Damn, I'm going to miss the launch. Fingers crossed everything goes to plan or it's $10bn down the shitter!
Astronomy & Space Exploration
- Thread starter MrMarcello
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76 mins to launch.
Where can you watch this live??
Cheers dude!
it's very cloudy 
And in English?
Loving all the French involvement. Heads exploding in every red state.
please don't explode.
I’ll take “thoughts of a virgin” for $500 please Alex
Well it didn't blow up yet.
The French commentary is so much better/more intense 
Watching with my kids. So crazy to me that I watched the Challenger explode in my primary school classroom.
No explosions!!! next big moment is the solar array
What's with it cutting to a computer graphic so quick? I know it was cloudy but they could've had an on board shot.
maybe no cameras?
woooooo lets goooooo
getting power from the array
beautiful pictures there of the final stage separation!
Visually it was a bit of an anticlimax because of the weather etc but what a relief to see it get up there in one piece!
It's incredible. I cannot even fathom the genius behind this. I was blown away even with the little chart showing how spot on they were with the launch projection to that point
My dumb arse brain was sat here thinking how cool it would be if planes could fly "even" a quarter as quick as that telescope did during the launch
My dumb arse brain was sat here thinking how cool it would be if planes could fly "even" a quarter as quick as that telescope did during the launch
It really is. I sat watching it reflecting on my abysmal effort at building a Hot Wheels set for a 3yr old at 2am last night. Albeit I did have a few whiskeys in me but I was feeling similar levels of stress as those in NASA
So unbelievably cool. Will surely go down as one of the great feats of human engineering if it does work six months from now. Can’t wait to see some of the images.
They did it! Astonishing.
Best Xmas present ever. Got some cool pics of tv after final separation
Six months? Jees that's longer than I thought. Do we know what it will pointed towards first? Obviously being infrared telescope, nasa will colour adjust the images for visable light where required. Apparently the chief engineer for the project has 100 hours of dedicated time on James Webb to use at his discretion. The last time that was done with hubble I.e. use of discretionary time we got the simply stunning Hubble Deep Field and Ultra Deep Field pics.
Apparently some of the discretionary time will be used to look at Uranus and Neptune. Which will be interesting.
FINALLY!!!! After so many delays. Delighted to see it has finally launched!! Now let's hope deployment has no issues. There's so much we can potentially learn if it works.
I was looking at it just now. Incredible to see - especially the footage at the end, of the telescope separating from the last part of the rocket and unfolding its solar panel. A great start!
Funnily, my daughter is hugely into all things space, but this didn't seem to impress her much at all. Too technical maybe. She just wanted to keep fidgeting with her rubix cube.
Funnily, my daughter is hugely into all things space, but this didn't seem to impress her much at all. Too technical maybe. She just wanted to keep fidgeting with her rubix cube.
As far as I know I don't think it's been revealed, but the second part of the following talk gives a good idea of what interesting things JWST will be looking at during its lifetime.
Pointing a massive gold telescope at Uranus doesn't sound very discreet...
Yea same I said what's that luca, he said a space ship!I was looking at it just now. Incredible to see - especially the footage at the end, of the telescope separating from the last part of the rocket and unfolding its solar panel. A great start!
Funnily, my daughter is hugely into all things space, but this didn't seem to impress her much at all. Too technical maybe. She just wanted to keep fidgeting with her rubix cube.
That's not wrong though!
Also: my daughter got a Lego space shuttle for Christmas (no, not the huge Discovery one!), and it includes a little satellite that it can deploy. Once she had out it together and started playing with it, of course the satellite became Webb anyway. She definitely does care!
"All CG! Its so difficult to render them that you can see the frame rates dropping when the details increased." Easy!
That's mint congratulations. Hope my boys will be the sameThat's not wrong though!
Also: my daughter got a Lego space shuttle for Christmas (no, not the huge Discovery one!), and it includes a little satellite that it can deploy. Once she had out it together and started playing with it, of course the satellite became Webb anyway. She definitely does care!
For a dummy: What is so special about this?
Can anyone explain what he means at 55:38 when he says "with a telescope like that, you can resolve everything in the universe to about 300 light years"?