So, there’s a, uh, hu-person working on these images on a computer somewhere who picks what color to assign to differences between the images from various IR filters. Or maybe it’s all mathematical and based on the (guessed?) red-shift of each pixel in the image. So, it? generates a new picture and shows that one to the team. If they all go ooh and aah then that picture goes to the press conference.
Good thing Nasa believes in God with a capital G. Jesus.
I’m going to keep my eye out for your posts in the future. I’m looking forward to learning more from you. Hopefully, there are other topics of which you have a similar level of understanding and you will be able to educate us on those as well. It will be fascinating reading. In the meantime, I’ll just have to content myself with contemplating these horrible JWST images.
Sarcasm, I’ve heard of it.
How do they know that is how it looked “4.6 billion years ago”. When there was no one there to see it 4.6 billion years ago. Like the big bang theory it is only a theory some ones best guess with no real fact of proof.
To God give the Glory of creation!
“Like the big bang theory it is only a theory some ones best guess with no real fact of proof.”
The “fact of proof” is in the palm of your hand. If the Big Bang theory was wrong your cell-phone would not work. That’s the beauty of scientific theories - the good ones answer questions and fill in the gaps of seemingly unrelated fields.
They know how it looked 4.6 billion years ago because they can do the math. So can you! And there WAS somebody there (here) to see it, for instance anybody who looked at the picture above.
For instance if you’re on an ILS, on final, and crossing the outer marker at 5 miles. Assuming it’s VFR conditions so you can see the end of the runway, and knowing that light travels at about 186,000 miles per second, when you cross the outer marker, the light from the end of the runway needed 0.0000269 seconds to reach your eyes. So in that case you are seeing the runway as it looked 0.0000269 seconds ago.
Or if you look at the moon, you’re seeing it as it looked about 1.3 seconds ago. I’m going to assume you can follow along here. So instead of being 0.0000269 seconds away like the runway on a 5 mile final, SMACS 0723 is a bit further out, so it takes 4.6 billion years for the light to get here.
Pretty simple math, even for a pilot. No need for bible passages, or sarcasm, just second grade multiplication and division.
Last year there was talk of moving that “Sun in Fun” airshow.Is that still in the works?
I don’t think they can… everything is there. The place is set up for teaching the kids there. But Amazon makes it un-camp-able now. With the late night plane circling… and 5 AM Amazon flights. I don’t know what they were thinking putting Amazon there besides money.
The show has to stop for Amazon.
Someone does need to set up a more central show for the SouthEast like near Atlanta. But there is no facility large enough. Maybe central or South GA? Alabama?
Beech Museum in Tennessee wasn’t bad for AOPA. Good space.