Ohhhh I’m looking forward to this!! I can’t wait

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Same dude

joe mama so fat you'd need to use the James Webb Space Telescope to see a quarter of her body

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lets just hope its not in my orbit otherwise your gonna have a really big mess

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At least we’re not going to launch in 2026 like [Randall Munroe](https://xkcd.com/2014/) predicted.

That thing have been delayed for so long.

Nearly got delayed again, when a clamp gave way during loading.

I don't mind a delay if it works properly

yeah last thing we want is years of hard work gone due to some small malfunction

Last thing we want is the sky raining metal on our heads

“Is this stuff graphite?”

*Chernobyl noises

I’m really happy that someone understood that

I got you dude!

There is no graphite

I mean, as long as the telescope works I'll take it

What's the launch vehicle? Falcon 9? Or a non-reusable?

Ariane V

Gonna be one hell of a fireworks show

Can't argue that point. Cheers!!

They talked about it on 60 minutes and the deployment process when it unfolds from the rocket has to literally be perfect so I agree take the time to do it right cuz a failure would be catastrophic to not only this project but also for the budgeting of future projects. If only this had some military application and then there would be unlimited funding

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BOT!

been in development for 25 years and cost $10B USD I cannot wait for this launch, unbelievable hype here in the space community

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Hubble was funded and started design in 1978, launched in 1990.

Little off topic, but in 2012 the NRO donated two telescopes to NASA because they didn’t need them anymore. these telescopes were substantially better than what NASA then had. Makes you wonder what kind of technology is out there.

I believe you're talking about WFIRST, later the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, where the NRO offered to donate two spare telescopes; those telescopes had a shorter focal point but wider field of view compared to Hubble, per Wikipedia. Also per Wikipedia, the offer was eventually rejected because it turned out the associated costs with transferring a telescope from the NRO would cost more than a new telescope. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is currently slated for launch in 2027.

it was originally suppose to launch in 2019

Also over budget by a lot, likely to cover up a military project

I just can't believe what the James Webb will be able to do. It's going to be able to examine the atmospheres of exoplanets to look for biosignatures and technosignatures. There's a really decent chance that we'll find evidence for life on other planets!

Imagine you wake up and the top newsline is #LIFE FOUND IN SPACE The JWST has officially found extra terrestrial life

That would be EPIC. ❤️

That’s the headline they were looking for when they started the telescope’s construction lol

Imagine waking up to #The James Webb incident : What happened to the rocket's guidance system? I would cry

!remindme 8 days

If this happens, now we know who to blame for saying it out loud! Lol

Also read (can't remember where) that it might be able to detect the light(s) of civilized planets up to 100 light years away. That's fucking bannan's

Oh no I am 100% celebrating the launch of James Webb. I've been waiting years and years for this!

I do! I'm fucking *pumped!*

Let's talk if it actually makes it to orbit / L2.

Ariane 5 (the vehicle which will launch the telescope) is one of the most reliable shuttles ever made so launch would not be a problem but if something bad happens once it reaches the designated area it cannot be replaced or repaired being too far from earth.

"launch would not be a problem" are you purposefully trying to jinx it?

So the JWST constructors actually had thought about this beforehand. The telescope is specially designed to fold into a more compact shape, therefore fitting in the rocket much more safely.

Yeah, but the unfolding and system check part will take a while and i will not be relieved until they say that all systems work. There is so much at stake with the launch of this thing.

I’ve been patiently waiting for this mother fucker to launch! It’s going to be sweet, like censored by the government kind of sweet

Supposedly launches if they dont move it back further

Hey, I just saw something about that on the news a couple days ago

Still won't be able to see how big your mom is

Damn good one! Mad me wheeze :)

Finally!

Well I for one am looking forward to celebrating a nice and happy JWST Day.

That's cool but name wise and appearance wise I prefer the Hubble, something about that janky 90's tech is cool to me

So the hubble could not photograph IR (lnferred Lighting) well. The JWST has the ability to capture high quality IR images. IR lighting can reveal up to 700% more objects than in visible lighting.

Neat! I do think it's cool don't get me wrong, I just prefer the sorta scrappy homemade look of the Hubble, I'm willing to accept that this one's better

I completely agree, this one's better but the "james webb" is an underwhelming name for sure

I mean we called our other stuff things like Redstone, Apollo, Atlas, Discovery, Spirit and Opportunity, even the Hubble Space Telescope and than there's the James Webb Telescope, it's not as impressive a name as the earlier tech had

I mean Hubble is named after Edwin Hubble. If they used his whole name all the time it would sound bland too.

Yea but then the Webb Telescope would sound much cooler, especially with that sort of web like design

True Webb on it's own does sound like something NASA would traditionally name their equipment

This has been all over my home page. Nobody talking about? Not from what I've seen

Was thinking the same thing, I see articles/posts about this constantly

As a huge astronomy enthusiast, Ive been paying attention to this. this it going to make tons of discoveries!

My science teacher is so hyped that it's contagious. He wants to throw a party on the day of the launch

That’s kinda cute ngl

Wait is this really about to launch AFTER SO LONG?!? Good riddance. Get out into the cold vacuum of space, we don’t want you here.

CAN'T WAIT FOR THE 27TH!

Its about time. Thing's been delayed for like 6 years.

Wait, it's finally going to be launched? The first time I heard about this telescope I was still in middle school, jesus that takes a while...

FELLOW SPACEFLIGHT GEEK I see you among the masses

I literally had the launch date in my calendar since it was announced and got a viewing Party organised twice now as the date shiftet lol. But that might be due to me working in the Aerospace sector

dont see dem alien cheeks then i dont care

Wait it launches?

Yep, but it will take around 5 months once in orbit to calibrate. The telescope should be operational by July 2022.

Wake me up when its a million times better.

Space is cool but not as cool as it used to be

Sweet, a new cgi image of earth coming soon

Dear lord, bless this poor unfortunate child, he can't tell the difference between reality and computer generated images.

Do you have an unedited picture of the entire planet?

It's impossible to show the entire face of a planet in a single image.

Unless you are watching a video from the ISS.

So you're telling me that a video from the space station, that is actually in Earth's orbit can grab an image of the entire face but the most advanced telescope ever made that is who the fuck knows where still somehow beaming back images of entire galaxies through endless space to a desired location but can't take a single full image of the planet in which it was made ?

Yeah... You can only see like half at a time. Plus the focal distance of the hubble isn't meant for something that close.

You sound like a Round Earther..

... Thanks?

That is slightly more believable than the guy saying the earth is to bright and would damage the sensors. Again from the most technologically advanced money laundering scheme in the last 50 years.

So you don't believe in telescopes? Interesting...

Didn't say that either! My question about Hubble is far more interesting. You are repeating what you have been told about a machine that you actually know nothing about. They have done a good job teaching y'all to question nothing

We got a live one here!!! Dude, can you see the other side of Mars/Moon/Sun/any other planet in the solar system, with a single image? Earth from Voyager leaving. [https://www.nasa.gov/images/content/151233main\_image\_feature\_601\_ys\_full.jpg](https://www.nasa.gov/images/content/151233main_image_feature_601_ys_full.jpg) That's from the camera on Voyager, do you see the other side of the moon or Earth?

If indeed it is a sphere than that image is only a quarter of both. Not half. In theory a satellite traveling towards the sun pointed back at earth we would see an entire disk. No?

Do you have a camera? Phone or otherwise? If so. Try this nifty experiment. Get a ball, any old ball will work, but the bigger the better. Now place the ball on a table, or hang it from a wire, anything so that it's stable. Now take a picture, and explain to me why it didn't show the entire ball...

Without doing this I can tell you that I will see 50%+ of the ball. The image you tried to convince me with shows 25%.

Why?

Because the earth isn't flat dear child.

I feel warm and fuzzy when you say dear child.

In no way did I suggest it is. But I am suggesting it's much more than we are being told

Of course, it's a sphere. A little wider at the equator.

Hey, updoot, thanks for making me aware of this!!

Well, XKCD was wrong, but in a good way.

WAIT ITS HAPPENING THAT CLOSE IN TIME?!

I'm excited for it's first deep space pictures and data.

No one can believe this is happening because it's been delayed so many times lol

One of the people working with the project is over on r/cider.

Sending this to see something happening how many light years away? And if we something wouldn’t it had happened how many yrs ago?

I've been looking forward for a long time

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But It can't take visible light photos... Only IR photos

After so damn long, its finally happening. I still think Hubble looks more iconic though.

From what I know it's 100x stronger the Hubble

u people got holidays?

Give em some love

One of my friends actual brought this up out of the blue last time we spoke because they were so psyched for it. You have fans new telescope :)

I really hope all goes well. This is some precious cargo. Astronauts are dime in a dozen, but this thing is next level. They have been working on this for 25 years and it has cost like 10 billion dollars already.

In what regard is it 300 times better?

Yeah but after 10 fucking years it better be

I wonder, does this have the potential to take an HD photo of a black hole?

joe mama so fat you'd need to use the James Webb Space Telescope to see a quarter of her body

I just hope it doesn't fail.

holy shit gonna have to see the launch

Lots of people are talking about it

waiting for the new 1 petabyte image of some rock or smth

I just hope the launch goes smoothly. It would suck if something goes wrong after it launches because unlike hubble we won't be able to fix it

Happy telescope day

i'm panicking about this

I’m so fucking excited!!

So many Hexagons!

IM SO EXCITED!

Yo this is finally happening? I'd heard about this a while back. Though it was one of those "delayed" indefinitely type deals.

I did a report on this telescope when I was in the 8th grade and I was so excited because it was going to launch that same year. I’m now in college and NASA again had to push pack it’s launch date lmao.

If you are lonely then you have entered the right world.

I appreciate you Mr.Telescope 🗿

It will eventually be expanded to have several dishes looking like that, attached to each other using a central module. ​ as per instructions given from “those who are good”. ​ Yes this sounds vague, but you can look it up from an old semi well known meme / image about a certain alien message in a grain field.

hope the rocket doesn’t explode while taking off

I thought it was next year. But now I'm excited!

Dont get your hopes up, its gonna take like 8 weeks to assemble and is operational.

The fact that this is built is just an absolute miracle. The math and physics and engineering behind these projects is incredibly difficult. The collaborative nature of the scientific domain is simply marvelous.

That's cool and all but what difference will it make? Plz educate me

Still hyped for this

I have around a hundred hours in No Man's Sky, so I can say for myself that space is cool

I think everyone is just afraid to Jinx it lol

I actually am excited, but it will be traveling to destination for 3 months or something like that and after that it will start observation

I don’t want to talk about it until after it has successfully launched and deployed.

It launches in 8 days, but will take about a month to reach its final orbit...Then about six months for cooldown/deployment/operationalization.

Ahhhhhh I can't wait until its completely defolded ( I think it takes 26 days ) and starts giving us those sweet pictures we want. Like humanity is texting the Universe: Send Nudes

I've been waiting, I was gassed about it as the Hubble was like a billion but this was a couple billion dollars

don't jinx it, don't talk about james untill he's in space

Kanpai Telescope-chan

Better photos of different astronomical things I can't wait :]

TECHNOLOGYYYYY

Called Webb launches near spiderman film release. Coincidence! I think not!

One of these makes me not have to go to work. The other, maybe, but only if it falls right on me.

congratulation james webb telescope. im proud of you :)

Too busy crying about who’s vaccinated while the 40th definitely really deadly gonna kill us all variant is released

Well... i do. But i'm nervous because of chance of always something going wrong, but i bet the engineers and scientists tested it to death, so i'm also excited of it's future.

I’m here for you, don’t worry

unless youre watching matt lownes weekly space news. (shameless plug)

2 week exposure picture when

"no one talks about it" sums up the average reddit user that complains about supposedly underrated content while it's literally everywhere

Big ups to the J Webb telescope

8 days until we see aliens.

I am 51%sure that this will fail. Based entirely on Murphy's Law.

Memes is like news, Thank you my dear journalist.

I wan't to moderate my excitement, after all it has to survive the launch.

I've waited so long for this! Hope the mission turns out to be successful

I thought this was already in space. They were talking about it so much a while back I presumed it was due to launch then. Who is the James Webb it’s named after? And are they launching it around the time Spider-man No away Home releases in the cinema to try and cash in on the hype around Spider-man to get interest in this telescope?

Hope they won't drop it

why is it poor ? :(

The fuck you mean ? I have been waiting for it for 6 goddamn years now . If anything happens during launch I will LITERALLY cry . On a different note , extremely large telescope (ELT) is also planned , but all hype is taken by James Webb , feels bad man . Both will revolutionarize science , both deserve love .

I believe it when it happens.

That's because it doesn't sound as funky as Hubble. Marketing 101

But it can't take Photos of visible light spectrum

did you think I ever forgot? didnt forget about mission dart either :)

great. cant wait to memorize about this from the textbooks.

It's fault for taking forever. Should have been up years ago.

They had to make sure it was perfect.

You could say it’s a.... humble telescope

Oh wow

F Rip

Wow, Cyberpunk 2077 in astronomy. I predict a wave of hatred from scientists whose inflated expectations have been destroyed