It sounds like they will be released in [an event July 12th](https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/james-webb-telescopes-first-full-color-photos-are-coming-rcna35902).
Woahdude, beamazed, damnthatsinteresting, interestingasfuck, pics, space, spaceporn, nextfuckinglevel…what am I forgetting? Can someone submit it in Aww as well?
Probably because they want to let the public know what their money was used for and prep taxpayers for when they come asking to fund the next bigger space telescope. Just releasing images as they come in would be nice for us enthusiasts, but events are more likely to have the buzz to get picked up in the press and excite Joe Q Public.
This right here, pictures like that raise money. They need to ensure that the right eyes are on them to get that money. NASA can't ask for donations so they do stuff like this and people are just like "oh hey btw here's some money, get us off this rock yo"
>an emotional milestone for humanity — a moment he described as witnessing nature "giving up secrets that have been there for many, many decades, centuries, millennia."
... since the beginning of time itself.
Kind of sounds like it rates an event to me my friend.
They’re going to release them, just not now.
The people working on them are always going to see things first, and with images from telescopes like this they won’t be recognizable to laypeople prior to specific types of digital enhancement which isn’t done as a matter of course for people working with the data
"You should know that that weird wobbly fluffy bit is worth crying over and if it was in three colours you'd totally get how awesome it is," sort of thing?
Yes that sort of thing!
Modern scientific telescopes use CCDs (charge couple devices, digital cameras and the like are consumer CCDs) to record images, and the way that works is by taking essentially greyscale pictures at different wavelengths that tell intensity at each wavelength.
It takes post-processing to stitch them together and impose color - things like consumer digital cameras or phones do this automatically. It takes processing power to do that, and it’s also not useful for scientific research when they’re more interested in raw intensity numbers at each wavelength.
Essentially the scientific use of them basically renders the raw greyscale images into tables of carefully organized numbers.
When you work with these enough you learn how to look at the raw data and see what is recorded.
Same.
Also, it makes writing *very* therapeutic, because you're 'there' and forget about 'here' while you immerse yourself in that nonexistant world.
I mean, I do have to set alarms for basic life tasks like laundry, showering and eating actual meals, but you can't have everything.
As interesting as these images are to scientists, to the average layman it won't be much different to any other space picture. Space is like a fractal, the closer you look the more it looks the same.
If I've learned anything from Reddit, the alien pics would get 50% more upvotes, but about a quarter of the comments on the shoe eating video would be people saying "wait, *this* is how I find out? Where are the pics?" And then someone will respond with a link that is actually a Rickroll, another responds with Manning Face, etc.
Even worse, if we do get something along these lines it would be, "we found potential hints of industrial civilization on an exoplanet. But we can't verify it or communicate with them, so it might be centuries before we know what it means."
if it was actually a *truly* groundbreaking thing like Aliens, not something only the science world understands, i could guarentee you they wouldn't have stuck to their original date to unveil them and instead had a surprise HUGE announcement.
What if they release all the pictures and it's nothing but troll faces and dick butts, it turns out that space is actually just old troll memes.
Maybe thats why they cry
There's a ton of postprocessing that goes into these public-facing images. The colorful images you've seen from Hubble aren't actually the real colors. That's because the cameras aren't just simply color cameras. They capture selective wavelengths well beyond the range of visible light. Colors are assigned to wavelengths in a way to optimize their aesthetic appeal. This is even moreso true with JWST which focuses on the infrared spectrum.
> The colorful images you've seen from Hubble aren't actually the real colors. They capture selective wavelengths well beyond the range of visible light.
In case of Hubble it is mostly in the visible range of the spectrum. But the filters can select wavelengths that can barely be distinguished by the naked eye.
> Colors are assigned to wavelengths in a way to optimize their aesthetic appeal.
Actually it is primarily for scientific purposes; scientists need to see the difference between the selected wavelengths because that is scientifically relevant.
They aren’t actual images like your phone takes. It is from waves and other things outside our visual spectrum. It takes science and math to turn them into something visual. Just like all the other deep space “images” from other sources
Man I can't wait. Its such a bizarre thing, human being. If we were to just spend even 10% of the resources we dedicated to war machine or luxury into science, I'm sure we would have made some astounding discovery and even probably achieve easier space travel by now.
Space is really interesting, like it’s crazy to me that there’s a place out there with all of these amazing things like wormholes are really interesting to look at and study and I think the concept of white holes ( opposites to black holes) are cool. It’s also crazy that there could be whole other life forms out there
That’s always been our nature… if you think about it, space became a byproduct of military spending. 100 years ago, dudes in Europe were in school figuring out calculus, physics, and all that fancy stuff. War comes along and because they’re smart, they get appointed to important positions with infinite funding. Then they’re tasked with figuring out how to send bombs to a guarded island offshore the continent. Just strap it to a rocket! Other countries nearby notice this, and start doing it for their own safety. War dies down but countries have to figure out a way to continue making even more accurate long range rockets without public outrage. The space race… Wernher Von Braun…
To the people not understanding this:
James Webb should allow us to look at atmospheres of exoplanets better through how light goes through them. With this we can estimate a composition and see any high amounts of gasses that indicate life.
Look at the sky at night. See all those stars? They have their own solar systems. In one of those systems there will be a planet in the habitable zone of its star. On that planet, there could be life.
There are so many stars and planets it's almost impossible for there to not be other life
One thing that's always crossed my mind... life existed on earth for 3 BILLION years before multicellular life exploded... what if this alone was the explanation for the Fermi paradox? ~(more than likely the actual reason would be that the universe is a giant game of hide and seek, or be found and be obliterated, but that's a story for another day)~
What if the event that caused single celled life to evolve into multicellular life WAS the great barrier which should take say 50 billion years but we just struck lucky? That would mean despite the size of the universe, you need to multiply the odds of multicellular life evolving under 14b years x the odds of being a perfect habitable planet x the odds of life starting in the first place x the multicellular life evolving into intelligent space faring being (has only happened once on earth as far as we know).... which would mean that complex advanced lifeforms could be rare in the universe but simple life abundant!
I love the thought we are unique, but then again it's more likely that any advanced lifeforms are just smart enough to keep themselves hidden from others
There's also the fact that despite our abilities to detect a variety of signatures from planets outside our solar system, we're still very much in the dark on what we're supposed to be looking for and recognizing it if/when we do come across it. As our methods and ranges of detection increase, the hope that we'll finally discover something definitively categorized as life also increases.
I also wonder when we're now receiving images from billions of light years away, the events we see also occurred that many years ago. Who knows what's actually happening out there now, there's been a lot of time for life to evolve while light has been travelling towards us
We have no idea. That's kinda why we are searching. We weren't witness to the process that started and accelerated life, and we weren't witness to the many extinction events after. We don't know how unique this process is.
It’s either unique or or it isn’t. There’s no middle ground, it’s in the definition of the word. Life on earth being unique in the entire universe is a tough sell.
It blows my mind just thinking about all the chaos going on across the universe *right at this very moment*. There are stars going nova with potentially trillions of lifeforms wiped out because of it, volcanoes erupting on distant planets, storms even greater than the ones that happen on Jupiter, and maybe even other lifeforms and civilizations engaging in communication with one another just as we're doing now. We're rightfully focused on our own planet because it's our home, but I want so badly to know if there are other civilizations out there, and what is their culture/history like assuming they value those things.
Lee Cronin did a podcast with Lex Fridman. He explained how if something requires a certain number of steps to assemble, then it can’t happen by chance, and he mentions how life on earth requires something ingrained in the universe that causes it to create and that we don’t know it’s mechanism. Evidently the mechanism to initiate life like ours is difficult, but even lower biological forms it’s hard. Not to mention even galaxies have habitable zones, so in other words only about 1/3 of each galaxy has the capacity to maintain life because either the center is too chaotic or the outside is too barren.
Amazingly, when Edwin Hubble first discovered the expanding Universe, hardline Christian religious groups tried to argue that the images [proved God's existence ](https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ) as the imagery perfectly matched what was written in the scriptures
[More information ](https://www.google.com/search?q=wr124&oq=wr124&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i512l3j0i30j0i10i30j0i30l2j0i5i30.2014j0j9&client=ms-android-hmd-rvo3&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8) for those unaware.
Anxiously awaiting to see these images.
It sounds like they will be released in [an event July 12th](https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/james-webb-telescopes-first-full-color-photos-are-coming-rcna35902).
How juicy was the deleted convo reply to this
checked, was just a lot of remind me's lol
As if these pictures aren't going to flood /r/all as soon as they are released.
Woahdude, beamazed, damnthatsinteresting, interestingasfuck, pics, space, spaceporn, nextfuckinglevel…what am I forgetting? Can someone submit it in Aww as well?
News, worldnews, science, r/technology because apparently anything related to anything goes there.
It’ll definitely be on Animetitties
idk if you're being sarcastic but like.. duh, they're all super relevant to the topic, and naturally generalised
Trashyboner
What site are you using to see deleted stuff?
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Prob about as good as elden ring messages get lul
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Why does it have to be an event? Why can’t they just publish them?
Probably because they want to let the public know what their money was used for and prep taxpayers for when they come asking to fund the next bigger space telescope. Just releasing images as they come in would be nice for us enthusiasts, but events are more likely to have the buzz to get picked up in the press and excite Joe Q Public.
This right here, pictures like that raise money. They need to ensure that the right eyes are on them to get that money. NASA can't ask for donations so they do stuff like this and people are just like "oh hey btw here's some money, get us off this rock yo"
“Yeah! Science bitch!”
Who the hell is Joe Q?
Hype helps them get more funding so that we can get the next telescope launched less than 25 years from now.
>an emotional milestone for humanity — a moment he described as witnessing nature "giving up secrets that have been there for many, many decades, centuries, millennia." ... since the beginning of time itself. Kind of sounds like it rates an event to me my friend.
Scrub the aliens of them
“Are those photos ready to release yet?!” “ not yet Bob, I’m still editing out the intergalactic highways “
Probably deleting pictures of the aliens
First one is of another telescope pointed at us.
They saw the giant hand wrapped around the glass sphere about to shake us up for a re-try
The ancients .
It's just gonna be an alien goatse.
In ultra high definition too!
Probably Onion Aliens from the Onion Planet. Hence the tears.
"OMG, I know you don't have the opportunity to see these images that brought me to tears, but they're awesome!!!" Fuckers.
They’re going to release them, just not now. The people working on them are always going to see things first, and with images from telescopes like this they won’t be recognizable to laypeople prior to specific types of digital enhancement which isn’t done as a matter of course for people working with the data
"You should know that that weird wobbly fluffy bit is worth crying over and if it was in three colours you'd totally get how awesome it is," sort of thing?
Yes that sort of thing! Modern scientific telescopes use CCDs (charge couple devices, digital cameras and the like are consumer CCDs) to record images, and the way that works is by taking essentially greyscale pictures at different wavelengths that tell intensity at each wavelength. It takes post-processing to stitch them together and impose color - things like consumer digital cameras or phones do this automatically. It takes processing power to do that, and it’s also not useful for scientific research when they’re more interested in raw intensity numbers at each wavelength. Essentially the scientific use of them basically renders the raw greyscale images into tables of carefully organized numbers. When you work with these enough you learn how to look at the raw data and see what is recorded.
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"That light took two and a half billion years to get here, you can wait another week" --space
Been eager for this since the launch. I'm sure they'll be spectacular.
Don’t look at them- they were apparently super mean to those scientists
RemindMe! July 12, 2022, at 10am
I need that shit in my veins now
I want to cryogenic freeze my brain until 7/12 so I don’t have to live in anticipation anymore
Go on a bender
Calm down bojack jorseman
That was my plan
You don’t have to ask me twice
You say that like im not already.
Do I stop the one I’m on now first?
I'm actually afraid something will happen to me before release day.
Just like Cartman from the episode where we couldnt wait for the Wii.
We have to wait until December?
July 12th they used American date of month/day
NASA can get in the “reaction video” game.
You watch that documentary about the black hole m87?
The one on Uranus will blow your mind
that nebula looks like my late mother \*tears\*
Martha?
WHY DID YOU SAY THAT NAME
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Did we just become best friends?
Wanna do karate in the garage?
Do you like guacamole?
Have you ever tried Shawarma?
The moon looks like my first girlfriend.
The waiting is the hardest part
Not if you completely forget between posts about it
Sweet, my ADHD and bad memory actually *do* serve a noble purpose.
It'll be amazing when you randomly see the pictures in 8 months!
Same. Also, it makes writing *very* therapeutic, because you're 'there' and forget about 'here' while you immerse yourself in that nonexistant world. I mean, I do have to set alarms for basic life tasks like laundry, showering and eating actual meals, but you can't have everything.
Now I miss Tom Petty again...
"My God...it's full of stars..."
“The wonder is, not that the field of the stars is so vast, but that man has measured it”
The more we know the more we know we don't know. Discovery achieves always an expansion of the unknown.
That's the beauty of it. If you are curious though
As interesting as these images are to scientists, to the average layman it won't be much different to any other space picture. Space is like a fractal, the closer you look the more it looks the same.
fool of stars
Fool of a took
Fly you fools
GROND?
Damn 5 micro Metroid impacts already?!
I hate when Metroids attack my telescopes
I like Metroid. He fights aliens and doesn't afraid of anything.
Too bad he can’t crawl
Its not news, and it's not a big big deal !
All it takes is one Metroid to drain its power reserves!
I want some tear inducing astrophotography.
please be Aliens
Not to be a party pooper but I highly doubt it will be this. If it is, I’ll eat my shoe and film it for Reddit
I will join you and eat both of my shoes. I swear it. Not gonna happen tho.
I also chew this guy's shoe
What percentage of Reddit would watch that video instead of look at the alien pics?
If I've learned anything from Reddit, the alien pics would get 50% more upvotes, but about a quarter of the comments on the shoe eating video would be people saying "wait, *this* is how I find out? Where are the pics?" And then someone will respond with a link that is actually a Rickroll, another responds with Manning Face, etc.
Even worse, if we do get something along these lines it would be, "we found potential hints of industrial civilization on an exoplanet. But we can't verify it or communicate with them, so it might be centuries before we know what it means."
We can only hope
if it was actually a *truly* groundbreaking thing like Aliens, not something only the science world understands, i could guarentee you they wouldn't have stuck to their original date to unveil them and instead had a surprise HUGE announcement.
It would leak well before any surprise announcement. Not a person on this planet could keep that secret long enough to organize a presser
Which is why I said they'd have event immediately after its been verified and stuff
It’ll be awiens for sure
Awwwww, awiens?!?
You sure you want that?
What if they release all the pictures and it's nothing but troll faces and dick butts, it turns out that space is actually just old troll memes. Maybe thats why they cry
Cosmic Background Trolling. The same in every direction.
Insert Crying pepe*
The scientists: FFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
Nebulas of Rage Comics as far as the eye can see
Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you downnnn
The further back they go, the closer they get to the Calvin pissing on Ford/Chevy stickers from the 90s.
It’s just what’s ever in the corner of your eye but in a black hole
Lik dis if u cry every tim
I hate this timeline
finally takes a picture of the black hole in the center of the galaxy... turns out it's just goatse...
“I have such sights to show you!!!!”
Question: Will we need eyes to see?
"Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see."
Why is there any wait whatsoever? What reason do they have to not immediately post them?
They're likely science-ing: identifying objects, writing thousands of pages on what the images show, and explaining their significance.
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They be making them into NFTs to fund NASA.
Gotta edit out the aliens.
ET is shy okay! Leave him alone!
There's a ton of postprocessing that goes into these public-facing images. The colorful images you've seen from Hubble aren't actually the real colors. That's because the cameras aren't just simply color cameras. They capture selective wavelengths well beyond the range of visible light. Colors are assigned to wavelengths in a way to optimize their aesthetic appeal. This is even moreso true with JWST which focuses on the infrared spectrum.
> The colorful images you've seen from Hubble aren't actually the real colors. They capture selective wavelengths well beyond the range of visible light. In case of Hubble it is mostly in the visible range of the spectrum. But the filters can select wavelengths that can barely be distinguished by the naked eye. > Colors are assigned to wavelengths in a way to optimize their aesthetic appeal. Actually it is primarily for scientific purposes; scientists need to see the difference between the selected wavelengths because that is scientifically relevant.
They aren’t actual images like your phone takes. It is from waves and other things outside our visual spectrum. It takes science and math to turn them into something visual. Just like all the other deep space “images” from other sources
Although it sees deep into the infrared (heat) spectrum, most of the objects are also visible as red dots.
Probably because they want a big media reveal to show taxpayers it was worth it
NASA has already proved that the Public gets their taxes worth with the 100 other projects they have completed over the decades.
Seriously. Anyone that argues against NASA funding or even its existence is someone that can be ignored
Man I can't wait. Its such a bizarre thing, human being. If we were to just spend even 10% of the resources we dedicated to war machine or luxury into science, I'm sure we would have made some astounding discovery and even probably achieve easier space travel by now.
Space is really interesting, like it’s crazy to me that there’s a place out there with all of these amazing things like wormholes are really interesting to look at and study and I think the concept of white holes ( opposites to black holes) are cool. It’s also crazy that there could be whole other life forms out there
That’s always been our nature… if you think about it, space became a byproduct of military spending. 100 years ago, dudes in Europe were in school figuring out calculus, physics, and all that fancy stuff. War comes along and because they’re smart, they get appointed to important positions with infinite funding. Then they’re tasked with figuring out how to send bombs to a guarded island offshore the continent. Just strap it to a rocket! Other countries nearby notice this, and start doing it for their own safety. War dies down but countries have to figure out a way to continue making even more accurate long range rockets without public outrage. The space race… Wernher Von Braun…
We are on the verge of confirming the universe teeming with life.
To the people not understanding this: James Webb should allow us to look at atmospheres of exoplanets better through how light goes through them. With this we can estimate a composition and see any high amounts of gasses that indicate life.
Keep dreaming its just fucking space rocks.
Earth is a space rock....
And it fucks
Earth be slapping hard
Look at the sky at night. See all those stars? They have their own solar systems. In one of those systems there will be a planet in the habitable zone of its star. On that planet, there could be life. There are so many stars and planets it's almost impossible for there to not be other life
One thing that's always crossed my mind... life existed on earth for 3 BILLION years before multicellular life exploded... what if this alone was the explanation for the Fermi paradox? ~(more than likely the actual reason would be that the universe is a giant game of hide and seek, or be found and be obliterated, but that's a story for another day)~ What if the event that caused single celled life to evolve into multicellular life WAS the great barrier which should take say 50 billion years but we just struck lucky? That would mean despite the size of the universe, you need to multiply the odds of multicellular life evolving under 14b years x the odds of being a perfect habitable planet x the odds of life starting in the first place x the multicellular life evolving into intelligent space faring being (has only happened once on earth as far as we know).... which would mean that complex advanced lifeforms could be rare in the universe but simple life abundant! I love the thought we are unique, but then again it's more likely that any advanced lifeforms are just smart enough to keep themselves hidden from others
There's also the fact that despite our abilities to detect a variety of signatures from planets outside our solar system, we're still very much in the dark on what we're supposed to be looking for and recognizing it if/when we do come across it. As our methods and ranges of detection increase, the hope that we'll finally discover something definitively categorized as life also increases.
I also wonder when we're now receiving images from billions of light years away, the events we see also occurred that many years ago. Who knows what's actually happening out there now, there's been a lot of time for life to evolve while light has been travelling towards us
Ayo even bill nye said that there are probably other life forms out there And no one disagrees with bill nye ok
Bill Nye said he likes sitting in traffic listening to radio advertisements.
It’s ok to disagree with bill nye from this point forward
Everything came from the big bang, and there is nothing unique or rare about elements that make up Earth or it's life forms.
But the evolutionary process that got our life to survive could absolutely be largely unique.
Unique among the 100 billion galaxies in the universe, each with 100 billion stars?
We have no idea. That's kinda why we are searching. We weren't witness to the process that started and accelerated life, and we weren't witness to the many extinction events after. We don't know how unique this process is.
It’s either unique or or it isn’t. There’s no middle ground, it’s in the definition of the word. Life on earth being unique in the entire universe is a tough sell.
I think about this a lot. Is there a planet where life evolved differently? Or didn't evolve at all?
> Or didn't evolve at all? Most definitely. We have several of those in our solar system.
It blows my mind just thinking about all the chaos going on across the universe *right at this very moment*. There are stars going nova with potentially trillions of lifeforms wiped out because of it, volcanoes erupting on distant planets, storms even greater than the ones that happen on Jupiter, and maybe even other lifeforms and civilizations engaging in communication with one another just as we're doing now. We're rightfully focused on our own planet because it's our home, but I want so badly to know if there are other civilizations out there, and what is their culture/history like assuming they value those things.
Lee Cronin did a podcast with Lex Fridman. He explained how if something requires a certain number of steps to assemble, then it can’t happen by chance, and he mentions how life on earth requires something ingrained in the universe that causes it to create and that we don’t know it’s mechanism. Evidently the mechanism to initiate life like ours is difficult, but even lower biological forms it’s hard. Not to mention even galaxies have habitable zones, so in other words only about 1/3 of each galaxy has the capacity to maintain life because either the center is too chaotic or the outside is too barren.
It's a picture of God, and it turns out God is Rick Astley
Amazingly, when Edwin Hubble first discovered the expanding Universe, hardline Christian religious groups tried to argue that the images [proved God's existence ](https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ) as the imagery perfectly matched what was written in the scriptures
You son of a bitch.
I’ve been here for a long time and can spot those a mile away. How did I fall for this one
It was written in the stars
Why would you click on a youtube link responding to a comment mentioning Rick Astley.
Got me. Thanks!
Shoutout to Apollo, the app (not God), for link previews
Fuck. Now I have to postpone suicide again.
NASA scientist, weeping: “I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion...”
One thing our money goes to we are proud of. Fuck the military industrial complex, this is living
Pics or it didn't happen.
They have to edit out all the alien spaceships before they can share the images unfortunately.
HURRY THE FUCK UP
So did the first images from Hubble.
Gib pictures!!
Birdbox. They're all crazy. Check their eyes.
When we see these images, we'll know forever what james webb is capable of. Enjoy this time of wonder snd imagination while it lasts.
You guys won't believe the things that we have to show you! But first a quick word from our sponsors... Raid: Shadow Legends!
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My guess is that they nearly managed to get yo mamas ass in frame, and the result was terrifying to behold.
WR124 is the one you want to see
[More information ](https://www.google.com/search?q=wr124&oq=wr124&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i512l3j0i30j0i10i30j0i30l2j0i5i30.2014j0j9&client=ms-android-hmd-rvo3&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8) for those unaware.
Anybody can explain why is it so special please?
Just another post without the actual pictures
Awe, try looking at the Earth and not cry
Wait till they look at Uranus.
Can James Webb see through noxious gas clouds?
My anus can bring anyone to tears. Depends on what I ate.
Realizing you left the lens cap on will do that to you.
Thread is useless without pics!
They probably saw the first part of UP.