfirst9321 There have been a lot of technologies developed by the space exploration, like the GPS, thermal blankets, freeze dried food, cochlear implants, memory foam and a lot of other materials. Just check this Wikipedia article about all the comercial technologies created by NASA: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spinoff_technologies
@@adamfirst9321 the fact you have a video to watch is reason enough. No space program no internet. Simple basic knowledge that is taught to children...
I think the last time we had "similar" news is when Hubble became properly operational. I still remember the awe of its ground breaking pictures and discoveries. Here's to JWST carry on and surpass its legacy!
I never thought about a price per image... The proposed high speed rail link between Baltimore and DC supposed to cost something like $6, 500 per inch, though, so it's still probably a better deal than that.
The project was quoted at $500 million and at the end it cost 20 times much more. I like NASA and its amazing telescopes but please don’t be blind: Japanese and European teams and NASA would have delivered the same telescopes for 5% less than NASA. NASA does great jobs to the American people and also for the rest of the world but NASA ALSO wastes a lot.
Can you imagine trying to explain these images of all those galaxies to Galileo? He'd probably comprehend it but he'd probably have trouble believing it. Crazy how far we have come in such a relatively short space of time.
Another HUGE difference between Web and Hubble, aside the quality upgrade (and the many new instruments) is that Web needs 5-20x less time (depending on what you're recording) than Hubble needed. Not only does it see more, it sees it faster. So they could do extra long exposures of those spots on a later date and get even more detail and information out of it.
@@enlightendbel its not that they are gonna do a exposure of 56 day, its the allotted time for a group of scientist, but we are defenitly going to see a longer exposure from JWST
I so agree with you we needed this. It is a huge victory during a time when we needed something good. Thank you to all the people who built this amazing telescope and thank you Scott your video.
Excellent reporting. "Cool space shiz" sums it up for me, fo' sho'. I wasn't too geeked about it before your presentation, but I'm just floored at how impressive these images are. Great job! All good wishes.
Things people do usually go right. Think about how amazing it is that we can eat mangoes in January or that water comes out of faucets. 99.9% of life goes well but our brains are always seeking novelty and, unfortunately, novelty for humans usually means that things have gone worse than expected. So those are the things we notice and the things that media reports on.
I’ve dealt with some naysayers or even this achievement! How we should have spent time and resources on healthcare or social safety nets or engineering more bountiful forms of crops or developing breakthroughs on 3D printing organs because so many people die every day on waitlists. “They’re here dying in the dirt while you’re staring at stars. It has no direct impact on us. You know what does? Death! By the thousands!” I got a right earful. 😳
The Voyager 2 launched 8 days after my 6th birthday. I can remember when the photos of Jupiter and Saturn were first shown to the public. They're what made me fall in love with astronomy and the universe. This is like an early birthday present. We are so lucky to be alive at this point in time. BTW, didn't notice your air conditioner because I can barely hear anything over my air conditioner 😄
The really cool part of this all for me is that I recently got my BS in physics and love astronomy. I'm hoping to be accepted for my PhD candidacy in Astrophysics. I've learned all of these cool things about space and astronomy, but now I can actually see it. I did my own analysis of this picture before hearing anything about it from anywhere else, and I came up with the same conclusions that I'm hearing now. So its really cool to see your work paying off and your ability to discover and analyze this stuff on your own.
I was awake for 48 hours for the moon landing; an event I had been waiting for since early childhood. I inherited a set of early 20th century encyclopedias which contained one beautiful colored front plate showing how many YEARS it would take various models of early airplanes to fly to the moon.
@@realityshotgun - Not only that, but if you have a fitness watch, you have as much computing power as NASA used at Mission Control to guide the whole thing. Oh, and I loathed the sight and sound of Jules Bergman trying to predict doom, beating the catastrophe drum, during the return to Earth.
@@thefellowheirs - consider SETI - a network of radio telescopes around the world ‘listening’ for radio signals from space. They were designed to pick up patterns of frequencies from who knows how many light years away, possibly from other galaxies. The moon is only a few hundred thousand MILES away. They may have done a lot of it with slide rules, but they got the job done. And if you think that’s impossible, consider the Antikythera device, a mechanical brass thingy (?) that was found in a sunken Greek ship, made somewhere around 2300 years ago, that calculated the movement of the visible planets, sun and moon, and fixing the dates of lunar and solar eclipses. That’s not too shabby.
@@judithgockel1001 yo thank you for that. Love you used evidence for this. It's a big claim to say they faked it. But it's healthy to question things. And if you have truth. You'll be able to provide evidence just like that. I will be diving head first into those topics you mentioned! Thank you!
The JWST is incredible but Hubble is decades old and imagine how old the design is so fair play to Hubble people because it still looks pretty fantastic. PEACE and Love to everyone
I don't think anyone is crapping on Hubble. Hubble did an amazing job. I think without Hubble, JWST wouldn't exist. JWST is continuing the mission Hubble pioneered and doing so much more besides.
there's no comparison to be made when discussing a later technology built on the back of an earlier one. there would be no such thing as a silicon chip without vacuum tubes prior
I wasn't suggesting that anyone was insulting the Hubble , I was just amazed at what we can achieve when everyone works together for the good of humanity. Who knows what marvellous advances this could bring to us all in the future ?. As for Mr neither of them exist well they have certainly fooled the smartest people on the planet !!! I hope everyone has a great day & try keep cool in the very warm weather , don't forget about the animals in the heat . PEACE and LOVE to everyone.
One cool thing about the new deep field, from what I've heard, is that it represents 12 hours of exposure. Hubble took much longer to collect the data it shows.
These images have gotten me so incredibly excited. They are so incredible! Congratulations everyone that worked on this telescope and interpret the discoveries.
Imagine how quickly we could advance as a society if the budget for the US wasn’t essentially almost entirely shoved towards military. I heard the military has a budget of $600B, whereas NASA has a puny $1B in comparison. Wtaf
To be fair, if we didn't defend ourselves there would be nobody left to research, and a TON of modern consumer technology first is developed for military use then brought down to consumer levels. That being said, I don't entirely disagree.
Joe, you have provided an outstanding video for your viewers. The initial images are profoundly humbling when one thinks of our position in the cosmos. The countless galaxies seem to suggest, in my opinion, that life must be out there because of the sheer number of planets orbiting the countless suns in EACH galaxy. And if you assume for a moment that there are "intelligent beings" on those far away, still-surviving planets in those galaxies, then from their perspective, we don't yet exist! Incredible!
I've been waiting for these images ever since the James Webb Telescope was announced. And as happy as I am to live in times like these, I am sad that I will probably not see the arrival of an unmanned spacecraft at alpha centauri.
@@TheSearchForTruth88 sorry, stupid me. And I really thought that alpha centauri a and alpha centauri b and proxima centauri was a real thing. But thanks for teaching me this....🤗
I think what should be really emphasized when comparing the Hubble pictures to JWST’s is the time each took to take these photos. While the deep field that JWST took is certainly better than Hubble’s, it took JWST 12.5 hours to take that photo compared to 22 days for Hubble.
It took 22 days because the image was a combination of many photos combined. Hubble travels around the Earth so can't photograph any object for very long, unlike JWST that is at a fixed point in space well away from the Earth or any other obstruction.
You mentioned the moon landing, but the last comparable astronomy advance for me was the Voyager 2 fly-by of Neptune, back in 1989 (when I was 8). _Scientific American_ had an entire issue devoted to it, which I utterly devoured. I mean, there have been lots of advances between then and now that are amazing on an intellectual level (*edit:* e.g. the first confirmed exoplanet wasn't until 1992), but nothing quite so visceral.
Great video Joe! One of the things that blew my mind with this was that it only took hours to take the detailed images they released rather than the days or weeks that Hubble took! Just imagine what they are going to produce when they eventually point JWST at something for a several weeks.
Crazy fact: Hard Drive on JWST = 68 Gb. Granted it's a radioactive hardened ssd, but yep. Reason #1: it was spec'ed in 2005. It works, but at 10 bill, I would have asked for a capacity increase.
Don’t worry.. the Computer Generated Images are done on Earth…. ask yourself how the distant galaxies are blown up to such detail.. but Stars in our own galaxy are still only specks right next to them!!!
@@adamfirst9321 You clearly don't realize how big space is. Of course the stars in our galaxy will be small. Look at our Sun with your own eyes. It's not big at all yet it's almost in your backyard (in astronomical terms). Now look at the next closest star. It's barely visible in comparison to our Sun. It's called Proxima Centauri and it's 268770 times further that the distance from the Earth to the Sun. Now, the stars which are captured in front of those super far galaxies aren't close to us at all. They are light years away, some even thousands light years away. They will be extremely small and look like nothing next to the whole galaxies which are much older and bigger than the Milky Way.
That shouldn't really matter. Its pictures only need to be there for the amount of time it takes to transmit them to Earth. If Webb had needed more data storage it would have gotten more data storage.
It’s hard to wrap my head around that all these images came from our reality, from space, that they’re real, and not just pictures from a poster or movie or something Absolutely mind blowing that these are real images, real stars, real galaxies…. Just still mind blowing
It's interesting to think about how much of what we're seeing in these images doesn't actually exist anymore. We're seeing billions of years old "ghosts".
One of the technology companies in my relatively small town made the mirrors for both the Hubble and the Webb. We are very proud of our contribution to science. So both of these telescope have a special place in my heart. You did good Cullman! 👍
My dad was born on June 1944, He spent his life working in Astronomy. He worked on the Hubble Telescope, Kitt Peak, Mauna Kea and hundreds of projects. He actually designed some of the infrared detectors that were used in the James Webb Telescope. It was among his greatest achiecements. Unfortunately he died on March 16, 2020, before the James Webb was launched. If you wish to verify what I'm saying, his name was Donald N.B. Hall and if you type in his name followed by the word Astronomy it's all there. Rest in Peace Dad.
Wow! Thanks to people like your dad that us dummies get to use all these wonderful technologies. You yourself must also have pretty dope IQ genes. Ever got yourself tested? Also, what do you do for a living? Just curious
I'll start by offering you my sympathies for the loss of your dad. The short story you tell of him is amazing to say the least. It tells how an ordinary man through dedication and hard work was able to add his contribution to several events that changed our civilisation. Inspiring for the youth out there even if they don't know who your dad was, the exploits alone are enough to spark an interest in the field. There's a biography waiting to be written here.
@@Particulator Ordinary men cannot achieve such feats. You have to have both an ultra-high IQ (which is nature's game of dice) and very high levels of conscientiousness (which can be partly genetic and partly your own doing). Watch Dr Jordan Peterson's lectures on the topic for more info.
Thank you for your dad’s contribution to the whole world!
Your dad will have a legacy that your family will cherish in perpetuity.
Thank you for sharing this.
Back in the early 2000's, I worked on the FGS as a test engineer. One of the things that I don't think gets talked about enough is how there are mechanical focusing mechanisms that move and adjust deep within the system... that have to run at cryogenic temperatures. Think about this -- stuff expands and contracts when it gets hot and cold. The tolerance on these movable parts is so very narrow that it will not move at all when it's at ambient temperature. I remember talking with a mechanical engineer about this, and he was deeply concerned that, after transport, after thermal cycling during travel... after the vibration of launch... what if this focusing mechanism seized up? And there's no way we were going to be able to fix it.
And that is just one small part that I was working on... the fact that this thing is working at all, let alone working as well as we could dare to hope (and maybe even better!) is nothing short of amazing.
Great video btw.. love the content, Joe!
Thank you so much for sharing this!
I agree totally. I think about all the meticulous detail goes into putting something in coldness of space. The precision the instruments have to be, the fact that it gets hit wit debris!! It’s amazing how long voyager has been out in space and the can still communicate with it! I always wanted to be a part of NASA and I feel like this is the first experience where everyone, from many countries can feel like they were a part of something really special. This was our moon landing!
You all were just killing it. 🔥 That's amazing.
Yeah, it's really fantastic the amount of engineering and planning that went into this.
Awesome work. :)
Hat’s off to you my man. Respect.
Nice work, we can all breathe a collective sigh of relief. I can't wait to see what gets released next.
You mean after the colonoscopy of the black hole. Lot of gases...
FRASER CAIN!
Dyson spheres?
Hey Fraser! Hey, everybody check out Fraser's video too!
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@@stuartdparnell *imagine a Dyson sphere that contains an entire galaxy...insane i know but that's just how my brain works*
The JWST is an absolute triumph of human engineering. Seriously makes me tear up with happiness and pride for the team of people who made this happen. Bravo
The more we learn, the more we realize how little we know.
If you ever wonder if God exists ... well ... don't look up.
I think it's important to remember that the Hubble deep field image almost didn't happen. An astronomer basically put his career on the line to get the image.
This is a great story for a UA-camr to make.
Wow.. didn't know that
@@TheSearchForTruth88 don't be so conservative, there is much to explore outside the old ways/knowledge.
@@TheSearchForTruth88 Do some thinking
@@TheSearchForTruth88 and meanwhile, outside of your Dunning-Krueger bubble....
I am actually old enough to remember being gobsmacked when the Hubble images started to come out.
I'm very happy to be gobsmacked once again.
My mom told me that would make me go blind.
I was amazed by Mt. Palomar telescope
Cassini for me. Unlocked the whole idea of it. This is just so exciting.
I remember being gobsmacked by Voyager 2's photos of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. To think how far we've come just in my lifetime when it comes to observing the universe around us.
May you have many more years of being gobsmacked :) (by amazing science, and not by humanity's other extreme, heh).
Given how many potential failure points there were to get to this point and how delicate and fraught the whole operation was, the fact that it works at all is incredible. The fact that it works THIS WELL is absolutely mind-boggling.
The calibration tolerances coupled with the thermal expansion and contraction. Hell even the launch vibration but nope. Forget "this well", Its honestly mind blowing that this thing works AT ALL. Go us! Woot Woot!!!
Everyone who engineered this should get the Presidential Medal of Freedom, or suitable equivalent in the science world.
@@suedenim6590 for as much as humans suck a lot of the time, we can also be pretty amazing when we really try.
Within our lifetimes we will see the next generation of telescope up there and it will improve on the JWST at least as much. What lucky people we are - even if our world is turning to crap we are gifted this amazing knowledge.
@@goodlookinouthomie1757 within our lifetimes we may have the chance to be up there ourselves, we may even see a sunrise on another planet
12:33 "Colonoscopy. They did a colonoscopy on the black hole." The late great comedian Robert Schimmel once rhetorically asked why we call the things in space "asteroids" and those other things "hemorrhoids", suggesting that it would probably make more sense the other way around. See what you started here, Joe? 😎
asteroids come from sitting on cold rocks, and can hurt terribly when you poop!!😱🤪🤣🤣😂🤣😂👊🏼💯
And George Carlin equated rockets as phalsas. We humans have a natural potty humor about us.
Seriously, I was privileged to watch Mercury, Gemini and Apollo though their missions and was so excited then a 30-year dry spell came upon US until the Shuttle was finally retired after killing the only astronauts in missions, 14 humans dead. Cassini and a few Mars rovers were cool, but WEB is the new high. Very cool, thanks for the video, Ken
its called farting -
Not gonna lie, kind of living for what else is found in this project. Absolutely awe-inspiring stuff.
ditto..
I’m so excited…can you imagine if they really do discover life?! Discovery of all time tbh!
@@ShhheilaASMR The exciting thing is that this telescope, being able to evaluate absorption spectra of transiting planets, it really could do it.
@@ShhheilaASMR At best they will have a strong suspicion but they cant discover life this way.
@@davepeterschmidt5818 that’s what I’m saying!! It’s likely!
I was a teenager when the first pictures of Jupiter came back from Voyager. Our local newspaper went out of its way to print a color front page because of it. People were in awe. That's what I thought of when you asked when was the last time you remembered people being united in enjoying good news: the Voyager pictures of Jupiter.
Later, I was getting my undergrad degrees in physics and astronomy when my professors were saying, "When Hubble launches, we'll be able to blah blah blah." This is part of why I didn't take seriously the people that were moaning about how the Webb launch delays. There are always launch delays, and in the end, the damn thing always launches.
Right now, I just want JWST to find a chemical disequilibrium in an exoplanet somewhere that can't be explained by anything but life of some kind. I want to know that there is a form of life somewhere that has nothing to do with humans or Earth.
With 10,000 galaxies in a grain of sand, there is no no no way we are the only game in town. It’s an infinite amount of arrogance to think that…. “Look at how special we are!” JWST: “Hold my beer”
@@Coveskipper Well said. It is simply madness to try and imagine the absolute scale of the Universe. The distances may be too great to overcome and we may be condemned with living out a lonely existence. If you look at things from the perspective of the Universe, some form of robotic sentient life may be the next phase in evolution, no matter the starting point or original composition of its creators. We know for certain that the Universe took at least 13.7 billion years to evolve intelligent enough life that can self-reflect and create. What if we humans (and possibly other intelligent beings) are marching toward an inevitable merge with technology that can withstand the harsh, vastness of space-time, and exist on a timescale that spans thousands of eons with the purpose of saving the Universe from a bitter cold heat-death? *passes blunt*
There is one of Jupiter among the test images from JWST, btw.
@@Coveskipper It’s possible. Just unlikely; kindof. We have a sample size of one.
NGL man the deep field is still the one that blew my mind. Zooming in knowing the tiny red dots are nearly the oldest free light in the universe, just reaching us now. Seriously mind blowing
It's free real estate
Facts man…..
It’s been there we just didn’t have eyes to see it.
@@smugmode nothing is free in this world, talked like a real disgusting colonizer.
The teal color and face in clouds I see looks like Webb has shown sexy Squidward watching over us all.
From here on out, I wanna hear "colonoscopy of a black hole" on every space video please. This was too good I almost peed my pants.
"They did a colonoscopy on a black hole o.o"
We need it on a shirt
The day the images came out I downloaded the high res pngs (some are 180MB) and put them on a tv and was zooming in on all the galaxies in the deep field. My 10 year old came in to look at them as he’s very interested in space, especially neutron stars, black holes and the possibilities of aliens.
He asked me what all the small dots were and when I told him individual galaxies, some are 13 billion yrs old and it’s a patch of sky the size of a grain of sand at arms length…his jaw dropped and he physically shuddered. Seemed like the right response.
I remember feeling like that when learning how big our universe is. It’s still hard to comprehend as a 30 year old.
The strongest point in favor of webb is that it captured the ultradeep field photo with a half work day of exposure, while hubble took 3 weeks!
[Actually] It only took 4 hours of ACTUAL exposure (or 4 & a half if you include the "pointing" & "stopping" of the telescope).
Then it did a lot of "system checkings" [as part of the global calibration & error_detecting procedures on its systems], before pointing its high_bandwith antenna for fast downlink [it generates a lot of heat, so observations are paused for a while].
Hubble could do observations, processing and data transfer simultaneously (but only "looking" with 1 instrument at a time, Webb can use them in pairs & record at high resolution].
Now imagine the detail jwst can capture with a 2 week exposure!
@@tragicanomaly1707 There is a "diminishing returns" problem when you are going to the "edge of the universe".
Hubble could NEVER get a picture like the one Webb just did, even if it dedicated an entire year of continuous observation to the same "ultradeep field".
-> Besides the wavelength limitations, there is also the "thermal noise" problem (much smaller for Webb thanks to the ACTIVE almost_absolute_zero_kelvin instrumentation) that sets a "laws_of_physics" barrier to accuraccy.
I remember when Hubble took that deepfeild image of our known Universe back in 1995 and people were saying how amazing it looked and to think it only took two weeks to receive it. That was in 1995 now in 2022 JSWT takes its deepfeild shot of galaxies in just a matter of hours instead of two weeks. Incredible how far technology has advanced in almost most 30 years. 😎
@@adolfodef Some big boy rockets are coming which can send big ass mirrors to space at low cost. In just 10 years, we will see SpaceX putting single mirrors in space multiple times its size at a fraction of its cost.
I think everybody needs to keep in mind that Hubble is still a world class instrument and its visible light data is a fantastic supplement to JWST data.
We found Hubble's burner account
@@diggitus Haha, someone running Hubble is like "... but guys, look how great we are!"
If JWST see’s farther than other telescopes it is because it stands on the shoulders of great Telescopes.
@@lucassmith4524 That is true. Every achievement has its place, just poking some fun
visible light pssssht
Hubble was like humanity squinting into the darkness to see what was out there. JWST is like opening our eyes. I've always said that the most exciting thing about JWST is it's going to answer questions that we didn't even think to ask.
my fav part about this comment is that we will hopefully look back on the JWST as humanity squinting
@@HeatSeeker19 thats so beautiful actually im so excited for all the progress ahead of us
@@HeatSeeker19 Voting Democrat is like closing your eyes again
I literally started work at the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh this Monday, just a day before the release of the images. Some of the people there worked on MIRI and seeing them be so overjoyed and happy about JWST was an extremely wholesome moment.
A few of them were justt back from the US where they were comissioning the telescope for the past 3 months and they shared their journey in some wonderful presentations. Truly a great time to be alive indeed.
Cool story, needs more dragons
Was it literally an extremely wholesome moment?
i was in elementary school during the moon landing.i remember a teacher called mr litefoot wheeling a tv outside his class room so everyone could watch.he said we were going to watch history in the making.i was mesmerized.when my teacher came over to round us up for her class he vehemently told her no.because of him i got to see it happen live.thanks mr litefoot youre the best
awesome teacher!!!! :)
Literally brings tears to my eyes. The ingenuity and effort by all involved should get a standing ovation. Great vid Joe. Right there with you.
All fake - Nasa accidentally released photos before they even finished the alignment.
i DID tear up when he was talking about the stuff about us not getting good news and stuff. :')
@@GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusket Cute
A friend of mine worked most of his career at the Canadian Space Agency, running space-environment testing. He spent literally *years* doing testing of the Fine Guidance Sensor for James Webb. For big projects like this, many people will spent a *significant fraction* of their entire careers working on them. I'm so very happy that JWST is up there and doing its thing now!
“Colonoscopy on the black hole” had me failing out of my chair cracking up. That was hilarious Joe!
I am still crying :D :D
100% an outtake he decided to just leave in.
And I love it!
one of the best parts
I couldn't even try to resist LOL
Best laugh I've had all month. It was "gravitationally lensed" upward when he realized what he said only AFTER he said it. 12:15
I nearly cried when I first saw the images. It's truly, truly breath-taking in every sense of the word.
You nearly cried ?
really?... really?
Really dude ?
You nearly cried?
Wow ..... wow dude....just..... WOW!!!
@@rainblaze. Yes, because it's something magical seeing something that you've been hearing about in development your whole life giving us a glimpse into the next chapter of science.
I understand that you're probably still a kid who's insecure with your emotions, but crying is nothing to be ashamed of!
(Also, don't like your own comments immediately after posting them, it's weird.)
Ok. That’s corny😂 Come on now.
@@MS-37 That's fine! I'm very secure in my emotions! :)
To all the other 'macho men' who may want to reply and prove how little emotion you have...
It's 2022 and you're still scared of tears?! Snowflakes lmao
Dr. Becky is the absolute best. I watch every thing she does, she's such an amazing communicator.
One of the best for sure!
Hi Joe. Thanks for posting this video, great content and nice precise explanations on everything. I worked on JWST at NG for the last 15 years, mainly on the design of the Sunshield and the engineering of everything that as you put it "could have gone wrong 14 million ways but didn't" for that Sunshield to deploy and tension up, so I am beyond thrilled to be seeing these images and can't wait to see what happens over the next 20 years :) I think you nailed it on the head when you said, "let's take this victory". Finally a positive win for ALL of humanity, getting the entire population to agree on 1 thing is impossible, but I believe Webb can be that miracle. I have high confidence we will find that for sure signal of life on an exoplanet using Webb, and I can't wait for that day!!! Thanks again for sharing your insight on our Observatory through your channel. Great job!
I was 14 when I got my first pair of eyeglasses. Funny thing about your first glasses is you have no idea how bad your vision is. I remember walking outside and being absolutely gobsmacked at how stunningly, incredibly crisp and clear everything was. I'll never forget that moment.
This gives me those same feels.
Same here.
I remember thinking...you can see individual leaves on trees?! Lol
Look at the leaves!!!
it always seems like everyone first reaction to getting glasses is the trees. i too remember finally seeing all the individual leaves when i first put on my glasses as a kid. i also remember in school having to actually pay attention to what the teacher was saying while taking notes instead of just looking at the board bc i couldn’t see anything. and then i got glasses and was like “you mother fuckers could see the teachers writing this whole time?!?”
@@LPOband yes! I remember getting up regularly and approaching the board to read it. Got glasses and was like, well now..
I feel as though so many people are unaware of just how grand this truly is. Jwst and the incredible dedicated team behind it are such a remarkable milestone for all of humankind.
It isn't grand at all. It's a false Photoshop composite. There is no JWST or Hubble. It's a bunch of overpaid galaxy artists creating this nonsense with composites and bad photoshopping.
@@TheSearchForTruth88 Even if true, at least give these “galaxy artists” some credit lol.
I love the video of the image taken from hubbles perspective, transitioning to the JWST image, the level of detail is amazing.
I love seeing everyone talk about these. Everyone's excitement about the images make me so much more excited as I look at them.
Good because without the excitement it's pretty much nothing exciting
The pics are beautiful.
But unlike Hubble, JWST doesn't see visible light. Which means they as beautiful as the images are, they aren't actually what we would see if we, or Hubble was looking at it.
This is so goddamn amazing. When I first heard about JWST I thought "Huh, that will be cool in like 10 years." Then I heard about the countless delays.
Then there waere the launch delays and I was thinking "So much bad news these days, I'd better get ready to be disappointed." But the launch went off just fine.
Then I heard about the issues Hubble had when it first became operational, I thought "Huh, must be at least a year or so before they get JWST fully operational."
Then we got the images... And I was like "HOLY SHIT! THIS IS AMAZING!" *THEN* Joe Scott was like "These are just test images."
I can't wait to see what we get next! This is such a triumph for literally everyone on Earth who can see these images. They're so immensly beautiful.
Scientists then: We unlocked the human genome and put the Hubble telescope into orbit! Scientists now: FOR THE LAAAAAST TIIIIME, THE EARTH IS ROUND!!!
We can't save those who don't want to be saved.
🤣🤣🤣
LMAO
I wondered where you were going, then I fell of my chair laughing.
Great comment.
😂😂😂👍
Joe, you’re fantastic. Please don’t stop doing you. Having science explained with your voice is truly wonderful.
What a cool set of awe inspiring photos.
Cheers
I was amazed by Hubble and extremely more amazed by Webb. But considering Webb took 30 years to build, the next space telescope should absolutely blow our minds. And we have only seen test shots from Webb that are far above the shots from Hubble. I am excited to see the images yet to come from Webb. It is incredibly awesome knowing we are seeing images as far back in time to the near beginning. It is all just so incredibly mindboggling and beautiful. I would not have thought that it could get any better than Hubble and just the test shot from Webb has proven me wrong. Hope I am still around to see the images from the space telescope that replaces Webb. But until then, we will have an awesome show from Webb.
Can you not see it is all lies. Why did they not point the tin foil Hubble back to earth??? use a bit of critical thinking.
This was honestly a highlight of the last like 20 years for me, the only issue is that I haven't got anyone to talk to about this lol. I think people are misunderstanding how awesome this is because like you said these are only test images and we're going to learn so much more in the coming years thanks to the JWST.
I tried to start a discussion at work andddd…crickets. I’m a nurse. I brought up the images on a computer and showed the other nurses, the doctors, the therapists, the janitor. No one was very hyped, and it made me sad. Then a therapist told me today that he went home and learned more, and my faith was restored a little bit.
i have that last picture with the milky clouds as my desktop background. it's absolutely stunning
Joe. You're right! The fact that JWSP can not only do this for 5 years, but now it can do it 4 times longer. THAT IS WILD!
European Space Agency deserves So Much credit for their perfect launch. 10 Billion Dollars seemed a bit much for 5 years, but for 20 years! That makes it So worth it
It is amazing the science muscle shown on this. And also, kudos to the Hubble team: I am impressed for the shots it was able to do with the technology available at that time.
No Webb without Hubble, who's part of a chain going back to Herschel, Newton and Galileo.
Yes indeed. Hubble was ground-breaking basically up until the first image from JWST, and it will still be amazing and scientifically useful until it becomes inoperable.
It's still an amazing instrument and supplements JWST capabilities well. I suspect it will be doing groundbreaking science for quite a while yet.
I remember when the Hubble Space Telescope was first launched there was a problem where it couldn't focus on anything. To correct the issue a new lens was installed basically giving the Telescope a pair of glasses so it could focus.
Plus the orbital rendezvous with the space shuttle where astronauts serviced it like a car mechanic, haha. Wild stuff
The 'flares' are called "diffraction spikes" and they're the result of two aspects of JWST combining. First, the hexagonal shape of the tiles, as you said, but second the three struts of the support structure. When they add up, you get the 8 point pattern. In a perfect world, where fuel wouldn't be an issue, if they rotated on axis, those could be 'taken out' by a second look. As is, they're here to stay, unfortunately.
From a research perspective I can see the importance of removing these artifacts, but from a photography perspective they would be much less interesting photos if everything was perfectly round.
@@MrScorpianwarrior Yeah - I actually love the spikes (from a non-scientific viewpoint) - from just an aesthetic perspective, they're beautiful.
Love Joes, modest approach to this and yet preserving his absolute enthusiasm for the science...
The "Let them have this" part made me laugh a little because I was at work for the live stream, and since I work for my parents they had to deal with me excitedly telling them about the images and what they were and literally crying over how overwhelmed with emotion I was. A few times my mom looked a freaked out (not in a bad way, but like she thought i was going to actually burst)
Hahaha! That's super cute. Heh.
love it -- and you were not alone!
@@meesalikeu Seems like I was far from it!
Without getting into details, in 2016 I was feeling really depressed and was thinking of doing the deed, the only thing that kept me going was the wait for Webb and its images and future discoveries, and boy oh boy, am I ever glad I didn't go through with it because these are stupendous.
I'm glad you didn't do the deed. Life can seem like a curse, but small things like this make it feel like the true miraculous gift that it is. Plus more images on the way!
*I WORK WITH* victims of abuse - I use the Hubble Deep Field Image to help victims recover...
That is how awe-inspiring this stuff is
That's interesting.
Great to think that these images can make your work even more awe and help someone even more.
@@zdenek3010 - People lose the ability to outward, their world becomes incredibly tiny and filled with misery. It would be way better to use LSD or MDMA, but as a legal alternative, the Hubble Deep Field helps. Especially if you enthuse about it.
@@piccalillipit9211 The combo would be mindblowing.
@@paulknight9998 - They used to call MDMA "Penicillin of the soul" in the psychology profession...
Crazy that its a Class A drug / class 1 drug. I was once walking around town on MDMA at night, there had been a crash at the traffic signals that day and the road was covered in the little cubes of glass which picked up the red, green and yellow of the traffic lights - it was like a million stars exploding into colour on the inky blackness of the tarmac - it was amazing...
I've been counting the days until JWST's launch since I first read about it in a science book in 2007 when I was 10 years old. I can honestly say it was worth the wait.
Ever since I was a kid watching Star Trek, I wanted to become an Astrophysicist just so I could do Spectrograph readings of far away planets. I always felt it was basically the closest thing we can currently do to “see” what these planets might look and be like without the Warp drive to help us travel to them.
Looks like you discovered some new pronouns.
I find this so amazing! To be alive during this time of such discovery almost brings me to tears, but thats what living 70 years will do to you. Makes me feel like a kid thinking, " so much to see, so much to do!" This excites these old bones!
I'm 67 .
So, I've witnessed a fair number of 1sts. I still remember seeing Sputnik as a young kid. My metal lunch box with space and space ships on it. John Glenn, 1st moon landing, space shuttles and failures.
But, all that human space exploration ended with the space shuttle saga.
I just wonder why all this stuff exists in the first place.
The more we learn, the more we realize how little we know.
Do we have purpose ? Are we nothing more than a random event ?
When I die ... I am a only a blip without meaning ?
Or has our universe been created to hold a greater contruct to our existance ?
I fear that no one can explain.
Man I'm soooooo glad this day is finally here. I've been waiting so long for jwst and to see these new pictures is just such an honor
I will admit that I lost my patience regarding the JWST's postponed launches, but now that it has launched, just wow, jaw-dropping images. /salute to all who made it possible
o7
It was the best Christmas present!
Same. Couldn't wait for the launch in 2016, then delay after delay I just kinda forgot about it until everyone started hyping it up again this year. Had cautious optimism until it actually launched, and...WOW. Nothing could've prepared me for what I am seeing
i have that last picture with the milky clouds as my desktop background. it's absolutely stunning
That deep field image is _mindblowing._ All those galaxies, _each_ with countless teeming trillions of stars. What manner of fantastic beasts walk under all those alien suns?
Underrated comment! And yes it just makes you think, there’s NO WAY we are alone out here.
@@smfreij We're all alone together
I always enjoy your ad lib humor - that's one of the reasons your program is among my favorites!
Great episode! I saw the moon landing live in a local news studio (I was 20). Hubble (once it was fixed was deservedly jaw-dropping, but Webb... Along with the composite pictures, we also get spectra of the targets. The only thing missing is the close-up of an alien on a habitable planet waving hello at us. And you're right, this is a moment of good news!
It wouldn’t see us because it would be staring at its #&@?phone .
@@garyfrancis6193 more like it wouldn't see us because the light travels too slowly for them to respond quick enough
I was watching those ghostly images from another world, in 1969. I saw that "one small step", and for a moment, the whole world saw it as they sat (beside me) in awe. It was a very positive global moment. Nothing since has held so much of our soul up to the Universe. A moment when we promised the Cosmos that we were coming. That we would always be coming.
It’s amazing and fun to see scientists so excited about what the JWST has produced. I’m blown away by the photos and I started to watch all the videos about this phenomenal new telescope and how it’s affected people who are experts. I haven’t seen results like this before. It’s an incredible and exciting time and I look forward to more images. Thanks for keeping us updated on this topic.
As NDT put it, we are eternally grateful for the thousands of engineers who put this puzzle together. It is their countless hours and years of dedication that made this possible. I've literally waited my whole life for this and I couldnt be happier that it is a smashing success!
Had a coworker say, "I don't get it, its just a bunch of stars".
After putting my broken brain back together, my inner, "um, actually ☝️🤓..." Came bursting out
Innate wonder is a thing not all of us are gifted with.
yeh my friend calls anything to do with space, "a waste of money that could be used fixing problems on earth" and believes alot of it is lies.
Imagine not being able to conceptualize the importance of these images. "I don't get it." Would become the anthem for that mindset.
@@ikitclaw7146 That's a deflating thought. So sad for you.
Hubble Ultra Deep Field already blew me away for the sheer amount of galaxies and unfathomable scope and size, Webb’s First Deep Field now takes it to a new level with this unreal amount of detail and gravitational lensing. The warping of galaxies in such clarity is just awesome to behold.
This amazingly advanced tool was the work and brilliance of scientists and engineers from 19 different countries! The US, Canada and the 17 countries of the ESA! All contributing their part to a system as important as Galileo's first handmade telescope.
Somehow in the euphoria I feel some sadness that its just that many countries can take part actively while so many others which enabled it from the mining of the raw materials, to the transportation, to the brutal economics and history of civilisations, intellectual and social, feel left out. I don't mean what it might seem, sorry. Heck, I am in one of those countries, but I do feel proud too as we humans reach so beyond ourselves like no other creatures can, that we know off. Hubble's first good images feel just like yesterday.
As I reach the milestone of reaching 60 today, I know it will continue to be just a dream that one day, at least the majority of us, can hold a product of this and feel I am directly a part of it too. It may just never happen even if I live another thousand years, sadly.
The leaps that we have made just in that 60 years, just in looking out to outer space, made me feel so exceptional to be in this generation, after thousands of generations.
So, Congratulations and Thank You to all those who made this happen, so many no longer with us, some/many in sad ways, to even imagine it. Just hoping further that what we are about to discover will not lead to us to being even more divided than we already are.
@@johnwebber750 That is a very thoughtful reply, John. Be well
@@artdonovandesign As I slowly age, I realise that its just thoughts that still move me. I am basically done with what I can do. Not a super traveller as some, but I have been to the far east, to the far west and to the far south of the globe (exc antartica ie).
Hurts deep to remember all the good people I talked to everywhere, where everybody could have been family, and nobody I will ever talk to again (and some may even sneer at me now considering global events).
And yet we continue to be greedy just for our own lineage when just in the past 60 years we could have unshackle ourselves from history into a new path. Likely we won't. I have been in deception in this most fruitful period. Hell, we could have a war on the moon or Mars in the coming decades!!
Be well to you too, Sir.
Love your channel! After I enjoy your videos I send them to my mom (73yo) and my nephew (5yo) and they both love them. When the age range of your audience is 5 to 73, you know you're doing something right. Keep it up! You make the internet a truly better place :D
James T.Kirk: "Spock, i need a sensor sweep of the atmosphere of that planet."
Spock: "Sorry Captain, the distance is 5 light years. Too far for this type of analisys."
James T.Kirk:"Mr.Spock, how the hell did you manage to become a science officer...... you are fired. Hundreds of years ago JWST made the same analisys, his first one, on a planet 640 light years from Earth."
Reality beats science fiction
Perhaps Kirk was expecting to get current info on the planet's atmosphere vs how it was 5 years ago. We see the deep field as points within it were 640 years ago. Some closer and more recent, others farther and longer ago. Being able to "sense" what is going on there now, would require some subspace or warp technology outside our current level of technology.
Mr Spock wouldn't be fired, he would be demoted to a lower rank
I saw meme the other day, that said Star Trek has been around for 57 years and the Confederacy was only around for three. So we should be building statues to Spock, and naming schools after James T Kirk.
JWST needs a statue.
@@mediaworldwide9848 it literally isn't possible to get current info of the planet anyways though, whatever science fiction it is, information can't travel that fast
I just wanna see Joe's reaction when JWST team finds out those FRB's where just Death Stars exploding planets all along
The speed difference is what really shocked me when I read it (Aside from the amazing images obviously). It's crazy how much more data we can get out of it just because of that.
Like, 2 weeks to less than 12 hours? And the results are so much better? I knew it would be better than Hubble but i didn't realize how much of a technology gap it would be.
Great post Joe. I didn't have the level of enthusiasm for what the NASA Webb team pulled off until watching today. Thank you for raising my level of appreciation and "awe" for the program.
The feels were huge for me, and hugely nostalgic for the reasons you mentioned; it was unequivocal joy and inspiration the likes I can't recall feeling since I was a kid (decades ago). Perhaps slivers of it I remember of Pluto closeups by New Horizons, or when Perseverance landed on Mars. But that first image - every time I look at it, chills the likes of which I can't really remember.
And gosh is it a nice change of pace.
I hope they take a few of the "pillars of creation" as a tribute to Hubble. I know they're very strict on science time (understandably), but maybe.
That must be high on the to-do list.
2:39 if you look closely at the two curved aberrations on the right hand side caused by gravitational lensing you can see that they are actually mirror images of each other, Just like in an optical lens the image is flipped. This must mean that the light isn't bent around an object due to gravity but that the gravitational effect forms a bubble of increased density similar to a water bubble floating in the space station and we are observing the light passing directly through the dense gravitational bubble. Interesting to see this affect from relative time due to gravity...
You know, I've been following Webb and excited about all of this for a while, now, but I guess I wasn't as hyped as I should be until watching this video. This really is a BIG, potentially world changing event, a net win for all of humanity, and in total defiance of the odds. Thanks for helping me properly appreciate the scope of all this, Joe.
really? exactly what world changing event took place with these “images” (drawings)
@@adamfirst9321 Astronomy is one of the main science branches that help scientists from other areas like physics and mathemathics to make new discoveries with all the new evidence that increase our knowledge of the universe.
@@martiddy
I ask again… exactly what world changing “new discoveries” has 60 years of Space Travel given humanity???
Other than Duct Tape, i mean.
@@adamfirst9321 There have been a lot of technologies developed by the space exploration, like the GPS, thermal blankets, freeze dried food, cochlear implants, memory foam and a lot of other materials. Just check this Wikipedia article about all the comercial technologies created by NASA: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spinoff_technologies
@@adamfirst9321 the fact you have a video to watch is reason enough. No space program no internet. Simple basic knowledge that is taught to children...
I think the last time we had "similar" news is when Hubble became properly operational. I still remember the awe of its ground breaking pictures and discoveries. Here's to JWST carry on and surpass its legacy!
I hope it finds Elvis!
Seems like a perfect symmetry:
20 years to develop, 20 years in service. I wonder what the cost per image will work out to.
Worth every penny IMO.
I never thought about a price per image... The proposed high speed rail link between Baltimore and DC supposed to cost something like $6, 500 per inch, though, so it's still probably a better deal than that.
The project was quoted at $500 million and at the end it cost 20 times much more. I like NASA and its amazing telescopes but please don’t be blind: Japanese and European teams and NASA would have delivered the same telescopes for 5% less than NASA.
NASA does great jobs to the American people and also for the rest of the world but NASA ALSO wastes a lot.
Can you imagine trying to explain these images of all those galaxies to Galileo? He'd probably comprehend it but he'd probably have trouble believing it.
Crazy how far we have come in such a relatively short space of time.
Have you commented this elsewhere??? I swear I've read this comment before.
I imagine him laughing and saying “I knew it! The church can shove it!” But in Italian
@@369Sigma 😂😂👍
he'd probably shit his pantaloons
Can you imagine trying to explain this to an American creationist? Galileo would have less problems believing/understanding.
you can tell how excited joe is about this by how he’s stumbling over his words more than usual, much love ❤️
This kinda stuff makes me proud to be a human. It’s a rare feeling these days
Another HUGE difference between Web and Hubble, aside the quality upgrade (and the many new instruments) is that Web needs 5-20x less time (depending on what you're recording) than Hubble needed.
Not only does it see more, it sees it faster.
So they could do extra long exposures of those spots on a later date and get even more detail and information out of it.
i think the longest session thats going be to available for Web's early program is about 56 days
@@skeven0 Deep Field took Hubble 2 weeks. Web took a better capture in a day.
56 days is an eternity.
@@enlightendbel its not that they are gonna do a exposure of 56 day, its the allotted time for a group of scientist,
but we are defenitly going to see a longer exposure from JWST
to whomever is reading this, wishing you the best possible day/night -- remember, what we think, we become!
I so agree with you we needed this. It is a huge victory during a time when we needed something good. Thank you to all the people who built this amazing telescope and thank you Scott your video.
That's so true. Feels like theres nothing but bad news. Nice to have something truly positive. Good day to you.
Excellent reporting. "Cool space shiz" sums it up for me, fo' sho'. I wasn't too geeked about it before your presentation, but I'm just floored at how impressive these images are. Great job! All good wishes.
The only thing that made me smile this week was those James Webb telescope photos.
turns out all this time, it was actually no moon [reset sequence initiated]
You're right in the end. It seems we've had a drought of objectively "good" news lately. I'm glad something humans have done went right for once.
Things people do usually go right. Think about how amazing it is that we can eat mangoes in January or that water comes out of faucets. 99.9% of life goes well but our brains are always seeking novelty and, unfortunately, novelty for humans usually means that things have gone worse than expected. So those are the things we notice and the things that media reports on.
I’ve dealt with some naysayers or even this achievement! How we should have spent time and resources on healthcare or social safety nets or engineering more bountiful forms of crops or developing breakthroughs on 3D printing organs because so many people die every day on waitlists.
“They’re here dying in the dirt while you’re staring at stars. It has no direct impact on us. You know what does? Death! By the thousands!”
I got a right earful. 😳
The Voyager 2 launched 8 days after my 6th birthday. I can remember when the photos of Jupiter and Saturn were first shown to the public. They're what made me fall in love with astronomy and the universe. This is like an early birthday present. We are so lucky to be alive at this point in time.
BTW, didn't notice your air conditioner because I can barely hear anything over my air conditioner 😄
😂😂 same
The really cool part of this all for me is that I recently got my BS in physics and love astronomy. I'm hoping to be accepted for my PhD candidacy in Astrophysics. I've learned all of these cool things about space and astronomy, but now I can actually see it. I did my own analysis of this picture before hearing anything about it from anywhere else, and I came up with the same conclusions that I'm hearing now. So its really cool to see your work paying off and your ability to discover and analyze this stuff on your own.
You should do your own UA-cam channel!
I remember seeing Hubble's image of the Pillars of Creation. I was just amazed. And now there is JWST...Wow!
Pillars of creation shot by hubble still looks incredible compared to these tho?!?! Am I taking crazy pills!? Why is this so impressive?
I was awake for 48 hours for the moon landing; an event I had been waiting for since early childhood. I inherited a set of early 20th century encyclopedias which contained one beautiful colored front plate showing how many YEARS it would take various models of early airplanes to fly to the moon.
But one little rocket got people all the way there and a tin can got them back?
@@realityshotgun - Not only that, but if you have a fitness watch, you have as much computing power as NASA used at Mission Control to guide the whole thing. Oh, and I loathed the sight and sound of Jules Bergman trying to predict doom, beating the catastrophe drum, during the return to Earth.
How did they live stream someting hundreds of thousand of miles away? That's always been a question that pops up in my head!
@@thefellowheirs - consider SETI - a network of radio telescopes around the world ‘listening’ for radio signals from space. They were designed to pick up patterns of frequencies from who knows how many light years away, possibly from other galaxies. The moon is only a few hundred thousand MILES away. They may have done a lot of it with slide rules, but they got the job done. And if you think that’s impossible, consider the Antikythera device, a mechanical brass thingy (?) that was found in a sunken Greek ship, made somewhere around 2300 years ago, that calculated the movement of the visible planets, sun and moon, and fixing the dates of lunar and solar eclipses. That’s not too shabby.
@@judithgockel1001 yo thank you for that. Love you used evidence for this. It's a big claim to say they faked it. But it's healthy to question things. And if you have truth. You'll be able to provide evidence just like that. I will be diving head first into those topics you mentioned! Thank you!
I've been giddily looking forward to the JWST launching for half my life. I'm so glad I get to be alive to see what this thing discovers.
Thank you for giving all the shout out to Dr. Becky. You have a lot more followers but, she is the one that lead me to you quite some time ago
The JWST is incredible but Hubble is decades old and imagine how old the design is so fair play to Hubble people because it still looks pretty fantastic. PEACE and Love to everyone
I don't think anyone is crapping on Hubble. Hubble did an amazing job. I think without Hubble, JWST wouldn't exist. JWST is continuing the mission Hubble pioneered and doing so much more besides.
there's no comparison to be made when discussing a later technology built on the back of an earlier one. there would be no such thing as a silicon chip without vacuum tubes prior
Neither of these telescopes exist.
I wasn't suggesting that anyone was insulting the Hubble , I was just amazed at what we can achieve when everyone works together for the good of humanity. Who knows what marvellous advances this could bring to us all in the future ?. As for Mr neither of them exist well they have certainly fooled the smartest people on the planet !!! I hope everyone has a great day & try keep cool in the very warm weather , don't forget about the animals in the heat . PEACE and LOVE to everyone.
Webb. #1 In colonoscopies since 2022. For real, though, been waiting for these images for years and totes not disappointed.
One cool thing about the new deep field, from what I've heard, is that it represents 12 hours of exposure. Hubble took much longer to collect the data it shows.
Took hubble 3 weeks.
These images have gotten me so incredibly excited. They are so incredible! Congratulations everyone that worked on this telescope and interpret the discoveries.
Thank you for covering this, Joe!
Imagine how quickly we could advance as a society if the budget for the US wasn’t essentially almost entirely shoved towards military. I heard the military has a budget of $600B, whereas NASA has a puny $1B in comparison. Wtaf
Yea....imagine if half the world actually had its own military and protected it's own interests, then we wouldn't have to.
To be fair, if we didn't defend ourselves there would be nobody left to research, and a TON of modern consumer technology first is developed for military use then brought down to consumer levels.
That being said, I don't entirely disagree.
I wish there was a single person in my life that appreciated these pictures and this event as much as I do.
I can’t talk to anyone about this. 😭
You should join a local astronomy club if you can. :)
Joe, you have provided an outstanding video for your viewers. The initial images are profoundly humbling when one thinks of our position in the cosmos. The countless galaxies seem to suggest, in my opinion, that life must be out there because of the sheer number of planets orbiting the countless suns in EACH galaxy. And if you assume for a moment that there are "intelligent beings" on those far away, still-surviving planets in those galaxies, then from their perspective, we don't yet exist! Incredible!
I've been waiting for these images ever since the James Webb Telescope was announced. And as happy as I am to live in times like these, I am sad that I will probably not see the arrival of an unmanned spacecraft at alpha centauri.
Alpha Centauri doesn't exist.
@@TheSearchForTruth88 sorry, stupid me. And I really thought that alpha centauri a and alpha centauri b and proxima centauri was a real thing. But thanks for teaching me this....🤗
I think what should be really emphasized when comparing the Hubble pictures to JWST’s is the time each took to take these photos. While the deep field that JWST took is certainly better than Hubble’s, it took JWST 12.5 hours to take that photo compared to 22 days for Hubble.
It took 22 days because the image was a combination of many photos combined. Hubble travels around the Earth so can't photograph any object for very long, unlike JWST that is at a fixed point in space well away from the Earth or any other obstruction.
You mentioned the moon landing, but the last comparable astronomy advance for me was the Voyager 2 fly-by of Neptune, back in 1989 (when I was 8). _Scientific American_ had an entire issue devoted to it, which I utterly devoured. I mean, there have been lots of advances between then and now that are amazing on an intellectual level (*edit:* e.g. the first confirmed exoplanet wasn't until 1992), but nothing quite so visceral.
Highly recommend watching the PBS documentary ‘The Farthest Voyager in Space’
Really goes in detail on all the excitement around the voyager images
Great video Joe! One of the things that blew my mind with this was that it only took hours to take the detailed images they released rather than the days or weeks that Hubble took! Just imagine what they are going to produce when they eventually point JWST at something for a several weeks.
BEEN WAITING ON THIS SINCE TUESDAY!
SHOUT OUT TO DR. BECKY TOO!
Was waiting for this very video!! Thanks Joe!
Crazy fact: Hard Drive on JWST = 68 Gb. Granted it's a radioactive hardened ssd, but yep. Reason #1: it was spec'ed in 2005. It works, but at 10 bill, I would have asked for a capacity increase.
Ya seriously!
Today, that’s minuscule, but the designers at the time were giving themselves a huge amount of space.
Don’t worry.. the Computer Generated Images are done on Earth….
ask yourself how the distant galaxies are blown up to such detail.. but Stars in our own galaxy are still only specks right next to them!!!
@@adamfirst9321 You clearly don't realize how big space is. Of course the stars in our galaxy will be small. Look at our Sun with your own eyes. It's not big at all yet it's almost in your backyard (in astronomical terms). Now look at the next closest star. It's barely visible in comparison to our Sun. It's called Proxima Centauri and it's 268770 times further that the distance from the Earth to the Sun. Now, the stars which are captured in front of those super far galaxies aren't close to us at all. They are light years away, some even thousands light years away. They will be extremely small and look like nothing next to the whole galaxies which are much older and bigger than the Milky Way.
That shouldn't really matter. Its pictures only need to be there for the amount of time it takes to transmit them to Earth. If Webb had needed more data storage it would have gotten more data storage.
Fascinating! Could not stop watching from beginning to end. Thank you for the time and effort in bringing this online. Much appreciated.
The amount of time Hubble can remain locked on a Target is limited because of it's close proximity to Earth. The webb does not have that issue
It’s hard to wrap my head around that all these images came from our reality, from space, that they’re real, and not just pictures from a poster or movie or something
Absolutely mind blowing that these are real images, real stars, real galaxies…. Just still mind blowing
CGI!
@@cameroncunningham687 Proof?
@@artistanthony1007 it’s obvious.
It's interesting to think about how much of what we're seeing in these images doesn't actually exist anymore. We're seeing billions of years old "ghosts".
One of the technology companies in my relatively small town made the mirrors for both the Hubble and the Webb. We are very proud of our contribution to science. So both of these telescope have a special place in my heart. You did good Cullman! 👍