<![CDATA[Space]]>So we’re getting our first images from the James Webb Telescope, and they’re beyond stunning.

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I know these are all over the internet right now, but in case anybody hadn’t seen them… well.

]]>https://brandmu.day/topic/130/spaceRSS for NodeSat, 04 Apr 2026 13:11:42 GMTTue, 12 Jul 2022 16:36:54 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Space on Thu, 14 Jul 2022 13:21:18 GMT]]>One of the things I love about our last series of scopes is that we’ve been all: Ok we think it’ll be this good, which is awesome and then the telescope is all…

Hold my drink.

]]>https://brandmu.day/post/3737https://brandmu.day/post/3737Thu, 14 Jul 2022 13:21:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Space on Thu, 14 Jul 2022 08:54:24 GMT]]>Found a gif on Reddit that explains where the subject of one of the more impressive JWST shots actually is:

https://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/vygdk0/i_made_this_short_video_that_zooms_out_of_jwsts/

]]>https://brandmu.day/post/3731https://brandmu.day/post/3731Thu, 14 Jul 2022 08:54:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Space on Tue, 12 Jul 2022 18:43:56 GMT]]>portal 2 space

]]>https://brandmu.day/post/3415https://brandmu.day/post/3415Tue, 12 Jul 2022 18:43:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Space on Tue, 12 Jul 2022 18:42:43 GMT]]>@KarmaBum That’s awesome. 🙂

]]>https://brandmu.day/post/3413https://brandmu.day/post/3413Tue, 12 Jul 2022 18:42:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Space on Tue, 12 Jul 2022 17:37:39 GMT]]>OH OH OH

It’s a PROPER use of the word AWESOME

]]>https://brandmu.day/post/3380https://brandmu.day/post/3380Tue, 12 Jul 2022 17:37:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Space on Tue, 12 Jul 2022 17:25:58 GMT]]>The James Webb was sitting at my husband’s work for a while before launch (like, a couple of years); we’re really attached to the whole thing. They did a lot of cool tours and stuff, and my son was able to go see it several times while it was here.

Every time a system came online, it was like a little mini-holiday at my house. When the first calibration image came back, it was like Christmas morning.

The magnitude of engineering and elbow-grease that has gone into getting us these images is tear-jerking.

]]>https://brandmu.day/post/3367https://brandmu.day/post/3367Tue, 12 Jul 2022 17:25:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Space on Tue, 12 Jul 2022 16:58:14 GMT]]>@Selira said in Space:

@Jennkryst three body problem is pretty great

Loved it. It’s very much in the high concept line of SF, but man, there’s some fascinating stuff in there. Also, I had done reading on the Cultural Revolution a few years ago, so it was interesting getting something that grew directly out of the consequences of that in sensibility.

]]>https://brandmu.day/post/3353https://brandmu.day/post/3353Tue, 12 Jul 2022 16:58:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Space on Tue, 12 Jul 2022 16:55:07 GMT]]>@Jennkryst I picked up that book a few days ago, actually. I haven’t started it yet, but been looking forward to reading it!

]]>https://brandmu.day/post/3352https://brandmu.day/post/3352Tue, 12 Jul 2022 16:55:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Space on Tue, 12 Jul 2022 16:53:10 GMT]]>@Tez

@Selira said in Space:

@Jennkryst three body problem is pretty great

Quoted for truth, and to answer the question, will give the short review later, but also spoilers because a lot of it comes in book 2 of a trilogy.

]]>https://brandmu.day/post/3351https://brandmu.day/post/3351Tue, 12 Jul 2022 16:53:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Space on Tue, 12 Jul 2022 16:52:00 GMT]]>Space is just so darn beautiful.

And mindnumbingly vast when you think about it.

]]>https://brandmu.day/post/3350https://brandmu.day/post/3350Tue, 12 Jul 2022 16:52:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Space on Tue, 12 Jul 2022 16:50:56 GMT]]>@Jennkryst said in Space:

Secondly, golly I picked the worstbest time to start reading a book full of existential dread about intergalactic sociology and which also solves the Fermi paradox.

OO what book.

Also the fact that I’m just running down the thread upvoting everyone tells you something about how I feel about space.

]]>https://brandmu.day/post/3348https://brandmu.day/post/3348Tue, 12 Jul 2022 16:50:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Space on Tue, 12 Jul 2022 16:50:34 GMT]]>@Jennkryst three body problem is pretty great

]]>https://brandmu.day/post/3347https://brandmu.day/post/3347Tue, 12 Jul 2022 16:50:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Space on Tue, 12 Jul 2022 16:50:03 GMT]]>First of all, how dare you trick me into thinking SpaceTruckGame was finally happening.

Secondly, golly I picked the worstbest time to start reading a book full of existential dread about intergalactic sociology and which also solves the Fermi paradox.

]]>https://brandmu.day/post/3346https://brandmu.day/post/3346Tue, 12 Jul 2022 16:50:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Space on Tue, 12 Jul 2022 16:49:31 GMT]]>Oh, if anyone wants higher res images, they can all be found here:

https://webbtelescope.org/resource-gallery/images

]]>https://brandmu.day/post/3345https://brandmu.day/post/3345Tue, 12 Jul 2022 16:49:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Space on Tue, 12 Jul 2022 16:47:27 GMT]]>@Pyrephox

It’s not often that we get to feel wonder like this, I think.

]]>https://brandmu.day/post/3344https://brandmu.day/post/3344Tue, 12 Jul 2022 16:47:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Space on Tue, 12 Jul 2022 16:47:24 GMT]]>@Pyrephox I teared up too

]]>https://brandmu.day/post/3343https://brandmu.day/post/3343Tue, 12 Jul 2022 16:47:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Space on Tue, 12 Jul 2022 16:45:47 GMT]]>Looking at these legit makes me tear up. The vastness of it, the beauty, the potential.

]]>https://brandmu.day/post/3342https://brandmu.day/post/3342Tue, 12 Jul 2022 16:45:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Space on Tue, 12 Jul 2022 16:41:18 GMT]]>@Pavel Nah, I want to see the previous universe before this one.

]]>https://brandmu.day/post/3338https://brandmu.day/post/3338Tue, 12 Jul 2022 16:41:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Space on Tue, 12 Jul 2022 16:46:14 GMT]]>@Testament
ETA: I have removed the gif of static, because we don’t have spoiler tags that I can find and it was a fuckin’ eyesore.

There you go. Start of the universe far back enough?

]]>https://brandmu.day/post/3336https://brandmu.day/post/3336Tue, 12 Jul 2022 16:46:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Space on Tue, 12 Jul 2022 16:40:41 GMT]]>@Testament The second image is 4.6 billion years. So that’s pretty good, I think.

]]>https://brandmu.day/post/3335https://brandmu.day/post/3335Tue, 12 Jul 2022 16:40:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Space on Tue, 12 Jul 2022 16:40:15 GMT]]>So excited and happy about these images.

]]>https://brandmu.day/post/3334https://brandmu.day/post/3334Tue, 12 Jul 2022 16:40:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Space on Tue, 12 Jul 2022 16:39:33 GMT]]>Turn this up higher, I want to see how far back into the past we can view.

rocket

]]>https://brandmu.day/post/3332https://brandmu.day/post/3332Tue, 12 Jul 2022 16:39:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Space on Tue, 12 Jul 2022 16:38:41 GMT]]>barbarella

]]>https://brandmu.day/post/3329https://brandmu.day/post/3329Tue, 12 Jul 2022 16:38:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Space on Tue, 12 Jul 2022 16:38:11 GMT]]>I’ve been watching these roll in with joy. So cool. Makes me really miss playing my NASA nerd character where I could harass people about this stuff in RP.

]]>https://brandmu.day/post/3327https://brandmu.day/post/3327Tue, 12 Jul 2022 16:38:11 GMT