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  1. bailiff bridge bantam

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    AFE3A72E-90C2-4AE0-8696-0236AB9CBA42.jpeg
     
    #52 bailiff bridge bantam, Jul 13, 2022
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    I think Carl Sagan had something to say about such things:
     
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    #6 Stafford Bantam, Dec 8, 2021
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    NASA will start releasing the first full colour images and spectroscopic data at 15:30 BST (14:30 UTC) on Tuesday 12 July 2022. After 25+ years of planning, development and deployment, the real science is beginning.
     
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    #35 Stafford Bantam, Jun 29, 2022
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    Exciting: NASA has shared a 'teaser' image ahead of next week's eagerly-anticipated release of the first deep-space pictures from its James Webb Space Telescope
     
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    #36 Tony Wilkinson, Jul 8, 2022
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    Neptune, its rings and 6 of its moons:
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    #71 Stafford Bantam, Sep 21, 2022
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    so far so good, "sunshades deployed, secondary mirror deployed. Getting exciting.
     
    #22 Tennesseebantam, Jan 6, 2022
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    Arrival.
     
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    #26 Stafford Bantam, Jan 24, 2022
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    Jupiter, courtesy of James Webb:
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    #62 Stafford Bantam, Aug 23, 2022
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    I’m not in to all the space stuff but I am fascinated by the massive sizes,measurements,distances etc.

    To realise how massive Jupiter is,that little white swirling thing you asked about would be able to swallow up our earth.
     
    #68 bailiff bridge bantam, Aug 23, 2022
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    "Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space."
    Douglas Adams
     
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    #70 Stafford Bantam, Aug 23, 2022
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    Meanwhile back on Earth we kill each other arguing over umpteen different fairy stories ...
     
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    #5 Tony Wilkinson, Dec 8, 2021
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    For me it's not just the size of our planet but the time that we are here, 70 odd years or so, it's hardly the blink of an eye, why bother..?
     
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    #7 Tony Wilkinson, Dec 8, 2021
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    Yep, looking forward to this launch, praying nothing goes wrong after all this time. There's a thread on Reddit, talking about the telescope having a closer look at Proxima Centauri B due to light being detected on there in the past. Would be an amazing discovery if they are artificial!
     
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    A couple of short postponements, the latest for weather, means that the planned launch is now on Christmas Day. The target is to launch as early as possible within the launch window of 12:20 to 12:52 UTC/GMT.
     
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    #9 Stafford Bantam, Dec 22, 2021
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    You just couldn’t see the midget.

    It was always there!
     
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    #14 Fordy117, Dec 22, 2021
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    Trying not to go all Douglas Adams, that may indeed be the ultimate question. And whilst James Webb will be able to look back to just 200 million years or so after the big bang, it may be able to discover some tantalising clues.

    James Webb should help provide answers to a lot of things we know we don't know, but what also excites a lot of scientists are the possible unknown unknowns it may turn up, things that we just didn't expect, things that could turn our 'understanding' of the universe upside down and inside out.

    Exciting times ahead.
     
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    #15 Stafford Bantam, Dec 23, 2021
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    **so funny**so funny**so funny
    That may just be your best ever post on this forum.
     
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    The countdown clock is still counting down to a 12:20 UTC/GMT launch in a window of 12:20 to 12:52 UTC/GMT.
    https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/countdown.html
     
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    #19 Stafford Bantam, Dec 24, 2021
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    Went well, very impressive!
     
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    Now at 6 Kelvin according to BBC, good article posted on there today.
     
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