Hawking Radiation
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3 of those planets are in the goldilocks zone of the Trappist 1 system.
It would be bizarre for all 3 of them to be runaway greenhouse gas hellscapes.
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James Webb space telescope (JWST) launch scheduled for 24th of December.
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3 of those planets are in the goldilocks zone of the Trappist 1 system.
It would be bizarre for all 3 of them to be runaway greenhouse gas hellscapes.
Aggelos
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German Hops
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aw man, we're getting ever closer to discovering them ayys.
Aggelos
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NASA’s Webb Telescope Reveals Links Between Galaxies Near and Far - NASA
A new analysis of distant galaxies imaged by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows that they are extremely young and share some remarkable similarities to “green peas,” a rare class of small galaxies in our cosmic backyard.
www.nasa.gov
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RJMacready73
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i gotta admit i aint feeling these James Webb shots, yes they look great but we've seen them all a million times before from the Hubble, yes never with this much clarity but c'mon man i was hoping for new discoveries, exo planet atmospheres, a dyson sphere!! anything but oooh more pretty nebulaes...
Slayer-33
Liverpool-2
I don't know why these bastards aren't pointing the thing to tabbys star.
Maiden Voyage
Gold™ Member
Did you expect otherwise?
Bragr
Member
Dyson Sphere or bust.
Maiden Voyage
Gold™ Member
These images are from light billions of years ago. Planets were still forming.
Bragr
Member
Don't doubt the Aliens and their tricky bullshit. You never know with those guys, before you know it we will come across a Dyson Sphere.
Bitmap Frogs
Mr. Community
If JWST finds it they better keep the planet secret or else I can see idiots trying to communicate with the aliens…
Hawking Radiation
Member
Not just clarity but the ability to peer into the dust clouds to witness first hand how stars are born.
- Discoveries take time as the data needs to be carefully analyzed before they're revealed.
- There's a whole bunch of scientist vying for telescope time to study exoplanets, so again it will take time for everyone to comb through the data.
- Dyson sphere? Is that even a real object? I'd rather them study real things like black holes or neutron stars. Anything to better understand gravity and its influence on space time instead of wasting telescope time (which is limited because the observatory only has over a decade's worth of fuel) hunting for hypothetical objects like a dyson sphere.
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GnomeChimpsky
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Very neat. Although it's not the first image of an exoplanet.
Aggelos
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Maiden Voyage
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A billion lightyears is unfathomable. Space if so crazy to me. What the fuck even is reality?
IDKFA
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It's insane. The observable universe is around 93 billion light years. That's just the observable universe. It could well be much bigger.
My head swells from thinking about what's out there that we haven't discovered.
If you also believe in the possible multiverse, then there could be multiple number of universes, maybe an infinite amount of them.
Spaceman292
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Oh fuck yeah they finally found space dinosaurs
Aggelos
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Webb Detects Extremely Small Main Belt Asteroid - NASA
An asteroid roughly the size of Rome’s Colosseum — between 300 to 650 feet (100 to 200 meters) in length — has been detected by an international team of
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PUNKem733
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Nasa said that the launch was so efficient, Webb didn't need to use as much fuel to right itself into orbit and that they have closer to 20 years of fuel now.
It's insane. The observable universe is around 93 billion light years. That's just the observable universe. It could well be much bigger.
My head swells from thinking about what's out there that we haven't discovered.
If you also believe in the possible multiverse, then there could be multiple number of universes, maybe an infinite amount of them.
A scientist proposed that the ENTIRE universe is 150 SEXTILLION times bigger then the known universe.
Aggelos
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NASA’s Webb Reveals Intricate Networks of Gas and Dust in Nearby Galaxies - NASA
Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope are getting their first look at star formation, gas, and dust in nearby galaxies with unprecedented
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Bitmap Frogs
Mr. Community
What’s going on with the results of the Trappist analysis.
GnomeChimpsky
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The staggering booty of the cosmos.
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Is it me or do these gas clouds look like a naked really buff streetfighter character from behind?
sono
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Unfortunately I have a low opinion of sound bites like this what can we practically do with this information except go ooh ahh wow. Then what?
Back to practicalities.. Where are the results of studies of planets in the Goldilocks zone JWST?
If it is just us it seems like an awful waste of space.
sono
Member
Yep. Whatever happened we missed it
Chronicle
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Reality, conciousness, cognition etc is a gift from what most of us choose to call God. Be grateful today because there are trillions of others who will never experience this bizarre thing we refer to as life.
nkarafo
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Maybe i'm just a normie but i'm still waiting to see the images of how the universe came to be. Isn't this telescope up to snuff? Maybe that would answer some age old questions like how space, time and matter came to be. It would be nice if i could get some answers in my lifetime because all this is so bizarre and illogical.
Atheist here, why would i be grateful when all my experiences and memories will completely vanish soon enough anyway? The point of an "experience" is that you remember it. Sure, a lot of good things in life don't last but at least you do remember them afterwards, that's what makes them valuable. If you don't remember them then what's the point? Just the temporary dopamine rush?
Atheist here, why would i be grateful when all my experiences and memories will completely vanish soon enough anyway? The point of an "experience" is that you remember it. Sure, a lot of good things in life don't last but at least you do remember them afterwards, that's what makes them valuable. If you don't remember them then what's the point? Just the temporary dopamine rush?
IDKFA
Member
I'm not sure when humanity will answer these questions. Like you, I want to know how existence started, but just the thought of it melts my mind.
I've always been interested in the multiverse theory, which is in a nutshell that our universe is just one of many. However, it raises further questions such as if there are many universes then there had to be a start. There had to be an original or a genesis universe. If so then what started that? What was there before that process started. Was there anything at all.
Is it too early in the morning for this? Probably.
This isn't a religious point of view, but will our memories vanish when we die? Information cannot be deleted and our memories are information. In which case, what happens to our memories after we're gone? The information that make them cannot just vanish to nothing as that doesn't make sense.
Chronicle
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The fact that you remember now proves an afterlife. If you don't remember life would already be over. Much like being knocked out.
What does it matter if your an atheist or not. 'All your experiences and memories will vanish' you say. Well all the more reason yo be grateful today.
Tams
Member
No need to be concerned about things that will never be. What a bizarre hole to dig yourself.
It's not a gift. What utter drivvle. We just are, and that's that. And the only ones that ultimately matter are those alive with us, with a helping of those we will exist near our deaths, not that we'll be around to care for the latter.
Now, can we get back to science and on being on topic?
nkarafo
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Memory is just a brain cell configuration. The matter of the brain cells won't stop existing but the configuration they form will no longer exist, thus those memories will fade.
I mean, the brain messing up the configuration and losing memories is something that even happens to people who are alive, let alone dead.
Maiden Voyage
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Raistandantulus
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Webb was reported to be scheduled to study Fomulhaut in the first year. Must be quite the thing if it hasn't been updated yet.
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Chronicle
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But they did previously.This makes me feel bad for Alzheimer's patients. No afterlife for them.
PUNKem733
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Sound bite ROFL Guy does this work for a living his name is Dr Alan Guth a physicist not a teenager on twitch. Then what? It's outer space, what the fuck does then what mean?
sono
Member
Chill you seem to have missed my point of view
Knowing that space is really really big or really really really big is of little importance to the really important question as to whether planet earth is alone in the universe in having life, intelligent or otherwise. So far we have found.. nothing.
If we find evidence elsewhere we can spend resources investigating that further before we run out of resources on the one place we know that life does exist.
No amount if PhDs changes this statement of fact.
PUNKem733
Member
There are more stars then grains of sand on Earth, imagine how many planets there are orbiting these stars (Not ever star of course), so there are more planets then even stars the odds we are the only life forms in the universe is ridiculous. Having said that if we do find something it's more than likely gonna be some light years away so unless there is a major breakthrough with wormhole traveling or some such shit, we're never gonna contact them.
Ozzy Onya A2Z
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The capabilities of this telescope are like when you're a kid and sending secrets with magic markers and a black light. Gotta love it.
sono
Member
Exactly why we should focus on our neighbourhood and why looking at galaxies millions of light years away is pointless not only because of distance but also time the images are so old they are not like that today 150sextillion times bigger isn’t important
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Biff
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I'm sorry but WHAT?
JWST detected water? Dafuq?
Was this huge news when it was detected? I did not hear of this whatsoever.
Doesn't this extremely increase the likelihood of alien life? Or is this some bullshit like "we detected water**********" and then there are a dozen caveats for why it's only a 10% chance of actually being water.
Bragr
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Sorry, but those rumors come from idiots.
Bragr
Member
They detected water in the atmosphere. They are gonna find that a lot in the future. We have no idea what that means for alien life, we only know what that means on Earth.
Studying far away galaxies helps cosmologists build their understanding of how the universe began and how it functions.
Ozzy Onya A2Z
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My daughter had a disposable camera on a school trip and her photography skills with this shot straight up look like something JWST would shoot -
